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Performance study for the photon measurements of the upgraded LHCf calorimeters with Gd $_2$ SiO $_5$ (GSO) scintillators

Y. Makino
(
- Nagoya U., ISEE
)
,
A. Tiberio
(
- INFN, Florence and
- U. Florence (main)
)
,
O. Adriani
(
- INFN, Florence and
- U. Florence (main)
)
,
E. Berti
(
- INFN, Florence and
- U. Florence (main)
)
,
L. Bonechi
(
- INFN, Florence
)

Mar 21, 2017

22 pages

Published in:

JINST 12 (2017) 03, P03023

Published: Mar 21, 2017

DOI:

10.1088/1748-0221/12/03/P03023

Experiments:

CERN-LHC-LHCf

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The Large Hadron Collider forward (LHCf) experiment was motivated to understand the hadronic interaction processes relevant to cosmic-ray air shower development. We have developed radiation-hard detectors with the use of Gd

_2

SiO

_5

(GSO) scintillators for proton-proton

\sqrt{s} = 13

TeV collisions. Calibration of such detectors for photon measurement has been completed at the CERN SPS T2-H4 line in 2015 using electron beams of 100–250 GeV and muon beams of 150–250 GeV. After the channel-by-channel absolute energy calibration, the energy resolution of the calorimeters is confirmed to be better than 3% for electrons with energy above 100 GeV. The position dependence of the energy scale of the calorimeters was reduced to the level of 1% after the corrections for scintillator nonuniformity and the shower leakage effect. The position resolution of the new shower imaging detector, a GSO-bar hodoscope interleaved in the calorimeter, was 100

\mu

m for 200 GeV electrons. The experimental results are well explained by Monte Carlo simulations. We have confirmed that the new detectors meet the requirement of the LHCf experiment at

\sqrt{s} = 13

TeV.

calorimeter
energy resolution
energy: calibration
electron: irradiation
muon: irradiation
scintillation counter
LHC-F
photon: detector
performance
hodoscope

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