A preshower detector consisting of plastic scintillating plates with optical-fiber readout was tested at the Fermilab meson beamline. The detector was placed at a depth of about 1.5X(0), followed by an electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter, and exposed to positron, positively charged pion and positive muon beams with energies in the range of 5-227 GeV. Multianode phototubes, HAMAMATSU R5900-M16, were used for the photon readout. The efficiency for detecting two minimum ionizing particles with noise occupancy of < 1% was 90-100% for gains of (1-4)x 10(5). It was also found that by requiring an appropriately large signal in the preshower detector, the rate of charged pions depositing a large fraction of energy in the electromagnetic calorimeter could be reduced by a factor of 1.4-2.0 (1.4-2.8) while keeping 95% (90%) efficiency for positrons. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

A preshower detector for the CDF Plug Upgrade: test beam results

INTROZZI, GIANLUCA;
1999-01-01

Abstract

A preshower detector consisting of plastic scintillating plates with optical-fiber readout was tested at the Fermilab meson beamline. The detector was placed at a depth of about 1.5X(0), followed by an electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter, and exposed to positron, positively charged pion and positive muon beams with energies in the range of 5-227 GeV. Multianode phototubes, HAMAMATSU R5900-M16, were used for the photon readout. The efficiency for detecting two minimum ionizing particles with noise occupancy of < 1% was 90-100% for gains of (1-4)x 10(5). It was also found that by requiring an appropriately large signal in the preshower detector, the rate of charged pions depositing a large fraction of energy in the electromagnetic calorimeter could be reduced by a factor of 1.4-2.0 (1.4-2.8) while keeping 95% (90%) efficiency for positrons. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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