Precision calibration of the NuTeV calorimeter

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2000-06, Vol.447 (3), p.377-415
• Main Authors: Harris, D.A., Yu, J., Adams, T., Alton, A., Avvakumov, S., de Barbaro, L., de Barbaro, P., Bernstein, R.H., Bodek, A., Bolton, T., Brau, J., Buchholz, D., Budd, H., Bugel, L., Conrad, J., Drucker, R.B., Fleming, B.T., Frey, R., Formaggio, J., Goldman, J., Goncharov, M., Johnson, R.A., Kim, J.H., Koutsoliotas, S., Krishnaswami, G., Lamm, M.J., Marsh, W., Mason, D., McNulty, C., McFarland, K.S., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Romosan, A., Sakumoto, W.K., Schellman, H., Shaevitz, M.H., Spentzouris, P., Stern, E.G., Vaitaitis, A., Vakili, M., Ark, E.Van, Wu, V., Yang, U.K., Zeller, G.P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0168-9002; 1872-9576
• DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)01304-2

NuTeV is a neutrino–nucleon deep-inelastic scattering experiment at Fermilab. The detector consists of an iron-scintillator sampling calorimeter interspersed with drift chambers, followed by a muon toroidal spectrometer. We present determinations of response and resolution functions of the NuTeV calorimeter for electrons, hadrons, and muons over an energy range from 4.8 to 190 GeV. The absolute hadronic energy scale is determined to an accuracy of 0.43%. We compare our measurements to predictions from calorimeter theory and GEANT3 simulations.