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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 60: Kalorimeter II

T 60.6: Talk

Friday, March 7, 2008, 15:15–15:30, KGI-HS 1024

Cosmic ray teststand for the CASTOR calorimeter of CMS — •Dilson de Jesus Damiao¹, Monika Grothe², and Alberto Santoro¹ — ¹Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil — ²University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

The very forward region of the CMS experiment at the LHC will house a quartz-tungsten sampling calorimeter CASTOR ("Centauro And STrange Object Research) with rapidity coverage 5.1<|eta|<6.6. CASTOR will add considerably to the forward physics reach of CMS in both proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions. We report on the setup and operation of a teststand for calibrating the calorimeter response with the help of mip signals originating from muons in cosmic-ray-initiated particle showers.