Design studies and first crystal tests for the R 3B calorimeter

A calorimeter for the detection of gammas and lip-lit charged particles is devised within the R B-3 setup. It features high resolution, large absorption efficiency and good gamma sum energy resolution and multiplicity determination. In the article We include a brief description of the proposed calorimeter geometry, the simulation package developed for the analysis of the calorimeter response and the first crystal tests performed in our laboratory at the USC. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.