Performance studies of a full-length prototype for the CASTOR forward calorimeter at the CMS experiment

Apr 30, 2010
15 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 67 (2010) 601-615
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Abstract: (Springer)
We present performance studies of a full-length prototype for the CASTOR quartz-tungsten sampling calorimeter, installed in the very forward region of the CMS experiment at the LHC. The response linearity and energy resolution, the uniformity, as w ell as the showers spatial properties in the prototype have been studied with electrons, pions and muons of various energies. A special study was also carried out for testing the light-output with a 90-degree cut of the quartz plates of the calorimeter. T he data were taken during the CASTOR test beam at CERN/SPS in 2007.
  • calorimeter
  • tungsten
  • performance
  • CMS
  • energy resolution: measured
  • electron: beam
  • electron: showers
  • pi: showers
  • showers: spatial distribution