https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01540-6
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Scintillating glass for precision calorimetry in nuclear physics
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Physics Department, Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave NE, 20064, Washington, DC, USA
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Physics Division, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Ave, 23606, Newport News, VA, USA
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INFN - Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16145, Genom, Italy
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INFN - Sezione di Catania, Via S. Sofia, 64, 95125, Catania, Italy
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Physics Department, A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute), 02 Alikhanyan Brothers Str, 0036, Yerevan, Armenia
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Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IJCLab, 91406, Orsay, France
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Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique, 91405, Orsay, France
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Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Messina, 98166, Messina, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Genova, 16126, Genom, Italy
Received:
30
December
2024
Accepted:
7
March
2025
Published online:
5
April
2025
High-performance scintillator materials are needed for particle identification and measurements of energy and momentum of electromagnetic particles in modern nuclear physics experiments. As an example, the US Electron-Ion Collider, a unique collider with diverse physics topics, requires electromagnetic calorimetry enabling high-quality electron identification and detection in the momentum range of 0.3 to tens of GeV. The highest resolution in electromagnetic calorimeters can be provided by homogeneous materials, e.g., lead tungstate crystals. Inorganic glass scintillators have been investigated as an attractive and cost-effective alternative to crystals, that is also easier and faster to manufacture in mass production. In this paper, we discuss progress in the fabrication and characterization of recent scintillating glass samples on both test bench and beam tests. The results are well-reproduced by simulation and are discussed in the context of the Electron-Ion Collider experimental requirements and bench-marked against lead tungstate crystals.
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Vladimir Berdnikov, Marco Battaglieri, Mariangela Bondi, Ivan Cali, Joshua Crafts, Alexandre Demarque, Yeran Ghandilyan, Stefano Grazzi, Arthur Mkrtchyan, Hamlet Mkrtchyan, Casey Morean, Mehran Mostafavi, Carlos Muñoz Camacho, Noémie Pilleux, Avnish Singh, Alexander Somov, Marco Spreafico, Petr Stepanov, Vardan Tadevosyan, Simone Vallarino, and Yuwei Zhu: These authors contributed equally to this work.
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