DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF THE LEAD-CONCRETE GEIGER TOWER ARRAY WITHINTHE HEGRA EXPERIMENT

Authors
RHODE W BECKER KH DAUM K FALKENBERG F FONSECA V FUNK B GREVE W HARTMANN S KRAWCZYNSKI H MAGNUSSEN N MEYER H MOLLER H ODEH T PRAHL J SAMORSKI M SAUERLAND K SCHMELE D SMARSCH E SOOTH RN WESTERHOFF S WIEBELSOOTH B
Citation
W. Rhode et al., DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF THE LEAD-CONCRETE GEIGER TOWER ARRAY WITHINTHE HEGRA EXPERIMENT, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 378(3), 1996, pp. 399-409
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
378
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
399 - 409
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1996)378:3<399:DAPOTL>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
The HEGRA experiment is a hybrid installation characterized by four di fferent types of detectors (scintillator counters, open Cherenkov coun ters, Cherenkov telescopes and Geiger towers) located within one detec tor array. The Geiger towers are built with the objective to measure t he local energy deposition and to reconstruct and identify muon tracks . In addition each tower may serve as an independent high resolution m uon flux monitor, With these properties the Geiger towers are operatin g as geometric and energetic calibration instruments for the other det ector components and as additional independent measurement instruments with respect to the gamma-hadron separation and the measurement of th e chemical composition, In this paper the design, the performance, and the basic principles of the data analysis of the lead-concrete Geiger towers are described.