Construction and Commissioning of the CALICE Analog Hadron Calorimeter Prototype
Abstract
An analog hadron calorimeter (AHCAL) prototype of 5.3 nuclear interaction lengths thickness has been constructed by members of the CALICE Collaboration. The AHCAL prototype consists of a 38-layer sandwich structure of steel plates and highly-segmented scintillator tiles that are read out by wavelength-shifting fibers coupled to SiPMs. The signal is amplified and shaped with a custom-designed ASIC. A calibration/monitoring system based on LED light was developed to monitor the SiPM gain and to measure the full SiPM response curve in order to correct for non-linearity. Ultimately, the physics goals are the study of hadron shower shapes and testing the concept of particle flow. The technical goal consists of measuring the performance and reliability of 7608 SiPMs. The AHCAL was commissioned in test beams at DESY and CERN. The entire prototype was completed in 2007 and recorded hadron showers, electron showers and muons at different energies and incident angles in test beams at CERN and Fermilab.
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@article{arxiv.1003.2662,
title = {Construction and Commissioning of the CALICE Analog Hadron Calorimeter Prototype},
author = {C. Adloff and Y. Karyotakis and J. Repond and A. Brandt and H. Brown and K. De and C. Medina and J. Smith and J. Li and M. Sosebee and A. White and J. Yu and T. Buanes and G. Eigen and Y. Mikami and O. Miller and N. K. Watson and J. A. Wilson and T. Goto and G. Mavromanolakis and M. A. Thomson and D. R. Ward and W. Yan and D. Benchekroun and A. Hoummada and Y. Khoulaki and M. Oreglia and M. Benyamna and C. Cârloganu and P. Gay and J. Ha and G. C. Blazey and D. Chakraborty and A. Dyshkant and K. Francis and D. Hedin and G. Lima and V. Zutshi and V. A. Babkin and S. N. Bazylev and Yu. I. Fedotov and V. M. Slepnev and I. A. Tiapkin and S. V. Volgin and J. -Y. Hostachy and L. Morin and N. D?Ascenzo and U. Cornett and D. David and R. Fabbri and G. Falley and N. Feege and K. Gadow and E. Garutti and P. Göttlicher and T. Jung and S. Karstensen and V. Korbel and A. -I. Lucaci-Timoce and B. Lutz and N. Meyer and V. Morgunov and M. Reinecke and S. Schätzel and S. Schmidt and F. Sefkow and P. Smirnov and A. Vargas-Trevino and N. Wattimena and O. Wendt and M. Groll and R. -D. Heuer and S. Richter and J. Samson and A. Kaplan and H. -Ch. Schultz-Coulon and W. Shen and A. Tadday and B. Bilki and E. Norbeck and Y. Onel and E. J. Kim and G. Kim and D-W. Kim and K. Lee and S. C. Lee and K. Kawagoe and Y. Tamura and J. A. Ballin and P. D. Dauncey and A. -M. Magnan and H. Yilmaz and O. Zorba and V. Bartsch and M. Postranecky and M. Warren and M. Wing and M. Faucci Giannelli and M. G. Green and F. Salvatore and R. Kieffer and I. Laktineh and M. C Fouz and D. S. Bailey and R. J. Barlow and R. J. Thompson and M. Batouritski and O. Dvornikov and Yu. Shulhevich and N. Shumeiko and A. Solin and P. Starovoitov and V. Tchekhovski and A. Terletski and B. Bobchenko and M. Chadeeva and M. Danilov and O. Markin and R. Mizuk and V. Morgunov and E. Novikov and V. Rusinov and E. Tarkovsky and V. Andreev and N. Kirikova and A. Komar and V. Kozlov and P. Smirnov and Y. Soloviev and A. Terkulov and P. Buzhan and B. Dolgoshein and A. Ilyin and V. Kantserov and V. Kaplin and A. Karakash and E. Popova and S. Smirnov and N. Baranova and E. Boos and L. Gladilin and D. Karmanov and M. Korolev and M. Merkin and A. Savin and A. Voronin and A. Topkar and A. Freyk and C. Kiesling and S. Lu and K. Prothmann and K. Seidel and F. Simon and C. Soldner and L. Weuste and B. Bouquet and S. Callier and P. Cornebise and F. Dulucq and J. Fleury and H. Li and G. Martin-Chassard and F. Richard and Ch. de la Taille and R. Poeschl and L. Raux and M. Ruan and N. Seguin-Moreau and F. Wicek and M. Anduze and V. Boudry and J-C. Brient and G. Gaycken and R. Cornat and D. Jeans and P. Mora de Freitas and G. Musat and M. Reinhard and A. Rougé and J-Ch. Vanel and H. Videau and K-H. Park and J. Zacek and J. Cvach and P. Gallus and M. Havranek and M. Janata and J. Kvasnicka and M. Marcisovsky and I. Polak and J. Popule and L. Tomasek and M. Tomasek and P. Ruzicka and P. Sicho and J. Smolik and V. Vrba and J. Zalesak and Yu. Arestov and V. Ammosov and B. Chuiko and V. Gapienko and Y. Gilitski and V. Koreshev and A. Semak and Yu. Sviridov and V. Zaets and B. Belhorma and M. Belmir and A. Baird and R. N. Halsall and S. W. Nam and I. H. Park and J. Yang and Jong-Seo Chai and Jong-Tae Kim and Geun-Bum Kim and Y. Kim and J. Kang and Y. -J. Kwon and Ilgoo Kim and Taeyun Lee and Jaehong Park and Jinho Sung and S. Itoh and K. Kotera and M. Nishiyama and T. Takeshita and S. Weber and C. Zeitnitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.2662},
year = {2016}
}
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36 pages, 32 figures