The HeRSCheL detector: high-rapidity shower counters for LHCb

K.Carvalho Akiba , F. Alessio , N. Bondar , W. Byczynski , V. Coco , P. Collins , R. Dumps , R. Dzhelyadin , P. Gandini , B. R. Gruberg Cazon , R. Jacobsson , D. Johnson , J. Manthey , J. Mauricio , R. Mcnulty , S. Monteil (1) , M. Ravonel Salzgeber , L. Roy , H. Schindler , S. Stevenson , G. Wilkinson

1 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont

The HERSCHEL detector consists of a set of scintillating counters, designed to increase the coverage of the LHCb experiment in the high-rapidity regions on either side of the main spectrometer. The new detector improves the capabilities of LHCb for studies of diffractive interactions, most notably Central Exclusive Production. In this paper the construction, installation, commissioning, and performance of HERSCHEL are presented.

Mots clés: Detector design and construction technologies and materials; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors; LHC-B; scintillation counter: design; diffraction; performance; fabrication

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]; Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

K.Carvalho Akiba, F. Alessio, N. Bondar, W. Byczynski, V. Coco, et al.. The HeRSCheL detector: high-rapidity shower counters for LHCb. JINST, 2018, 13 (04), pp.P04017. ⟨10.1088/1748-0221/13/04/P04017⟩. ⟨hal-01703673⟩