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

W. Anderson; B. Azmoun; A. Cherlin; C. Y. Chi; Z. Citron; M. Connors; A. Dubey; J. M. Durham; Z. Fraenkel; T. Hemmick; J. Kamin; A. Kozlov; B. Lewis; M. Makek; A. Milov; M. Naglis; V. Pantuev; R. Pisani; M. Proissl; I. Ravinovich; S. Rolnick; T. Sakaguchi; D. Sharma; S. Stoll; J. Sun; I. Tserruya; C. Woody

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.015

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

W. Anderson
, B. Azmoun
, A. Cherlin
, C. Y. Chi
, Z. Citron
, M. Connors
, A. Dubey
, J. M. Durham
, Z. Fraenkel
, T. Hemmick
, J. Kamin
, A. Kozlov
, B. Lewis
, M. Makek
, A. Milov
, M. Naglis
, V. Pantuev
, R. Pisani
, M. Proissl
, I. Ravinovich

S. Rolnick, T. Sakaguchi, D. Sharma, S. Stoll, J. Sun, I. Tserruya, C. Woody

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	35-58
Number of pages	24
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	646
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.015
State	Published - 1 Aug 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

CsI photocathode
GEM
HBD
UV-photon detector

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Instrumentation

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Anderson, W., Azmoun, B., Cherlin, A., Chi, C. Y., Citron, Z., Connors, M., Dubey, A., Durham, J. M., Fraenkel, Z., Hemmick, T., Kamin, J., Kozlov, A., Lewis, B., Makek, M., Milov, A., Naglis, M., Pantuev, V., Pisani, R., Proissl, M., ... Woody, C. (2011). Design, construction, operation and performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX experiment. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 646(1), 35-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.015

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Design, construction, operation and performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX experiment. / Anderson, W.; Azmoun, B.; Cherlin, A. et al.
In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 646, No. 1, 01.08.2011, p. 35-58.

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