https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0953-y
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Nose-cone calorimeter: PHENIX forward upgrade
University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
* e-mail: chvala@bnl.gov
Received:
30
September
2008
Revised:
20
January
2009
Published online:
28
February
2009
PHENIX is a high rate experiment efficient at measuring rare processes, but has limited acceptance in azimuth and pseudorapidity (η). The Nose Cone Calorimeter (NCC), a W–Si sampling calorimeter in the region of 0.9<η<3, is one of the upgrades which will significantly increase coverage in both azimuth and pseudorapidity. The NCC will expand PHENIX’s precision measurements of electromagnetic probes in η, reconstruct jets, perform a wide scope of correlation measurements, and enhance triggering capabilities. The detector will significantly contribute to measurements of γ-jet correlations, quarkonia production, and low-x nuclear structure functions. This report discusses details of the detector design and its performance concerning a sample of the physics topics which will benefit from the NCC. In view of recent funding difficulties, outlook of the activities is discussed.
PACS: 29.40.Vj – / 29.40.Gx – / 24.10.Lx –
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