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High-Energy Physics Applications of EGS

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When a shower takes place in a large detector mass, most of the incident energy appears as ionization or excitation in the medium. The energy of the initiating particle can be determined to a reasonable degree by sampling the energy deposited in the device—hence, the name “calorimeter”. Calorimetry has become an essential tool for high-energy physics experiments. With the new colliders—e.g., LEP and LHC at CERN, HERA at DESY, SLC at SLAC, and the proposed SSC in the U.S.— calorimeters have almost completely replaced conventional spectometers for particle identification and the measurement of their energy. Furthermore, the particle physics concept of jets has shifted the instrumentation emphasis from individual particle measurement to precise determination of the energy balance of multiparticle systems— i.e., towards calorimetry. Unfortunately, the complexity of these devices increases tremendously in the hundred-GeV energy range, and it is therefore important to have reliable simulation tools available for designing calorimeters and evaluating their performance with specific experiments in mind.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56100, Pisa, Italy

    A. Del Guerra & Walter R. Nelson

  2. Department of Physics, University of Napoli, Napoli, Italy

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  3. Radiation Physics Group, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California, 94309, USA

    Walter R. Nelson

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Del Guerra, A., Nelson, W.R. (1988). High-Energy Physics Applications of EGS. In: Jenkins, T.M., Nelson, W.R., Rindi, A. (eds) Monte Carlo Transport of Electrons and Photons. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 38. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1059-4_28

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