Calorimetry for particle physics

Oct, 2003
96 pages
Published in:
  • Rev.Mod.Phys. 75 (2003) 1243-1286
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2003-075

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Abstract: (APS)
Calorimetry has become a well-understood, powerful, and versatile measurement method. Besides perfecting this technique to match increasingly demanding operation at high-energy particle accelerators, physicists are developing low-temperature calorimeters to extend detection down to ever lower energies, and atmospheric and deep-sea calorimeters to scrutinize the universe up to the highest energies. The authors summarize the state of the art, with emphasis on the physics of the detectors and innovative technologies.
  • review
  • calorimeter: electromagnetic
  • calorimeter: hadronic
  • energy resolution
  • particle identification
  • calorimeter: cryogenics
  • superconductivity: droplet
  • bolometer
  • WIMP: search for
  • double-beta decay: (0neutrino)