Electromagnetic Calorimeter

Write-ups

•    PHENIX Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMCal) – Detector Basics (G.David)
•    The MONDO Chip - A CMOS Integrated Circuit for the PHENIX Electromagnetic Calorimeter (G.David)
•    Explanation of PHENIX triggers (A.Bazilevsky)

Theses

•    The Quark Gluon Plasma probed by Low Momentum Direct Photons in Au+Au Collisions at √s_NN=62.4GeV and √s_NN=39 GeV beam energies (Vladimir Khachatryan)
•    Inclusive jet production in proton-proton and copper-gold collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV (Arbin Timilsina)

Publications

• PHENIX Calorimeter    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01954-X)

• High Energy Beam Test of the PHENIX Lead-Scintillator EM Calorimeter    High Energy Beam Test of the PHENIX Lead-Scintillator EM Calorimeter

Presentations

•    PHENIX Focus: Electromagnetic Calorimeter (Gabor David)

Variables and Accessors under PHCentralTrack Node (used for charged particle analyses)

Variables and Accessors under emcClusterContainer (used for neutral meson analyses)

EMCal has its own classes emcClusterContainer and emcClusterContent that contain variables used mainly for the analysis of neutral mesons. The small code snippet below shows the usage of these classes and one example to access a variable. The rest of the variables listed below in the table can be accessed in the same manner.

PHCentralTrack* d_cnt = getClass<PHCentralTrack>(topNode,"PHCentralTrack");
emcClusterContainer *emccont = getClass<emcClusterContainer> (topNode, "emcClusterContainer");
emcClusterContent* emc = emccont->getCluster(icluster);
for ( unsigned int itrk = 0; itrk < d_cnt->get_npart(); ++itrk )
{
  for (int iclus = 0; iclus < int( emccont->size() ); iclus++)
   {
     emc = emccont->getCluster(iclus);
     float energy  = emc->ecore();
   }
 }

A complete list of these EMCal specific variables is as follows: