Comments on: Calorimeters for High-Energy Physics – part 2

By: Dark Matter searches at colliders - part I « A Quantum Diaries Survivor

Dark Matter searches at colliders - part I « A Quantum Diaries Survivor — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:31:35 +0000

[...] are measured in the detector elements called calorimeters (see a description in two parts here and here) by destroying the particles they contain, both charged and neutral ones, in electromagnetic and [...]

By: Plato

Plato — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:42:21 +0000

Dorigo,

With your understanding of the calorimeters, how has this affected your views on the universe?:)

By: nc

nc — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:45:23 +0000

OK, I think I get it – the radiation length is the mean free path for the emission of secondary radiation due to inelastic scatter or pair production, while the attenuation length refers to the disappearance of the source radiation due to absorption.

By: nc

nc — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:36:42 +0000

I take it that ‘radiation length’ is Italian physicists’ jargon for what everybody else calls either the mean free path, or relaxation length, of the radiation!

By: dorigo

dorigo — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:45:09 +0000

Hi Carl, I will see if I find another pic for you of those devices.

Hi Myke, no, I am afraid I cannot. I do not know the system well enough.

Cheers,
T.

By: Myke

Myke — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:32:16 +0000

The photo of the calorimeter’s ‘termination benches’ makes one curious about the interface. Can you please describe the interface?

By: carlbrannen

carlbrannen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:52:07 +0000

The forward calorimeter photo is so awesome that it made me draw in my breath. It would be nice to have a human figure for scale