[Hps] HPS ECal article available on ArXiV

[Stepan Stepanyan]

Dear Michel and Gabriel,

Thank you! We all appreciate your hard work.
Congratulations to the team for the first article from the engineering run.

Regards, Stepan


On 10/16/16 10:56 PM, Gabriel CHARLES wrote:
> Dear co-authors,
>
>   Please find below all the details about the HPS ECal article 
> available on ArXiV. Do not forget to claim ownership if you want so.
>
> Have a nice day,
>   Michel and Gabriel
>
>
> Your submission submit/1693436 has been assigned the permanent arXiv
> identifier 1610.04319 and is available at:
>
> http://arxiv.org/abs/1610.04319
>
> The paper password for this article is: xxciy
> Please share this with your co-authors. They may use it to claim
> ownership.
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>
> Abstract will appear in today's mailing as:
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> arXiv:1610.04319
> From: Gabriel Charles <charlesg at ipno.in2p3.fr>
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 04:03:30 GMT   (1439kb,D)
>
> Title: The HPS electromagnetic calorimeter
> Authors: Ilaria Balossino, Nathan Baltzell, Marco Battaglieri, Mariangela
>   Bondi, Emma Buchanan, Daniela Calvo, Andrea Celentano, Gabriel 
> Charles, Luca
>   Colaneri, Annalisa D'Angelo, Marzio De Napoli, Raffaella De Vita, 
> Raphael
>   Dupre, Mathieu Ehrhart, Alessandra Filippi, Michel Garcon, 
> Francois-Xavier
>   Girod, Michel Guidal, Maurik Holtrop, Volodymyr Iurasov, Valery 
> Kubarovsky,
>   Kyle McCarty, Jeremy McCormick, Mikhail Osipenko, Rafayel 
> Paremuzyan, Nunzio
>   Randazzo, Emmanuel Rauly, Benjamin Raydo, Emmanuel Rindel, 
> Alessandro Rizzo,
>   Philippe Rosier, Valeria Sipala, Stepan Stepanyan, Holly Szumila-Vance,
>   Lawrence Weinstein
> Categories: physics.ins-det hep-ex nucl-ex
> Comments: 34 pages, 25 figures
> License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
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>   The Heavy Photon Search experiment (HPS) is searching for a new 
> gauge boson,
> the so-called "heavy photon". Through its kinetic mixing with the 
> Standard
> Model photon, this particle could decay into an electron-positron 
> pair. It
> would then be detectable as a narrow peak in the invariant mass 
> spectrum of
> such pairs, or, depending on its lifetime, by a decay downstream of the
> production target. The HPS experiment is installed in Hall-B of 
> Jefferson Lab.
> This article presents the design and performance of one of the two 
> detectors of
> the experiment, the electromagnetic calorimeter, during the runs 
> performed in
> 2015-2016. The calorimeter's main purpose is to provide a fast trigger 
> and
> reduce the copious background from electromagnetic processes through 
> matching
> with a tracking detector. The detector is a homogeneous calorimeter, 
> made of
> 442 lead-tungsten (PbWO$_4$) scintillating crystals, each read-out by an
> avalanche photodiode coupled to a custom trans-impedance amplifier.
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