Design, construction, operation and performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX experiment

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• 作者：W. Anderson^e ; B. Azmoun^a ; A. Cherlin^f ; C.Y. Chi^b ; ^c ; Z. Citron^e ; M. Connors^e ; A. Dubey^f ; J.M. Durham^e ; Z. Fraenkel^f ; ¹ ; T. Hemmick^e ; J. Kamin^e ; A. Kozlov^f ; B. Lewis^e ; M. Makek^f ; A. Milov^f ; M. Naglis^f ; V. Pantuev^e ; ² ; R. Pisani^a ; M. Proissl^e ; I. Ravinovich^f ; S. Rolnick^d ; T. Sakaguchi^a ; D. Sharma^f ; S. Stoll^a ; J. Sun^e ; I. Tserruya^f ; ^{Itzhak.Tserruya@weizmann.ac.il"" rel=""nofollow} ; C. Woody^a
• 关键词：HBD ; GEM ; CsI photocathode ; UV-photon detector ; ; none ; color ; black"" href=""/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_udi=B6TJM-52R7YYS-1&_mathId=mml22&_pii=S0168900211007534&_rdoc=7&_issn=01689002&_acct=C000061076&
• 刊名：Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：1 August 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：646
• 期：1
• 页码：35-58
• 全文大小：3069 K

文摘

A Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) has been developed, constructed and successfully operated within the PHENIX detector at RHIC. The HBD is a Cherenkov detector operated with pure CF₄. It has a 50 cm long radiator directly coupled in a windowless configuration to a readout element consisting of a triple GEM stack, with a CsI photocathode evaporated on the top surface of the top GEM and pad readout at the bottom of the stack. This paper gives a comprehensive account of the construction, operation and in-beam performance of the detector.