Design, construction, operation and performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX experiment

William E Anderson ,Z Fraenkel,I Tserruya,B Azmoun,A Cherlin,M Proissl,M Naglis,T Sakaguchi,J Sun,J Kamin,A Kozlov,A Milov,M Makek,I Ravinovich,V Pantuev,D Sharma,B Lewis,C.Y Chi,M Connors,R P Pisani ,S D Rolnick ,A K Dubey ,J M Durham ,S P Stoll ,Z H Citron ,T K Hemmick ,C L Woody

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.015

Design, construction, operation and performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX experiment

William E Anderson , Z Fraenkel + Show 25 more

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.015

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Journal: Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A	Publication Date: Apr 27, 2011
Citations: 89

Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, Columbia University

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A Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) has been developed, constructed and successfully operated within the PHENIX detector at RHIC. The HBD is a Cherenkov detector operated with pure CF 4 . It has a 50 cm long radiator directly coupled in a windowless configuration to a readout element consisting of a triple GEM stack, with a CsI photocathode evaporated on the top surface of the top GEM and pad readout at the bottom of the stack. This paper gives a comprehensive account of the construction, operation and in-beam performance of the detector.

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