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Calibrating a Calorimeter System

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Calibration is an incredibly important aspect of working with calorimeters. Physicists want to measure particle energies with their calorimeters. The calorimeters produce electric signals. The calibration gives the recipe for converting one into the other. It turns out that calibration is highly non-trivial. In this chapter, the various methods that are being used, and the pitfalls encountered, are discussed in detail.

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Notes

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    PFA = Particle Flow Analysis, the topic of Chap. 12.

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    Note that CDF expressed calibration constants in ADC cts/GeV, whereas we use the inverse quantity (GeV/ct) elsewhere in this chapter.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Michele Livan

  2. Physics and Astronomy Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

    Richard Wigmans

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Livan, M., Wigmans, R. (2019). Calibrating a Calorimeter System. In: Calorimetry for Collider Physics, an Introduction. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23653-3_9

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