Study of a BGO calorimeter using electron and hadron beams from 1 to 50 GeV

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Abstract

A calorimeter of 25 bismuth germanate (BGO) crystals equipped with silicon photodiode readout has been tested at the CERN SPS in the energy range 1–50 GeV. The response for electrons has been shown to be linear in this energy range and the rms resolution obtained (σEE) is approximately 1%, for E > 4 GeV. The electron/pion separation was found to be better than 1:500 in the energy range 1–20 GeV. Data on lateral and longitudinal shower development were compared with the results of a Monte Carlo simulation using the SLAC-EGS program and found to be in good agreement.

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Work supported in part by the US Department of Energy.

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On leave of absence from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Academica Sinica, Beijing, China.

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