Item CERN-OBJ-DE-062 - OPAL Forward Calorimeter (half cylinder with lead scintillator)

Object

1 half cylinder piece is available for loan. The OPAL forward Detector Calorimeter was made in 4 half cylindrical pieces. Two full cylinders were placed round the LEP beam pipe about 3m downstream of the interaction point. The detector was used primarily to measure the luminosity of LEP (rate of interactions) and also to trigger on 2-photon events. In addition it formed an essential part of the detector coverage which OPAL needed to carry out searches for new particles such as the Higgs boson. The detector is made of scintillators sandwiched between lead sheets. The light from the scintillators passes via bars of wavelength shifter and light guides on its way to be measured by photomultipliers. There is a layer of gas filled tube chambers within the calorimeter. These provide a measure of the position of the particles interacting in the calorimeter.

Public

Available, 282.

<!--HTML-->The forward detector can have its upper panel removed to show the lead - scintillator sandwich construction. <P> <U>Previous exhibition venues</U>: <br />- Technisches Museum Wien "When Energy Becomes Matter" (May-October 2001)</P>