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

作者：Anderson W; Azmoun B; Cherlin A; Chi C Y; Citron Z; Connors M; Dubey A; Durham J M; Fraenkel Z; Hemmick T; Kamin J; Kozlov A; Lewis B; Makek M; Milov A; Naglis M; Pantuev V; Pisani R; Proissl M; Ravinovich I; Rolnick S; Sakaguchi T; Sharma D; Stoll S; Sun J; Tserruya I^*; Woody C

来源：Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment , 2011, 646(1): 35-58.

DOI：10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.015

• HBD
• GEM
• Csl photocathode
• UV-photon detector
• CF(4)

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 Csl 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.

• 出版日期2011-8-1