Performance of PWO-II Prototype Arrays for the EMC of PANDA

Rainer Willi Novotny, Werner Döring, Valera Dormenev, P. Drexler, W. Erni, Matthias Rost, M. Steinacher, M. Thiel, Andreas Thomas

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science · 2008 · 11 citations · 7 references

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Abstract

The response function of a 3 times 3 matrix of 200-mm-long PWO-II crystals has been measured with energy-marked photons up to 675 MeV energy. For the first time the crystals were readout individually with one large area avalanche photo diode of the second generation operating at a temperature of 0degC. The reconstructed electromagnetic shower distributions show excellent energy resolutions down to 40 MeV. Reducing the temperature and increasing the light collection by an additional large-area avalanche photo diode can achieve further improvement.

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