The Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) is integral part of the CMS experiment,
especially, for heavy ion studies. The design of the ZDC includes two
independent calorimeter sections: an electromagnetic section and a hadronic
section. Sampling calorimeters using tungsten and quartz fibers have been
chosen for the energy measurements. An overview of the ZDC is presented along
with a current status of calorimeter's preparation for Day 1 of LHC.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, to appear in the proceedings of CALOR06,
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Status of Zero Degree Calorimeter for CMS 
Experiment
O. A. Grachov, M. J. Murray
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA
A. S. Ayan, P. Debbins, E. Norbeck, Y. Onel
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa,
Iowa City, IA, USA
D. d’Enterria
CERN PH/EP, CH-1211 Geneva
CMS Collaboration
Abstract. The Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) is integral part of the CMS experiment, 
especially, for heavy ion studies. The design of the ZDC includes two independent calorimeter 
sections: an electromagnetic section and a hadronic section. Sampling calorimeters using 
tungsten and quartz fibers have been chosen for the energy measurements. An overview of the 
ZDC is presented along with a current status of calorimeter's preparation for Day 1 of LHC.
Keywords: zero degree calorimeter, electromagnetic, hadronic.
PACS: Calorimeters, 29.40.Vj
INTRODUCTION
The two Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDCs) are a major hardware contribution of 
the US Heavy Ion group to the CMS experiment. The ZDCs will measure neutrons 
and very forward photons for the heavy-ion and low-luminosity (up to 1033 cm-2s-1) pp 
collisions. The design is robust, as simple as possible and based on the Relativistic 
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) ZDC design [1], which showed highly successful 
performance for the four RHIC BNL experiments: BRAHMS, PHOBOS, PHENIX 
and STAR.
The ZDCs will provide reliable measurements of real-time luminosity, beam tuning 
and accelerator monitoring during A+A, p+A, and p+p running. In the A+A mode, the 
measured coincidence rate of forward-backward neutron signals emitted in the decay 
of the Coulomb excited colliding ions can be used to determine the absolute A+A 
luminosity. The ZDCs, in addition, will help to discriminate effectively against beam-
residual gas backgrounds and complement other available methods for commissioning 
the proton and ion beams at the LHC. 
The event-by-event determination of the heavy-ion collision centrality is a basic 
prerequisite for any physics measurement of A+A reactions. The centrality of A+A 
reactions determines the degree of overlapping of the colliding nuclei and, thus, the 
maximum energy density reached in the interaction. Because the ZDCs are sensitive to 
“spectator” neutrons, they are important detectors for measurements of reaction 
centrality. The combination of ZDCs measuring the energy of forward neutrons,
together with other multiplicity detectors at more central rapidity, has become the 
standard method for determining reaction centrality in A+A collisions at RHIC. 
The ZDCs have been proven at RHIC to be of paramount importance for triggering
and tagging UPC (ultra peripheral collision) events by measuring the forward
neutrons issuing from the Coulomb-excited-nucleus dissociation.
For the photon measurement, it is necessary to have an electromagnetic zero-degree 
calorimeter in front of the neutron zero-degree calorimeter. The “standard” Pomeron-
Pomeron diffractive A+A collision leading to central particle production and forward 
nucleus dissociation will not only be a background for γ+γ and γ+A processes but also 
a signal in their own right, accessible to study with the ZDC. 
MECHANICAL AND OPTICAL DESIGN
In order to measure neutrons and very forward photons the calorimeter will be 
placed downstream of the first beam dipole magnet in the straight section and between 
the two beam pipes. In CMS this region is located ~140 m on each side of the 
interaction vertex inside the neutral particle absorber (TAN), designed to protect LHC 
magnets by limiting their absorbed dose. This neutral particle absorber was built with 
a detector slot of 1 m length, 96 mm width and 607 mm height, into which are inserted 
90 cm length copper absorber bars and a transversally segmented ionizing chamber 
(proton-proton luminosity monitor). The design of each individual ZDC includes two 
independent calorimeter sections, the electromagnetic section (EM section) and the 
hadronic section (HAD section). These sections replace the copper absorbers (see Fig.
1). The ZDC calorimeter sections are sampling calorimeters with the core of each 
structure consisting of a tungsten-plate/quartz-fiber-ribbon stack. A significant 
advantage of this technology is that the calorimeter is compact, extremely fast, and 
radiation hard. Quartz fibers were chosen as the active media of the ZDC calorimeters 
because of their unique radiation hardness features and the intrinsic speed of the 
Cherenkov effect. The quartz-quartz fibers can withstand up to 30 GRad with only a 
few percent loss in transparency in the wavelength range of 300 nm to 425 nm. The 
Cherenkov light generated by charged particles passing through the fibers is brought 
to photomultiplier tubes (PMT). 
The HAD section consists of 24 layers of 15.5 mm thick tungsten plates and 24 
layers of 0.7 mm diameter quartz fibers. The EM section is made of 33 layers of 2 mm 
thick tungsten plates and 33 layers of 0.7 mm diameter quartz fibers. The hadronic 
section is longitudinally segmented into 4 readout segments of ~1.4 nuclear interaction 
length each. The tungsten plates are tilted by 45°.The fibers of each individual 
tungsten/quartz fiber cell are grouped together to form readout bundles. The four fiber 
bundles are coupled to four photomultiplier tubes via long air core lightguides which
provide optical mixing and matching of the fiber bundle to the photocathode. 
FIGURE 1. Schematic illustration of the TAN detector slot showing the location of the p-p luminosity 
monitor and the ZDC (EM section and HAD section). 
The electromagnetic section is segmented into 5 horizontal (transverse) individual 
readout towers. The tungsten plates are oriented vertically. The fibers from each
individual tower are grouped together to form a readout tower bundle. These are each 
coupled directly to the PMT. All calorimeter sections will be instrumented with the 
same type of PMT, R7525, used in the HF (forward hadronic) calorimeter. The 
physical characteristics of the ZDC are summarized in Table 1.
TABLE 1.  The Physical Characteristics of ZDC.
Hadronic Section Electromagnetic Section
Sampling Ratio 15.5 mm W/0.7 mm QF 2 mm W/0.7 mm QF
Number of Cells 24 33
Interaction (Rad.) Length 5.6λo (19Xo)
Number of Channels 4 longitudinal segments 5 horizontal divisions
Module Size (W x L x H), mm 92 x 711 x 705 92 x 116 x 705
Weight of  Module, kg ~400 ~65
Tungsten/quartz sampling calorimeters of this type have been successfully used in a 
number of colliding beam and fixed target experiments, and as a consequence, the 
technology is well known [2]. Recent examples of detectors incorporating this 
technology include the zero degree calorimeters for the four heavy-ion experiments at 
RHIC. Much of the technology employed in the optical and mechanical design of 
CMS ZDC has its origins in the original research and development conducted for the 
ZDCs of RHIC and the HF calorimeter of the CMS experiment at the LHC, including 
the preparation of the optical components (quartz optical fibers, optical lightguides) 
and the characterization of the phototubes. 
RADIATION ENVIRONMENT
The LHC will have 7 TeV proton beams with nominal luminosity L= 1034 cm-2s-1
and with an interaction rate of 8×108s-1. The power density, power dissipation, particle 
fluxes and spectra, accumulated dose and residual dose rates for the TAN neutral 
absorber have been evaluated by means of the DPMJET event generator for p-p 
collisions based on the MARS code [3]. During the pp runs with luminosity L= 1033
cm-2s-1 the expected average absorbed radiation dose will be of about 18 GRad/year. 
Whereas, for a one-month PbPb run the expected averaged absorbed dose will be ~30 
MRad. To avoid radiation damage of the optical fibers, the ZDC will only be installed 
during the heavy-ion runs and the first low-luminosity p-p runs. 
The phototubes will be located about ~500 mm above the beam line and ~140 m 
from the interaction point. According to estimates, the radiation environment will be 
on the same level as for the PMTs of the HF calorimeter (~10 krad/yr for the design p-
p luminosity of 1034 cm-2s-1). This dose is permitting the use of the same Hamamatsu 
R7525 PMTs used by the HF calorimeter.
PMT SYSTEM
The PMT systems of the HF calorimeter have been adopted for the ZDC. The air-
core light guide of the hadronic section design is based on studies performed by the 
HF group at the University of Iowa. These studies show that the diffusion of light due 
to the mixer is optimum. Thus the 20% variation in quantum efficiency that might be 
expected as a result of the non-uniform response of various fibers is reduced to a few 
percent as a result of utilization of the mixer. The PMTs for the ZDC are eight-stage 
Hamamatsu R7525 phototubes with bi-alkali photocathodes, resulting in an average
quantum efficiency for Cherenkov light of about 10%. The resistive chain high voltage 
base (ratio “B”) is optimized to achieve a high gain and the maximum dynamic range 
of linearity (linearity is on the level of 2% for dynamic range of up to 103). The PMT 
and base are housed in a shielding enclosure (housing). All housing components,
except for the -metal shields, are fabricated in the University of Kansas (KU) physics 
machine shop.
PROTOTYPING
An engineering mechanical prototype was designed and constructed at KU. The test 
module design was virtually identical to one quarter of the HAD section design (one 
longitudinal tower). The module was used to establish assembling protocol and to 
verify the assembly tolerances and clearances. Fiber routing and fiber ribbons 
preparation was also studied with the first mechanical prototype. Experience gained 
through these studies was important in establishing the final fiber routing scheme and 
fiber ribbon design.
FIGURE 2. Picture showing the mechanical prototype of one longitudinal tower of the HAD section.
In consultation with the LHC integration group, many of the details of how to 
install the ZDC were worked out this year. A dummy ZDC was made from plastic and 
successfully inserted into the two TANs that will be used for CMS. Finally a wooden 
full scale copy of a TAN has been constructed at CERN to help sort out installation 
issues on the surface.
PERFORMANCE
The ZDC sections have been studied with both stand-alone simulations and CMS 
GEANT4 simulations. These studies have been directed both towards optimization of 
the calorimeter design and towards understanding the detector performance. Following 
the simulation studies, we have fixed the main version of the converter for the EM 
section to be 33 tungsten plates with a thickness of 2 mm (~19Xo) and quartz fibers 
with a core diameter of 0.6 mm. We required that the energy resolution should be 
better than 10% for 50 GeV photons and that the calorimeter should be linear within 
2% in the energy range from 10 GeV to 100 GeV. The simulation shows that a 
calorimeter with this geometry meets our requirements. The resulting energy 
resolution is displayed in Fig. 3.
FIGURE 3. Energy resolution of the ZDC electromagnetic section.
The transverse cell size (in the horizontal plane) for the electromagnetic calorimeter 
is fixed at ~18 mm. This ensures that the main energy deposition from a single particle 
occurs in one cell. The 50 GeV photon shower profile is given in Fig. 4. The width of 
the shower is ~5 mm and the separation of two particles with a relative distance of 
about 2 cm in the horizontal plane at the entrance to the calorimeter is easy to 
distinguish. The standard technique of shower-profile fitting can be applied to separate 
closer showers. In practice, this position resolution will allow measurement of the 
beam crossing angle with a resolution of ~10 mrad.
FIGURE 4. The 50 GeV photon shower profile in the EM section of ZDC.
The ZDC hadronic section will be in the very forward region, and thus the 
calorimeter needs to be quite dense so as to absorb hadrons with an energy of a few 
TeV. The choice of tungsten as the passive material meets this requirement. We have 
studied different tungsten plate thickness varying from 5 mm to 20 mm and we did not 
find significant changes in energy resolution for energies in the region from 500 GeV 
to 3 TeV. For quartz fibers with core diameter of 0.6 mm the energy resolution will be 
in the range 10% ± 2%, which is better than our requirement of 15% for 3 TeV. For 
practical reasons, such as the number of tungsten plates, the number of fiber ribbons,
and the limited space, we chose 15.5 mm tungsten plates as the absorber in the HAD 
section. The energy resolution for a calorimeter with 10 mm-thick tungsten plates is
presented in Fig. 5. 
FIGURE 5. The energy resolution of the hadronic section of ZDC. 
ELECTRONICS
The ZDC electronics includes the four major functions necessary for the 
functioning and data reading from the detector: front-end electronics, trigger 
electronics, data acquisition, and the high voltage system needed for operation of the 
phototubes. 
In the nucleus-nucleus running mode, the ZDC is a central detector for Level-1 
triggering. The standard ZDC minimum bias trigger uses a coincidence of the signals 
from the two calorimeters (right and left) on both sides of the interaction point. In 
addition, a single (or double) signal from one (or both) ZDCs will be used to trigger 
on ultraperipheral electromagnetic nucleus-nucleus interactions leading to the 
dissociation of one (or both) colliding nuclei. These coincidences are processed by the 
ZDC electronics in the counting room.
The front-end electronics, including signal processing, digitization, buffering, 
formation of an event trigger, and the first level of readout, is located in HCAL VME 
crates as close to the ZDC as possible. Because of the time delays introduced these 
crates located in the adjacent underground counting room (USC55).
There are a total of 18 readout channels for the two ZDCs. The signals from the 
ZDCs are transmitted through a long (210 m) coaxial cable to the counting room. 
Signals from the EM channels will go directly to the QIE ASIC. The signal from each 
HAD channel will be split into two signals; one signal will go to the QIE and the other 
will be summed with the other three HAD channel signals. The analog sum of the four 
signals related to each HAD section, proportional to the total energy deposition in 
each detector and proportional to the total number of spectators coming out from the
interaction, will be sent to the splitter. One output signal of the splitter will go to the 
QIE to provide a Level 1 trigger for several centrality intervals, and other signal will 
go to the input of the discriminator and then to a logic unit for coincidence. The 
coincidence of two signals from both sides of the interaction point is sensitive to most 
of the nuclear and electromagnetic cross section. Information from scalers will be used 
for tuning the interaction of beams and for defining the real-time luminosity.
INSTALLATION AND PLANS
The ZDC detector configuration necessary to accomplish all of the physics goals 
includes 2 ZDCs (two hadron sections and two electromagnetic sections). The Day 1 
detector implementation will provide physics results. The installation operation is 
scheduled to start early September of 2006. After all connections are complete, each 
section will be tested and commissioned. Testing and commissioning of the detectors 
will mainly involve HV (high voltage) system tests and LED (light emitting diode)
and laser calibrations. Each ZDC section will have been calibrated in the test beam. 
We foresee all functionality of the read-out to be tested and operational shortly after 
the cables are connected and the electronics in the counting room is functioning.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank S. J. Sanders for useful discussions and support. D. Macina, E. Tsesmelis 
and A.-L. Perrot of CERN TS/LEA provided invaluable help for the integration and 
installation of the ZDC. D. d’Enterria acknowledges support by the 6th EU 
Framework Programme (contract MEIF-CT-2005-025073). We are grateful to the 
entire US Heavy Ion group for support. This project was supported by the HENP 
Divisions of the U.S.DOE and the U.S.NSF.
REFERENCES
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2. Y. Onel, 10th International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics (CALOR 2002), Pasadena, CA, 
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Status of Zero Degree Calorimeter for CMS Experiment

The Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) is integral part of the CMS experiment, especially, for heavy ion studies. The design of the ZDC includes two independent calorimeter sections: an electromagnetic section and a hadronic section. Sampling calorimeters using tungsten and quartz fibers have been chosen for the energy measurements. An overview of the ZDC is presented along with a current status of calorimeter's preparation for Day 1 of LHC.The Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) is integral part of the CMS experiment, especially, for heavy ion studies. The design of the ZDC includes two independent calorimeter sections: an electromagnetic section and a hadronic section. Sampling calorimeters using tungsten and quartz fibers have been chosen for the energy measurements. An overview of the ZDC is presented along with a current status of calorimeter's preparation for Day 1 of LHC.The Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) is integral part of the CMS experiment, especially, for heavy ion studies. The design of the ZDC includes two independent calorimeter sections: an electromagnetic section and a hadronic section. Sampling calorimeters using tungsten and quartz fibers have been chosen for the energy measurements. An overview of the ZDC is presented along with a current status of calorimeter's preparation for Day 1 of LHC.The Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) is integral part of the CMS experiment, especially, for heavy ion studies. The design of the ZDC includes two independent calorimeter sections: an electromagnetic section and a hadronic section. Sampling calorimeters using tungsten and quartz fibers have been chosen for the energy measurements. An overview of the ZDC is presented along with a current status of calorimeter’s preparation for Day 1 of LHC

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Available on CMS information server CMS CR- 2006/041   July 21  , 2006 Status of Zero Degree Calorimeter for CMS Experiment O. A. Grachov, M.J. Murray Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA A. S. Ayan, P. Debbins, E. Norbeck, Y. Onel Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA D. d’Enterria CERN PH/EP, CH-1211 Geneva  CMS Collaboration Abstract The Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) is integral part of the CMS experiment, especially, for heavy ion studies. The design of the ZDC includes two independent calorimeter sections: an electromagnetic section and a hadronic section. Sampling calorimeters using tungsten and quartz fibers have been chosen for the energy measurements. An overview of the ZDC is presented along with a current status of calorimeter's preparation for Day 1 of LHC.    Presented at XI International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics (CALOR 06),  Chicago , June 5 – 9, 2006   2 INTRODUCTION The two Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDCs) are a major hardware contribution of the US Heavy Ion group to the CMS experiment. The ZDCs will measure neutrons and very forward photons for the heavy-ion and low-luminosity (up to 1033 cm-2s-1) pp collisions. The design is robust, as simple as possible and based on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) ZDC design [1], which showed highly successful performance for the four RHIC BNL experiments: BRAHMS, PHOBOS, PHENIX and STAR. The ZDCs will provide reliable measurements of real-time luminosity, beam tuning and accelerator monitoring during A+A, p+A, and p+p running. In the A+A mode, the measured coincidence rate of forward-backward neutron signals emitted in the decay of the Coulomb excited colliding ions can be used to determine the absolute A+A luminosity. The ZDCs, in addition, will help to discriminate effectively against beam-residual gas backgrounds and complement other available methods for commissioning the proton and ion beams at the LHC.  The event-by-event determination of the heavy-ion collision centrality is a basic prerequisite for any physics measurement of A+A reactions. The centrality of A+A reactions determines the degree of overlapping of the colliding nuclei and, thus, the maximum energy density reached in the interaction. Because the ZDCs are sensitive to “spectator” neutrons, they are important detectors for measurements of reaction centrality. The combination of ZDCs measuring the energy of forward neutrons, together with other multiplicity detectors at more central rapidity, has become the standard method for determining reaction centrality in A+A collisions at RHIC.  The ZDCs have been proven at RHIC to be of paramount importance for triggering and tagging UPC (ultra peripheral collision) events by measuring the forward neutrons issuing from the Coulomb-excited-nucleus dissociation.  For the photon measurement, it is necessary to have an electromagnetic zero-degree calorimeter in front of the neutron zero-degree calorimeter. The “standard” Pomeron-Pomeron diffractive A+A collision leading to central particle production and forward nucleus dissociation will not only be a background for γ+γ and γ+A processes but also a signal in their own right, accessible to study with the ZDC.  MECHANICAL AND  OPTICAL DESIGN In order to measure neutrons and very forward photons the calorimeter will be placed downstream of the first beam dipole magnet in the straight section and between the two beam pipes. In CMS this region is located ~140 m on each side of the interaction vertex inside the neutral particle absorber (TAN), designed to protect LHC magnets by limiting their absorbed dose. This neutral particle absorber was built with a detector slot of 1 m length, 96 mm width and 607 mm height, into which are inserted 90 cm length copper absorber bars and a transversally segmented ionizing chamber (proton-proton luminosity monitor). The design of each individual ZDC includes two independent calorimeter sections, the electromagnetic section (EM section) and the hadronic section (HAD section). These sections replace the copper absorbers (see Fig. 1).  The ZDC calorimeter sections are sampling calorimeters with the core of each structure consisting of a tungsten-plate/quartz-fiber-ribbon stack. A significant advantage of this technology is that the calorimeter is compact, extremely fast, and radiation hard. Quartz fibers were chosen as the active media of the ZDC calorimeters because of their unique radiation hardness features and the intrinsic speed of the Cherenkov effect. The quartz-quartz fibers can withstand up to 30 GRad with only a few percent loss in transparency in the wavelength range of 300 nm to 425 nm. The Cherenkov light generated by charged particles passing through the fibers is brought to photomultiplier tubes (PMT).  The HAD section consists of 24 layers of 15.5 mm thick tungsten plates and 24 layers of 0.7 mm diameter quartz fibers. The EM section is made of 33 layers of 2 mm thick tungsten plates and 33 layers of 0.7 mm diameter quartz fibers. The hadronic section is longitudinally segmented into 4 readout segments of ~1.4 nuclear interaction length each. The tungsten plates are tilted by 45°.The fibers of each individual tungsten/quartz fiber cell are grouped together to form readout bundles. The four fiber bundles are coupled to four photomultiplier tubes via long air core lightguides which provide optical mixing and matching of the fiber bundle to the photocathode.  The electromagnetic section is segmented into 5 horizontal (transverse) individual readout towers. The tungsten plates are oriented vertically. The fibers from each individual tower are grouped together to form a readout tower bundle. These are each coupled directly to the PMT. All calorimeter sections will be instrumented with the same type of PMT, R7525, used in the HF (forward hadronic) calorimeter. The physical characteristics of the ZDC are summarized in Table 1.                             FIGURE 1. Schematic illustration of the TAN detector slot showing the location of the p-p luminosity monitor and the ZDC (EM section and HAD section).    TABLE 1.  The Physical Characteristics of ZDC.  Hadronic Section Electromagnetic Section Sampling Ratio 15.5 mm W/0.7 mm QF 2 mm W/0.7 mm QF Number of Cells 24 33 Interaction (Rad.) Length 5.6 o (19Xo) Number of Channels 4 longitudinal segments 5 horizontal divisions Module Size (W x L x H), mm 92 x 711 x 705 92 x 116 x 705 Weight of  Module, kg ~400 ~65  Tungsten/quartz sampling calorimeters of this type have been successfully used in a number of colliding beam and fixed target experiments, and as a consequence, the technology is well known [2]. Recent examples of detectors incorporating this technology include the zero degree calorimeters for the four heavy-ion experiments at RHIC. Much of the technology employed in the optical and mechanical design of CMS ZDC has its origins in the original research and development conducted for the ZDCs of RHIC and the HF calorimeter of the CMS experiment at the LHC, including the preparation of the optical components (quartz optical fibers, optical lightguides) and the characterization of the phototubes.  3 RADIATION ENVIRONMENT The LHC will have 7 TeV proton beams with nominal luminosity L= 1034 cm-2s-1 and with an interaction rate of 8×108s-1. The power density, power dissipation, particle fluxes and spectra, accumulated dose and residual dose rates for the TAN neutral absorber have been evaluated by means of the DPMJET event generator for p-p collisions based on the MARS code [3]. During the pp runs with luminosity L= 1033 cm-2s-1 the expected average absorbed radiation dose will be of about 18 GRad/year. Whereas, for a one-month PbPb run the expected averaged absorbed dose will be ~30 MRad. To avoid radiation damage of the optical fibers, the ZDC will only be installed during the heavy-ion runs and the first low-luminosity p-p runs. The phototubes will be located about ~500 mm above the beam line and ~140 m from the interaction point. According to estimates, the radiation environment will be on the same level as for the PMTs of the HF calorimeter (~10 krad/yr for the design p-p luminosity of 1034 cm-2s-1). This dose is permitting the use of the same Hamamatsu R7525 PMTs used by the HF calorimeter. PMT SYSTEM The PMT systems of the HF calorimeter have been adopted for the ZDC. The air-core light guide of the hadronic section design is based on studies performed by the HF group at the University of Iowa. These studies show that the diffusion of light due to the mixer is optimum. Thus the 20% variation in quantum efficiency that might be expected as a result of the non-uniform response of various fibers is reduced to a few percent as a result of utilization of the mixer. The PMTs for the ZDC are eight-stage Hamamatsu R7525 phototubes with bi-alkali photocathodes, resulting in an average quantum efficiency for Cherenkov light of about 10%. The resistive chain high voltage base (ratio “B”) is optimized to achieve a high gain and the maximum dynamic range of linearity (linearity is on the level of 2% for dynamic range of up to 103). The PMT and base are housed in a shielding enclosure (housing). All housing components, except for the μ-metal shields, are fabricated in the University of Kansas (KU) physics machine shop. PROTOTYPING An engineering mechanical prototype was designed and constructed at KU. The test module design was virtually identical to one quarter of the HAD section design (one longitudinal tower). The module was used to establish assembling protocol and to verify the assembly tolerances and clearances. Fiber routing and fiber ribbons preparation was also studied with the first mechanical prototype. Experience gained through these studies was important in establishing the final fiber routing scheme and fiber ribbon design.                  FIGURE 2. Picture showing the mechanical prototype of one longitudinal tower of the HAD section.   4 In consultation with the LHC integration group, many of the details of how to install the ZDC were worked out this year. A dummy ZDC was made from plastic and successfully inserted into the two TANs that will be used for CMS. Finally a wooden full scale copy of a TAN has been constructed at CERN to help sort out installation issues on the surface. PERFORMANCE The ZDC sections have been studied with both stand-alone simulations and CMS GEANT4 simulations. These studies have been directed both towards optimization of the calorimeter design and towards understanding the detector performance. Following the simulation studies, we have fixed the main version of the converter for the EM section to be 33 tungsten plates with a thickness of 2 mm (~19Xo) and quartz fibers with a core diameter of 0.6 mm. We required that the energy resolution should be better than 10% for 50 GeV photons and that the calorimeter should be linear within 2% in the energy range from 10 GeV to 100 GeV. The simulation shows that a calorimeter with this geometry meets our requirements. The resulting energy resolution is displayed in Fig. 3.            FIGURE 3. Energy resolution of the ZDC electromagnetic section.  The transverse cell size (in the horizontal plane) for the electromagnetic calorimeter is fixed at ~18 mm. This ensures that the main energy deposition from a single particle occurs in one cell. The 50 GeV photon shower profile is given in Fig. 4. The width of the shower is ~5 mm and the separation of two particles with a relative distance of about 2 cm in the horizontal plane at the entrance to the calorimeter is easy to distinguish. The standard technique of shower-profile fitting can be applied to separate closer showers. In practice, this position resolution will allow measurement of the beam crossing angle with a resolution of ~10 mrad.       FIGURE 4. The 50 GeV photon shower profile in the EM section of ZDC.   5 The ZDC hadronic section will be in the very forward region, and thus the calorimeter needs to be quite dense so as to absorb hadrons with an energy of a few TeV. The choice of tungsten as the passive material meets this requirement. We have studied different tungsten plate thickness varying from 5 mm to 20 mm and we did not find significant changes in energy resolution for energies in the region from 500 GeV to 3 TeV. For quartz fibers with core diameter of 0.6 mm the energy resolution will be in the range 10% ± 2%, which is better than our requirement of 15% for 3 TeV. For practical reasons, such as the number of tungsten plates, the number of fiber ribbons, and the limited space, we chose 15.5 mm tungsten plates as the absorber in the HAD section. The energy resolution for a calorimeter with 10 mm-thick tungsten plates is presented in Fig. 5.         FIGURE 5. The energy resolution of the hadronic section of ZDC.  ELECTRONICS The ZDC electronics includes the four major functions necessary for the functioning and data reading from the detector: front-end electronics, trigger electronics, data acquisition, and the high voltage system needed for operation of the phototubes.  In the nucleus-nucleus running mode, the ZDC is a central detector for Level-1 triggering. The standard ZDC minimum bias trigger uses a coincidence of the signals from the two calorimeters (right and left) on both sides of the interaction point. In addition, a single (or double) signal from one (or both) ZDCs will be used to trigger on ultraperipheral electromagnetic nucleus-nucleus interactions leading to the dissociation of one (or both) colliding nuclei. These coincidences are processed by the ZDC electronics in the counting room. The front-end electronics, including signal processing, digitization, buffering, formation of an event trigger, and the first level of readout, is located in HCAL VME crates as close to the ZDC as possible. Because of the time delays introduced these crates located in the adjacent underground counting room (USC55).There are a total of 18 readout channels for the two ZDCs. The signals from the ZDCs are transmitted through a long (210 m) coaxial cable to the counting room. Signals from the EM channels will go directly to the QIE ASIC. The signal from each HAD channel will be split into two signals; one signal will go to the QIE and the other will be summed with the other three HAD channel signals. The analog sum of the four signals related to each HAD section, proportional to the total energy deposition in each detector and proportional to the total number of spectators coming out from the interaction, will be sent to the splitter. One output signal of the splitter will go to the QIE to provide a Level 1 trigger for several centrality intervals, and other signal will go to the input of the discriminator and then to a logic unit for coincidence. The coincidence of two signals from both sides of the interaction point is sensitive to most of the nuclear and electromagnetic cross section. Information from scalers will be used for tuning the interaction of beams and for defining the real-time luminosity. 6 7 INSTALLATION AND  PLANS The ZDC detector configuration necessary to accomplish all of the physics goals includes 2 ZDCs (two hadron sections and two electromagnetic sections). The Day 1 detector implementation will provide physics results. The installation operation is scheduled to start early September of 2006. After all connections are complete, each section will be tested and commissioned. Testing and commissioning of the detectors will mainly involve HV (high voltage) system tests and LED (light emitting diode) and laser calibrations. Each ZDC section will have been calibrated in the test beam. We foresee all functionality of the read-out to be tested and operational shortly after the cables are connected and the electronics in the counting room is functioning. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank S. J. Sanders for useful discussions and support. D. Masina, E. Tsesmelis and A.-L. Perrot of CERN TS/LEA provided invaluable help for the integration and installation of the ZDC. D. d’Enterria acknowledges support by the 6th EU Framework Programme (contract MEIF-CT-2005-025073). We are grateful to the entire US Heavy Ion group for support. This project was supported by the HENP Divisions of the U.S.DOE and the U.S.NSF. REFERENCES 1. C. Adler et al., Phys. Rev. Lett 89, 272302 (2002);       A. Denisov et al., Nucl. Phys. A698,  551 (2002). 2. Y. Onel, 10th International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics (CALOR 2002), Pasadena, CA, 25-30 March 2002;        N. Akchurin and R. Wigmans, Rev.Sci.Instrum 74, 2955-2972 (2003). 3. N. V. Mokhov et al., FERMILAB-FN-732.  

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