Performance of a prototype BGO calorimeter in an electron beam from 2 to 50 GeV

doi:10.1016/0168-9002(87)90025-8

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volume 254, Issue 3, 1 March 1987, Pages 535-541

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Abstract

A prototype of the L3 electromagnetic calorimeter to be used at LEP and consisting of 100 tapered BGO crystals has been tested in an electron beam in the energy range of 2 to 50 GeV. The energy resolution and linearity of response have been measured, and are compared to predictions made with the GEANT Monte Carlo program.

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^∗∗: Work supported in part by the US Deparment of Energy.

^∗: On leave of absence from the Institute of High-Energy Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China.

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Performance of a prototype BGO calorimeter in an electron beam from 2 to 50 GeV

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Nucl. Instr. and Methods

CERN DD/EE/84-1

DD/85-1