@article{1e1fcd68f1d14145b740346847c6dc8d,
title = "Design, construction, operation and performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX experiment",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "CsI photocathode, GEM, HBD, UV-photon detector",
author = "W. Anderson and B. Azmoun and A. Cherlin and Chi, {C. Y.} and Z. Citron and M. Connors and A. Dubey and Durham, {J. M.} and Z. Fraenkel and T. Hemmick and J. Kamin and A. Kozlov and B. Lewis and M. Makek and A. Milov and M. Naglis and V. Pantuev and R. Pisani and M. Proissl and I. Ravinovich and S. Rolnick and T. Sakaguchi and D. Sharma and S. Stoll and J. Sun and I. Tserruya and C. Woody",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to the PHENIX Collaboration for their support and help during the various phases of the HBD upgrade project. We are grateful to Franco Garibaldi and his group from INFN, Roma for their CsI evaporation facility. We are grateful for the technical support of Mr. Richard Hutter, Mr. Richard Lefferts and Mrs. Lilia Goffer. We acknowledge the support of the work at Brookhaven National Laboratory by the US Department of Energy, Division of Nuclear Physics , under Prime Contract no. DE-AC02-98CH10886 , at Columbia University's Nevis Labs by the US Department of Energy, Division of Nuclear Physics , under Prime Contract no. DE-FG02-86ER40281 , at Stony Brook University by the US National Science Foundation under Contract PHY-0521536 and by the US Department of Energy, Division of Nuclear Physics under Contract DEFG-0296ER40980 , and at the Weizmann Institute of Science by the Israeli Science Foundation, the Minerva Foundation with funding from the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research and the Leon and Nella Benoziyo Center for High Energy Physics. ",
year = "2011",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.015",
language = "English",
volume = "646",
pages = "35--58",
journal = "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment",
issn = "0168-9002",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "1",
}