The possibility to utilize plastic flash-chamber systems for particle identification is investigated. It is first pointed out that a many-layer system of thin-wall extruded flash cells is suitable for ionization measurements, and might be applied e.g. to a search for e/3 quarks. The development of the cascade showers in a plasttic flash calorimeter model containing 20 Pb plates 0.5 cm thick and 30 Fe plates 5 cm thick, alternated with flash chambers,is then simulated by Monte Carlo programs, for primary electrons and pions of various energies from 1 to 200 GeV. Analysis of the results of this simulation show that the detector is capable to identify muons, γ's, electrons and charged hadrons with good confidence level. © 1979.
Particle identification by plastic flash-chambers / M., Conversi; Lacava, Francesco. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS. - ISSN 0029-554X. - 161:2(1979), pp. 219-226. [10.1016/0029-554x(79)90387-2]
Particle identification by plastic flash-chambers
LACAVA, Francesco
1979
Abstract
The possibility to utilize plastic flash-chamber systems for particle identification is investigated. It is first pointed out that a many-layer system of thin-wall extruded flash cells is suitable for ionization measurements, and might be applied e.g. to a search for e/3 quarks. The development of the cascade showers in a plasttic flash calorimeter model containing 20 Pb plates 0.5 cm thick and 30 Fe plates 5 cm thick, alternated with flash chambers,is then simulated by Monte Carlo programs, for primary electrons and pions of various energies from 1 to 200 GeV. Analysis of the results of this simulation show that the detector is capable to identify muons, γ's, electrons and charged hadrons with good confidence level. © 1979.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
