Design and test beam studies for the CASTOR calorimeter of the CMS experiment

✍ Scribed by Peter Göttlicher

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 746 KB
• Volume: 623
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.02.203

✦ Synopsis

CASTOR is a calorimeter designed for the very forward region of the CMS experiment at the LHC: 5:2 o Zo6:6. The space inside a shielding, the radiation level (2-20 kGy) and the magnetic field (0.1-0.16 T) constrain the design. A sampling structure of tungsten and quartz plates together with a Cherenkov light readout by air filled light guides and fine mesh photomultipliers (PMT) handle this rough environment and allow a 10 l I deep calorimeter.