TY - JOUR
T1 - The very forward CASTOR calorimeter of the CMS experiment
AU - The CMS collaboration
AU - Khachatryan, V.
AU - Sirunyan, A. M.
AU - Tumasyan, A.
AU - Adam, W.
AU - Ambrogi, F.
AU - Bergauer, T.
AU - Dragicevic, M.
AU - Erö, J.
AU - Escalante Del Valle, A.
AU - Frühwirth, R.
AU - Jeitler, M.
AU - Krammer, N.
AU - Lechner, L.
AU - Liko, D.
AU - Madlener, T.
AU - Mikulec, I.
AU - Pitters, F. M.
AU - Rad, N.
AU - Schieck, J.
AU - Schöfbeck, R.
AU - Spanring, M.
AU - Templ, S.
AU - Waltenberger, W.
AU - Wulz, C. E.
AU - Zarucki, M.
AU - Chekhovsky, V.
AU - Litomin, A.
AU - Makarenko, V.
AU - Suarez Gonzalez, J.
AU - Beaumont, W.
AU - Darwish, M. R.
AU - De Wolf, E. A.
AU - Di Croce, D.
AU - Janssen, X.
AU - Kello, T.
AU - Lelek, A.
AU - Pieters, M.
AU - Rejeb Sfar, H.
AU - Van Haevermaet, H.
AU - Van Mechelen, P.
AU - Beaudette, F.
AU - Davignon, O.
AU - Granier De Cassagnac, R.
AU - Nguyen, M.
AU - Ochando, C.
AU - Paganini, P.
AU - Salerno, R.
AU - Zabi, A.
AU - Zghiche, A.
AU - Cappati, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration..
PY - 2021/2/1
Y1 - 2021/2/1
N2 - The physics motivation, detector design, triggers, calibration, alignment, simulation, and overall performance of the very forward CASTOR calorimeter of the CMS experiment are reviewed. The CASTOR Cherenkov sampling calorimeter is located very close to the LHC beam line, at a radial distance of about 1cm from the beam pipe, and at 14.4m from the CMS interaction point, covering the pseudorapidity range of -6.6 < η < -5.2. It was designed to withstand high ambient radiation and strong magnetic fields. The performance of the detector in measurements of forward energy density, jets, and processes characterized by rapidity gaps, is reviewed using data collected in proton and nuclear collisions at the LHC.
AB - The physics motivation, detector design, triggers, calibration, alignment, simulation, and overall performance of the very forward CASTOR calorimeter of the CMS experiment are reviewed. The CASTOR Cherenkov sampling calorimeter is located very close to the LHC beam line, at a radial distance of about 1cm from the beam pipe, and at 14.4m from the CMS interaction point, covering the pseudorapidity range of -6.6 < η < -5.2. It was designed to withstand high ambient radiation and strong magnetic fields. The performance of the detector in measurements of forward energy density, jets, and processes characterized by rapidity gaps, is reviewed using data collected in proton and nuclear collisions at the LHC.
KW - Calorimeters
KW - Cherenkov detectors
KW - Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics
U2 - 10.1088/1748-0221/16/02/P02010
DO - 10.1088/1748-0221/16/02/P02010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101722929
SN - 1748-0221
VL - 16
JO - Journal of Instrumentation
JF - Journal of Instrumentation
IS - 2
M1 - P02010
ER -