A novel way of electron identification in calorimeters

R. Desalvo, F. G. Hartjes, A. M. Henriques, B. Ong, H. P. Paar, C. Scheel, P. Sonderegger, R. Wigmans, A. Zichichi

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Abstract

We show that electromagnetic and hadronic showers can be distinguished through differences in the time structure of the calorimeter signals. These differences occur at the level of 5-10 ns. It is experimentally observed that with a detector that is sufficiently fast, i.e. the scintillating fibre calorimeter developed in the framework of the LAA project at CERN, e/π separation can be achieved at the 1% level, independent of any knowledge of the shower profile.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)467-472
Number of pages6
JournalNuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A
Volume279
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 15 1989

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