COMPASS Calorimetry in view of future plans

TL;DR

The paper discusses the current and future roles of electromagnetic calorimetry in the COMPASS experiment at CERN, highlighting its importance for hadron physics, nucleon spin studies, and planned GPD measurements, supported by preliminary performance data.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the COMPASS electromagnetic calorimetry system and its anticipated enhancements for future physics programs, including photon detection coverage and initial performance results.

Findings

Preliminary performance characterization of existing calorimeters.

Photon detection coverage for future measurements.

Significance of calorimetry in upcoming GPD studies.

Abstract

The COMPASS experiment at the CERN SPS is dedicated to hadron physics with a broad research programme, including the study of the nucleon spin structure using muons as a probe and a variety of issues in meson spectroscopy using hadron beams. The two stage fixed target spectrometer with electromagnetic (em) and hadronic calorimetry in both stages provides photon detection in a wide angular range. As discussed in this paper, the COMPASS em calorimetry plays a crucial r\^{o}le for the Hadron programme started in 2008 as well as for the planned COMPASS future programme of measuring GPDs via exclusive DVCS photons. We present the photon detection coverage foreseen, and first, preliminary results characterising the present performances of both existing COMPASS electromagnetic calorimeters, based on test beam data taken at CERN T9 facility end of 2007.