Design, Construction and Commissioning of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter - DHCAL
Abstract
A novel hadron calorimeter is being developed for future lepton colliding beam detectors. The calorimeter is optimized for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) to the measurement of hadronic jets and features a very finely segmented readout with 1 x 1 cm2 cells. The active media of the calorimeter are Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) with a digital, i.e. one-bit, readout. To first order the energy of incident particles in this calorimeter is reconstructed as being proportional to the number of pads with a signal over a given threshold. A large-scale prototype calorimeter with approximately 500,000 readout channels has been built and underwent extensive testing in the Fermilab and CERN test beams. This paper reports on the design, construction, and commissioning of this prototype calorimeter.
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@article{arxiv.1603.01653,
title = {Design, Construction and Commissioning of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter - DHCAL},
author = {C. Adams and A. Bambaugh and B. Bilki and J. Butler and F. Corriveau and T. Cundiff and G. Drake and K. Francis and B. Furst and V. Guarino and B. Haberichter and E. Hazen and J. Hoff and S. Holm and A. Kreps and P. DeLurgio and Z. Matijas and L. Dal Monte and N. Mucia and E. Norbeck and D. Northacker and Y. Onel and B. Pollack and J. Repond and J. Schlereth and F. Skrzecz and J. R. Smith and D. Trojand and D. Underwood and M. Velasco and J. Walendziak and K. Wood and S. Wu and L. Xia and Q. Zhang and A. Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01653},
year = {2016}
}