DHCAL with Minimal Absorber: Measurements with Positrons
Instrumentation and Detectors
2016-06-22 v1
Abstract
In special tests, the active layers of the CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter prototype, the DHCAL, were exposed to low energy particle beams, without being interleaved by absorber plates. The thickness of each layer corresponded approximately to 0.29 radiation lengths or 0.034 nuclear interaction lengths, defined mostly by the copper and steel skins of the detector cassettes. This paper reports on measurements performed with this device in the Fermilab test beam with positrons in the energy range of 1 to 10 GeV. The measurements are compared to simulations based on GEANT4 and a standalone program to emulate the detailed response of the active elements.
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@article{arxiv.1603.01652,
title = {DHCAL with Minimal Absorber: Measurements with Positrons},
author = {The CALICE Collaboration and B. Freund and C. Neubüser and J. Repond and J. Schlereth and L. Xia and A. Dotti and C. Grefe and V. Ivantchenko and J. Berenguer Antequera and E. Calvo Alamillo and M. -C. Fouz and J. Marin and J. Puerta-Pelayo and A. Verdugo and E. Brianne and A. Ebrahimi and K. Gadow and P. Göttlicher and C. Günter and O. Hartbrich and B. Hermberg and A. Irles and F. Krivan and K. Krüger and J. Kvasnicka and S. Lu and B. Lutz and V. Morgunov and A. Provenza and M. Reinecke and F. Sefkow and S. Schuwalow and H. L. Tran and E. Garutti and S. Laurien and M. Matysek and M. Ramilli and S. Schroeder and B. Bilki and E. Norbeck and D. Northacker and Y. Onel and J. Cvach and P. Gallus and M. Havranek and M. Janata and M. Kovalcuk and J. Kvasnicka and D. Lednicky and M. Marcisovsky and I. Polak and J. Popule and L. Tomasek and M. Tomasek and P. Sicho and J. Smolik and V. Vrba and J. Zalesak and B. van Doren and G. W. Wilson and K. Kawagoe and Y. Miyazaki and Y. Sudo and T. Suehara and T. Tomita and H. Ueno and T. Yoshioka and S. Bilokin and J. Bonis and P. Cornebise and R. Pöschl and F. Richard and A. Thiebault and D. Zerwas and J. -Y. Hostachy and L. Morin and D. Besson and M. Chadeeva and M. Danilov and O. Markin and E. Popova and M. Gabriel and P. Goecke and C. Kiesling and N. van der Kolk and F. Simon and M. Szalay and F. Corriveau and G. C. Blazey and A. Dyshkant and K. Francis and V. Zutshi and K. Kotera and H. Ono and T. Takeshita and S. Ieki and Y. Kamiya and W. Ootani and N. Shibata and D. Jeans and S. Komamiya and H. Nakanishi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01652},
year = {2016}
}