Aerogel
Links:
The high-pt email archive
Yasuo's high=pT page at Tsukuba
Hubert's transmission curve fits
and rayleigh scattering stuff
Hubert's aerogel page
Shaun's Oct 10 presentation
Shaun's surface reflectance measurements:
ps
or
pdf
from 1997, and old and new Tyvek:
ps
or
pdf
(1997)
Test fixture:
ps
and
pdf
. Also see NIM343 and NIM349 below.
Hubert's talk
at the Nov 2001 RHIC detector upgrades workshop
Shinichi's slides of 28 Feb 2002:
ppt
,
pdf
,
ps
,
html
,
Phenix Focus talk on the aerogel counter
(Satoshi Tagaki, 2004)
Papers:
5 older references
to light-scattering measurements
Onuchin et al, PEP-N counter with wls shifter bars
also
NIM A419 (1998) 584.
Development of aerogel Cherenkov counters with wavelength shifters and phototubes
NIM A343 (1994) 311.
This one describes the test fixture and shows the Cherenkov ring, with very little light scattered out of the ring.
NIM A349 (1994) 431
. This one also shows the result of our Monte Carlo calculations for scattered and unscattered light.
NIM A433 (1999) 396.
Measurement of optical parameters of aerogel
NIM A457 (2001) 52.
Chromatic aberration and forward scattering of light in silica aerogel
NIM A440 (2000) 338.
Optical characterization of n=1.03 silica aerogel used as radiator in the RICH of HERMES
NIM A471 (2001) 325.
Silica aerogel threshold Cherenkov counters for the JLab Hall A spectrometers: improvements and proposed modifications
NIM A457 (2001) 581.
Mass production of hydrophobic silica aerogel and readout optics of Cherenkov light
NIM A406 (1998) 213.
Monte-Carlo simulation for an aerogel Cherenkov counter
Last update 26 Feb 2002 -
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