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Electron Energy and Position Measurement Using Lead Scintillator Calorimeters With a New Light Collection System

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In this paper, a lead-scintillator shower counter using a flourescent radiation converter for collecting scintillation light is described, and the uniformity of energy response and the spatial resolution have been measured.
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This article is published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods.The article was published on 1979-07-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scintillation & Scintillation counter.

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Review of Particle Physics

Claude Amsler, +176 more
- 01 Jul 1996 - 
TL;DR: This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics, using data from previous editions.
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Fluctuations in Calorimetry Measurements

Ugo Amaldi
- 01 Apr 1981 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative understanding of the relations between the physics of the cascade processes and the performances of actual instruments is presented and discussed, with particular emphasis on qualitative understanding on the relationship between the cascade process and actual instruments.
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Physics of cascading shower generation and propagation in matter: principles of high-energy, ultrahigh-energy and compensating calorimetry

TL;DR: In this paper, the physics phenomena at the base of cascading processes in matter and the basic principles of calorimeters operation are reviewed at the light of data obtained from running experiments or from sets of dedicated measurements and the constraints from physics requirements.
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The Argus electron-photon calorimeter: I. Detection of low-energy electromagnetic showers

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of the ARGUS shower counters in detecting electromagnetic showers in the energy range 10 −45 MeV is reported. But the detection threshold is at least as low as 10 MeV.
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The Collection of Light from Scintillation Counters

TL;DR: A discussion of the limits imposed by thermodynamics on the collection of light from scintillation counters by photocathodes is given, and a method for concentrating the light energy to any degree is pointed out as mentioned in this paper.
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Design principles of fluorescence radiation converters

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of optical contact media, reflectors and light attenuation on the light collection performance of scintillators by systems using light conversion in fluorescent materials is discussed.
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Performance of a lead-glass electromagnetic shower detector at fermilab

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a lead-glass spectrometer system with high resolution and superior hadron rejection is described and the use of the system in triggering and in the analysis of an experiment measuring electrons in the energy range 15 to 100 GeV at Fermilab is described.
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