The hadron calorimeter of EAS-TOP: operation, calibration and resolution

Authors
Falcone, RA Aglietta, M Alessandro, B Antonioli, P Arneodo, F Bergamasco, L Bertaina, M Bertoni, R Fauth, AC Castagnoli, C Castellina, A Chiavassa, A Castagnoli, GC Piazzoli, BD Di Sciascio, G Fulgione, W Galeotti, P Ghia, PL Giuliano, A Iacovacci, M Mannocchi, G Morello, C Navarra, G Nogima, H Riccati, L Saavedra, O Tatananni, E Trinchero, GC Vallania, P Vernetto, S Vigorito, C
Citation
Ra. Falcone et al., The hadron calorimeter of EAS-TOP: operation, calibration and resolution, NUCL INST A, 420(1-2), 1999, pp. 117-131
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Spectroscopy /Instrumentation/Analytical Sciences","Instrumentation & Measurement
Journal title
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
ISSN journal
01689002 → ACNP
Volume
420
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
117 - 131
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(19990101)420:1-2<117:THCOEO>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We describe and discuss the operation, calibration and stability of the EAS -TOP calorimeter (Campo Imperatore, National Gran Sasso Laboratories), a la rge area hadron and muon detector devoted to cosmic-ray physics. It consist s of iron slabs (for a total thickness of 818 g cm(-2)) and Iarocci tubes a s sensitive layers, operating in the streamer mode and the "quasi proportio nal" regime. Using a model describing the operation of the "quasi proportio nal" chambers, we derive a calibration curve in the energy range 50-5000 Ge V, whose reliability has been indirectly checked through on-site measuremen ts, by means of an accelerator beam run (up to similar or equal to 600-700 GeV) and by comparing the model predictions on hadron shower transition cur ves with the data. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.