High Energy Beam Test of the PHENIX Lead-Scintillator EM Calorimeter

Awes, T. C.; Bazilevsky, A.; Bathe, S.; Bucher, D.; Buesching, H.; Goto, Y.; Imai, K.; Ippolitov, M. S.; Kistenev, E.; Mexner, V.; Peitzmann, T.; Saito, N.; Torii, H.; White, S. N.

High Energy Beam Test of the PHENIX Lead-Scintillator EM Calorimeter

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In the PHENIX experiment at RHIC, the electro-magnetic calorimeter plays an important role in both the heavy-ion and spin physics programs for which it was designed. In order to measure its performance in the energy range up to 80GeV, a beam test was performed at the CERN-SPS H6 beam line. We describe the beam test and present results on calorimeter performance with pion and electron beams.
12 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A