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Development of a honeycomb gas proportional counter array for photon multiplicity measurements in high multiplicity environment

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A novel gas-based detector using large arrays of honeycomb cells has been developed and tested for use as a pre-shower photon multiplicity detector (PMD) for STAR and ALICE experiments. The appropriate cell design was arrived at using GARFIELD simulations. Prototype chambers with cell dimensions corresponding to STAR and ALICE were fabricated and tested at CERN PS and SPS. The charged particle detection efficiency and the pre-shower characteristics have been studied using pion and electron beams.

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  1. Physics Department, Panjab University, 160 014, Chandigarh, India

    M. M. Aggarwal, V. S. Bhatia & A. Kumar

  2. Physics Department, Jammu University, 180 001, Jammu, India

    S. K. Badyal, S. Mahajan, L. K. Mangotra, B. V. K. Potukuchi & N. KRao

  3. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 700 064, Kolkata, India

    S. Chattopadhyay, M. R. Dutta Majumdar, M. S. Ganti, T. K. Nayak, S. Pal, R. N. Singaraju, Bikash Sinha, M. D. Trivedi & Y. P. Viyogi

  4. Institute of Physics, 751 005, Bhubaneswar, India

    A. K. Dubey, D. P. Mahapatra, B. Mohanty & S. C. Phatak

  5. Physics Department, Rajasthan University, 302 004, Jaipur, India

    R. Raniwala & S. Raniwala

  6. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    R. J. Veenhof

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Aggarwal, M.M., Badyal, S.K., Bhatia, V.S. et al. Development of a honeycomb gas proportional counter array for photon multiplicity measurements in high multiplicity environment. Pramana - J Phys 60, 1023–1027 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02707024

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