Development of a honeycomb gas proportional counter array for photon multiplicity measurements in high multiplicity environment
- Majumdar, M R D
- Aggarwal, M M
- Badyal, S K
- Bhatia, V S
- Chattopadhyay, S
- Dubey, A K
- Ganti, M S
- Kumar, A
- Nayak, T K
- Mahajan, S
- Mahapatra, D P
- Mangotra, L K
- Mohanty, B
- Pal, S
- Phatak, S C
- Potukuchi, B V K S
- Raniwala, R
- Raniwala, S
- Rao, N K
- Singaraju, R N
- Sinha, Bikash
- Trivedi, M D
- Veenhof, R
- Viyogi, Y P
Publication date
January 2003
DOI Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC ISSN
0304-4289Abstract
A novel gas-based detector using large arrays of honeycomb cells has been developed and tested for use as a pre-shower photon multiplicity detector (PMD) for STAR and ALICE experiments. The appropriate cell design was arrived at using GARFIELD simulations. Prototype chambers with cell dimensions corresponding to STAR and ALICE were fabricated and tested at CERN PS and SPS. The charged particle detection efficiency and the pre-shower characteristics have been studied using pion and electron beams. 11 Refs
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