Electron/pion separation with the H1 LAr calorimeters

B. Andrieu, J. Bán, E. Barrelet, G. Bernardi, M. Besançon, E. Binder, H. Blume, K. Borras, V. Boudry, V. Brisson, A. Campbell, T. Carli, M. Colombo, Ch Coutures, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, M. David, L. Del Buono, B. Delcourt, M. DevelP. Dingus, A. Drescher, J. Duboc, R. Ebbinghaus, S. Egli, J. Feltesse, Z. Y. Feng, W. Flauger, M. Flieser, K. Gamerdinger, J. Gayler, L. Goerlich, M. Goldberg, R. Grässler, H. Greif, M. Haguenauer, L. Hajduk, O. Hamon, P. Hartz, R. Haydar, W. Hildesheim, N. Huot, M. A. Jabiol, A. Jacholkowska, M. Jaffre, H. Jung, C. Kiesling, H. Kolanoski, V. Korbel, M. Korn, W. Krasny, J. P. Kubenka, J. Kurzhöfer, H. Küster, J. F. Laporte, U. Lenhardt, P. Loch, D. Lüers, J. Marks, J. Martyniak, T. Merz, H. K. Nguyen, H. Oberlack, U. Obrock, C. Pascaud, S. Peters, K. Rauschnabel, P. Ribarics, M. Rietz, M. Rudowicz, V. Rusinov, N. Sahlmann, E. Sanchez, P. Schacht, V. Shekelyan, Y. Sirois, P. Staroba, H. Steiner, U. Straumann, J. Turnau, L. Urban, C. Vallee, M. Vecko, P. Verrecchia, G. Villet, D. Wegener, H. P. Wellisch, T. P. Yiou, J. Ẑáček, Ch Zeitnitz

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Abstract

The performances of the H1 liquid argon calorimeter modules for the energy measurements and identification of electrons are studied with test data taken at CERN in the energy range 5 to 166 GeV. Various electron identification estimators exploiting global or detailed shower characteristics are studied and compared. The usage of impact position measurements is also discussed. A best combination of robust shower estimators leads typically to π-misidentification probabilities in the range 1.5 to 5.0 × 10-3 at 30 GeV for 95% electron detection efficiency. This further reduces to ∼ 10-4 for these pions to be misidentified as electrons below 25 GeV.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)492-506
Number of pages15
JournalNuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A
Volume344
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 15 1994
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Instrumentation

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