Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-02-28
Int.J.Mod.Phys.E16:2137-2142,2007
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
Comments 6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the Quark Matter 2006 Conference in Shanghai, Nov 14-20 2006 to be submitted to In
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0218301307007581
The CMS Zero Degree Calorimeters, ZDCs, will measure photons and neutrons emitted with |eta|> 8.6 from Pb+Pb, p+Pb and p+p collisions at sqrt(Snn)=5.5, 8.8 and 14 TeV respectively. The calorimeter consists of an electromagnetic part segmented in the horizontal direction and an hadronic part segmented into four units in depth. In addition CMS will have access to data from a segmented shower maximum detector being built for luminosity measurements. We will present detailed results from tests beam measurements taken at the CERN SPS. These data will be used to extrapolate the utility of the ZDCs to measure photons, and possibly pi0s in p+p and ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions. Data from the hadronic section can be used to estimate the number of participants in heavy ion-collisions. In addition we will discuss plans to use the detector to measure the reaction plane, thereby extending the sensitivity of the central detectors in CMS.
Beaumont W.
Debbins P.
Garcia Edenise
Grachov O. A.
Ingram David
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