TY - JOUR
T1 - Signal degradation due to charge buildup in noble liquid ionization calorimeters
AU - Rutherfoord, John P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author would like to thank Howard Gordon, Theodore Bowen, David Anderson, Michael Shupe, David Rahm, Paul Mockett, Hans Paar, Gerald Abrams, Geoffrey Forden, Andrew Milder, William Frisken, Jacques Colas, William Wenzel, and William Willis for helpful conversations and/or useful references. This work was supported by Grant no. RFY9172 from the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission and Grant no. DE-FG02-85ER40213, Task B1 from the DOE.
PY - 2002/4/11
Y1 - 2002/4/11
N2 - The degradation in the signal from sampling, noble liquid, ionization calorimeters due to charge buildup from the slowly drifting positive ions was calculated. The degradation of the signal was significant in calorimeters planned for operating at high luminosity hadron colliders. The results showed that for a forward calorimeter at a distance of 5 m from the interaction point, the relative ionization rate at EM shower maximum changes.
AB - The degradation in the signal from sampling, noble liquid, ionization calorimeters due to charge buildup from the slowly drifting positive ions was calculated. The degradation of the signal was significant in calorimeters planned for operating at high luminosity hadron colliders. The results showed that for a forward calorimeter at a distance of 5 m from the interaction point, the relative ionization rate at EM shower maximum changes.
KW - Liquid argon calorimetry
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U2 - 10.1016/s0168-9002(01)01518-2
DO - 10.1016/s0168-9002(01)01518-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:6444245286
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 481
SP - 156
EP - 178
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IS - 1-3
ER -