Validation of GEANT4 Monte Carlo Models with a Highly Granular Scintillator-Steel Hadron Calorimeter
Abstract
Calorimeters with a high granularity are a fundamental requirement of the Particle Flow paradigm. This paper focuses on the prototype of a hadron calorimeter with analog readout, consisting of thirty-eight scintillator layers alternating with steel absorber planes. The scintillator plates are finely segmented into tiles individually read out via Silicon Photomultipliers. The presented results are based on data collected with pion beams in the energy range from 8GeV to 100GeV. The fine segmentation of the sensitive layers and the high sampling frequency allow for an excellent reconstruction of the spatial development of hadronic showers. A comparison between data and Monte Carlo simulations is presented, concerning both the longitudinal and lateral development of hadronic showers and the global response of the calorimeter. The performance of several GEANT4 physics lists with respect to these observables is evaluated.
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@article{arxiv.1306.3037,
title = {Validation of GEANT4 Monte Carlo Models with a Highly Granular Scintillator-Steel Hadron Calorimeter},
author = {C. Adloff and J. Blaha and J. -J. Blaising and C. Drancourt and A. Espargilière and R. Gaglione and N. Geffroy and Y. Karyotakis and J. Prast and G. Vouters and K. Francis and J. Repond and J. Schlereth and J. Smith and L. Xia and E. Baldolemar and J. Li and S. T. Park and M. Sosebee and A. P. White and J. Yu and T. Buanes and G. Eigen and Y. Mikami and N. K. Watson and G. Mavromanolakis and M. A. Thomson and D. R. Ward and W. Yan and D. Benchekroun and A. Hoummada and Y. Khoulaki and J. Apostolakis and A. Dotti and G. Folger and V. Ivantchenko and V. Uzhinskiy and M. Benyamna and C. Cârloganu and F. Fehr and P. Gay and S. Manen and L. Royer and G. C. Blazey and A. Dyshkant and J. G. R. Lima and V. Zutshi and J. -Y. Hostachy and L. Morin and U. Cornett and D. David and G. Falley and K. Gadow and P. Göttlicher and C. Günter and B. Hermberg and S. Karstensen and F. Krivan and A. -I. Lucaci-Timoce and S. Lu and B. Lutz and S. Morozov and V. Morgunov and M. Reinecke and F. Sefkow and P. Smirnov and M. Terwort and A. Vargas-Trevino and N. Feege and E. Garutti and I. Marchesinik and M. Ramilli and P. Eckert and T. Harion and A. Kaplan and H. -Ch. Schultz-Coulon and W. Shen and R. Stamen and B. Bilki and E. Norbeck and Y. Onel and G. W. Wilson and K. Kawagoe and P. D. Dauncey and A. -M. Magnan and V. Bartsch and M. Wing and F. Salvatore and E. Calvo Alamillo and M. -C. Fouz and J. Puerta-Pelayo and B. Bobchenko and M. Chadeeva and M. Danilov and A. Epifantsev and O. Markin and R. Mizuk and E. Novikov and V. Popov and V. Rusinov and E. Tarkovsky and N. Kirikova and V. Kozlov and P. Smirnov and Y. Soloviev and P. Buzhan and A. Ilyin and V. Kantserov and V. Kaplin and A. Karakash and E. Popova and V. Tikhomirov and C. Kiesling and K. Seidel and F. Simon and C. Soldner and M. Szalay and M. Tesar and L. Weuste and M. S. Amjad and J. Bonis and S. Callier and S. Conforti di Lorenzo and P. Cornebise and Ph. Doublet and F. Dulucq and J. Fleury and T. Frisson and N. van der Kolk and H. Li and G. Martin-Chassard and F. Richard and Ch. de la Taille and R. Pöschl and L. Raux and J. Rouëné and N. Seguin-Moreau and M. Anduze and V. Boudry and J-C. Brient and D. Jeans and P. Mora de Freitas and G. Musat and M. Reinhard and M. Ruan and H. Videau and B. Bulanek and J. Zacek and J. Cvach and P. Gallus and M. Havranek and M. Janata and J. Kvasnicka and D. Lednicky 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 B. Belhorma and H. Ghazlane and T. Takeshita and S. Uozumi and M. Götze and O. Hartbrich and J. Sauer and S. Weber and C. Zeitnitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3037},
year = {2014}
}