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A liquid-xenon calorimeter for the detection of electromagnetic showers

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In this paper, the energy and spatial resolution of a 40 l liquid-xenon calorimeter was measured and the details of construction and running of such a device were discussed.
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The energy and spatial resolution of a 40 l liquid-xenon calorimeter was measured. For electrons in the energy region 1–6 GeV the resolutions are σE/E = 3.4/√E (%), σx = 4.6/√E (mm). The details of construction and running of such a device are discussed.

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Iron liquid-argon and uranium liquid-argon calorimeters for hadron energy measurement

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A large liquid-argon shower detector for an ISR experiment

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A liquid-argon ionization calorimeter for detection of electromagnetic and hadronic showers

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a liquid-argon ionization chamber, consisting of a set of eigthy 2 mm thick iron plates, is described, and a ratio of 1.2 for the electron-to-proton response is derived.
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The measurement of the spatial coordinates of high energy photons with a scintillation hodoscope spectrometer

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