The beam test facility at Jefferson Lab for the precise energy measurement of future calorimeter concepts

TL;DR

This paper describes the Jefferson Lab beam test facility used for evaluating and optimizing calorimeter components and signal processing to achieve high-precision energy measurements in nuclear physics experiments.

Contribution

It presents the use of Jefferson Lab's beam facility for testing calorimeter components and electronics under realistic conditions, advancing calorimetry performance understanding.

Findings

Energy resolution of the test setup is better than 0.6%.

Tests covered lepton momenta from 3 to 6 GeV/c.

Insights into light collection and signal processing impacts.

Abstract

In experimental nuclear physics (NP), high-precision electromagnetic calorimetry typically requires a good energy resolution and linear photosensor response on the level of (1-2)% over a full dynamic range of the detector. The beam of secondary leptons at the Jefferson Lab experimental complex, provided by the Hall D pair spectrometer (PS), is an optimal facility for studies aiming to understand the impact of light collection and signal processing on calorimetry energy resolution under real experimental conditions. The light emission and collection processes depend on radiator component quality and type, while signal processing depends on photosensor type and front-end electronics design. Various calorimeter tower components and detector assemblies for current and future NP experiments were tested within the lepton momentum range of (3-6) GeV/c using PS. The energy resolution of the PS itself is estimated to be better than approximately 0.6%.