We describe and discuss the operation, calibration and stability of the EAS-TOP calorimeter (Campo Imperatore, National Gran Sasso Laboratories), a large area hadron and muon detector devoted to cosmic-ray physics. It consists of iron slabs (for a total thickness of 818 g cm(-2)) and Iarocci tubes as sensitive layers, operating in the streamer mode and the "quasi proportional" regime. Using a model describing the operation of the "quasi proportional" chambers, we derive a calibration curve in the energy range 50-5000 GeV, whose reliability has been indirectly checked through on-site measurements, by means of an accelerator beam run (up to similar or equal to 600-700 GeV) and by comparing the model predictions on hadron shower transition curves with the data. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

The hadron calorimeter of EAS-TOP: operation, calibration and resolution / R. A., F., M., A., B., A., P., A., F., A., L., B., M., B., R., B., A. C., F., C., C., A., C., A., C., G. C., C., D'ETTORRE PIAZZOLI, B., G. D., S., W., F., P., G., P. L., G., A., G., Iacovacci, M., et al.. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - STAMPA. - 420:(1999), pp. 117-131.

The hadron calorimeter of EAS-TOP: operation, calibration and resolution

D'ETTORRE PIAZZOLI, BENEDETTO;IACOVACCI, MICHELE;
1999

Abstract

We describe and discuss the operation, calibration and stability of the EAS-TOP calorimeter (Campo Imperatore, National Gran Sasso Laboratories), a large area hadron and muon detector devoted to cosmic-ray physics. It consists of iron slabs (for a total thickness of 818 g cm(-2)) and Iarocci tubes as sensitive layers, operating in the streamer mode and the "quasi proportional" regime. Using a model describing the operation of the "quasi proportional" chambers, we derive a calibration curve in the energy range 50-5000 GeV, whose reliability has been indirectly checked through on-site measurements, by means of an accelerator beam run (up to similar or equal to 600-700 GeV) and by comparing the model predictions on hadron shower transition curves with the data. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
1999
The hadron calorimeter of EAS-TOP: operation, calibration and resolution / R. A., F., M., A., B., A., P., A., F., A., L., B., M., B., R., B., A. C., F., C., C., A., C., A., C., G. C., C., D'ETTORRE PIAZZOLI, B., G. D., S., W., F., P., G., P. L., G., A., G., Iacovacci, M., et al.. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - STAMPA. - 420:(1999), pp. 117-131.
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