sPHENIX EMCal discussion

["Sickles, Anne M" <sickles AT illinois.edu>]

If there are no comments, I’ll submit this this afternoon.

> On Jul 13, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Sickles, Anne M <sickles AT illinois.edu> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I’d like to submit the following poster abstract to Hard Probes.  
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> sPHENIX EMCal Construction & Performance
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> Anne Sickles for the sPHENIX Collaboration
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> sPHENIX is a new collaboration to build a detector focused on the 
> measurement of jets, photons and upsilons at RHIC in order to understand 
> the temperature dependence of the Quark Gluon Plasma.  sPHENIX will consist 
> of electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry as well is tracking over a wide 
> acceptance.   The electromagnetic calorimeter (EMCal) is a central 
> component of the upsilon, jet and photon measurements. The design of the 
> EMCal has a tungsten powder absorber with embedded scintillating fibers.  
> The small Moliere radius of this calorimeter allow for it to operate in a 
> heavy ion environment while maintaining a compact design.   In this poster, 
> we describe the design and construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter 
> as well as results from prototype tests in beam at Fermilab in the spring 
> of 2016 as well as future plans.
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> 
> Best,
> Anne
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> Anne Sickles
> Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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