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MINOS is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. A neutrino beam is created at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and fired down through the Earth. Measurements of the energy spectra and composition of the neutrino beam are made both at the source using the Near detector and 735 km away at the Soudan Underground Laboratory in Minnesota using the Far detector. By comparing the spectrum and flavour composition of the neutrino beam between the two detectors neutrino oscillations can be observed. Such a comparison depends on the accuracy of the relative calorimetric energy scale. This thesis details a precise measurement of the calorimetric energy scale of the MINOS Far detector and Calibration detector using stopping muons with a new "track window" technique. These measurements are used to perform the relative calibration between the two detectors. This calibration has been accomplished to 1.7% in data and to significantly better than 2% in the Monte Carlo simulation, thus achieving the MINOS relative calibration target of 2%. A number of cross-checks have been performed to ensure the robustness of the calorimetric energy scale measurements. At the Calibration detector the test-beam energy between run periods is found to be consistent with the detector response to better than 2% after the relative calibration is applied. The muon energy loss in the MINOS detectors determined from Bethe-Bloch predictions, data and Monte Carlo are compared and understood. To estimate the systematic error on the measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters caused by a relative miscalibration a study is performed. A 2% relative miscalibration is shown to cause a 0.6% bias in the values of Δm² and sin²(2θ).

Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Dept. of Mining and Materials Engineering. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/01/12). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1963. / "UC-4 Chemistry" -t.p. "TID-4500 (18th Ed.)" -t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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The object of this investigation was to determine the optimum receiver configuration to be used in an absolute, high radiation flux, calorimeter. Three receivers of different configuration were designed, fabricated, and tested in an arc-image furnace. The results proved conclusively that the optimum receiver configuration was cylindrical with a radial entrance. The receiver was employed in determining that the performance of the calorimeter is independent of cooling water flow rates. The calorimeter was also used to study the flux distribution of the arc-image furnace in the Mechanical Engineering Department. The radiation flux at the optimum point of the arc-image furnace, as measured by the calorimeter, was determined to be 1.35 x 10⁶ Btu/hr-ft². Considering the area of the calorimeter aperture, this radiation flux corresponds to an equivalent blackbody temperature of 5300°K. / Master of Science

The Zero Degree Calorimeter at STAR was used to calculate an asymmetry from small-angle scattering of neutral particles from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. An energy-centroid method was used to define hit positions of the neutral particles for each Shower Maximum Detector plane. An angular asymmetry analysis was done using these positions to measure both a left-right and a top-bottom asymmetry. The asymmetries were then used to calculate transversely-normal and sideways beam-polarization components for both of RHIC’s polarized-proton beams. The results of this analysis show that the Zero Degree Calorimeter Shower Maximum Detectors can be used as effective polarimeters at high beam energies, and can check the functionality of the spin rotators for longitudinally-polarized beams. The results of this analysis will be used in measurements that further the understanding of the source of a proton’s spin. / Department of Physics and Astronomy

Experiment 683, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Wide Band Photon Laboratory, is designed to study photon-hadron collisions at energies up to ~s = 27 GeV. The Wide Band Photon Lab currently the highest energy photon beam in the world. Several processes are to be studied. One such process in the quantum electrodynamic (QED) Compton effect. This paper is concerned with the design and construction of a small electromagnetic calorimeter (with embedded proportional wire chambers) to be used to aid in the study of the QED Compton effect. A theoretical description of the QED Compton effect is given. Basic principles of calorimetry, as it pertains to high energy physics, are discussed. Tests of the components used for construction of this device is discussed and results reviewed. The components include wavelength shifter, scintillator, photomultiplier tubes, and photomultiplier tube bases. Muon testing of this device is discussed also. / Department of Physics and Astronomy