IOP HEPP Particle Physics 2009

Particle Identification in the ND280 Electromagnetic Calorimeter

8 Apr 2009, 11:30

15m

Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre (University of Oxford)

Neutrinos Parallel Session 3 C - Neutrinos and Double Beta Decay

Speaker

Antony Carver (University of Warwick)

Description

The ND280 calorimeter is a coarsely grained lead/scintillator detector. The coarse granularity presents challenges for particle identification. Progress in using an artificial neural network to separate MIP, electromagnetic showers and hadronic showers is presented.

Presentation materials

Slides

carverPID.pdf.pdf