Simulation studies of hadron energy resolution as a function of iron plate thickness at INO-ICAL

Lakshmi, S. M. ; Ghosh, A. ; Devi, M. M. ; Kaur, D. ; Choubey, S. ; Dighe, A. ; Indumathi, D. ; Murthy, M. V. N. ; Naimuddin, Md. (2014) Simulation studies of hadron energy resolution as a function of iron plate thickness at INO-ICAL Journal of Instrumentation, 9 (09). Article ID T09003. ISSN 1748-0221

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Abstract

We report on a detailed simulation study of the hadron energy resolution as a function of the thickness of the absorber plates for the proposed Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). We compare the hadron resolutions obtained with absorber thicknesses in the range 1.5–8 cm for neutrino interactions in the energy range 2–15 GeV, which is relevant to hadron production in atmospheric neutrino interactions. We find that at lower energies, the thickness dependence of energy resolution is steeper than at higher energies, however there is a thickness-independent contribution that dominates at the lower thicknesses discussed in this work. As a result, the gain in hadron energy resolution with decreasing plate thickness is marginal. We present the results in the form of fits to a function with energy-dependent exponent.

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