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First performance studies of a prototype for the CASTOR forward calorimeter at the CMS experiment

We present results on the performance of the first prototype of the CASTOR quartz-tungsten sampling calorimeter, to be installed in the very forward region of the CMS experiment at the LHC. This study includes GEANT Monte Carlo simulations…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 X. Aslanoglou , A. Cyz , N. Davis , D. d'Enterria , E. Gladysz-Dziadus , C. Kalfas , Y. Musienko , A. Kuznetsov , A. D. Panagiotou

Physics Potential of the CMS CASTOR Forward Calorimeter

The CASTOR calorimeter is a detector covering the very forward region of the CMS experiment at the LHC. It surrounds the beam pipe with 14 longitudinal modules each of which consisting of 16 azimuthal sectors and allows to reconstruct…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Dmytro Volyanskyy

The CASTOR calorimeter at the CMS experiment

The CASTOR Calorimeter at the CMS experiment is an electromagnetic/hadronic calorimeter which covers the very forward region of the detector (-6.6 < eta < -5.2). CASTOR is a Cherenkov sampling calorimeter, consisting of quartz and tungsten…

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The very forward CASTOR calorimeter of the CMS experiment

The physics motivation, detector design, triggers, calibration, alignment, simulation, and overall performance of the very forward CASTOR calorimeter of the CMS experiment are reviewed. The CASTOR Cherenkov sampling calorimeter is located…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-11 CMS Collaboration

Design and Performance of a Silicon Tungsten Calorimeter Prototype Module and the Associated Readout

We describe the details of a silicon-tungsten prototype electromagnetic calorimeter module and associated readout electronics. Detector performance for this prototype has been measured in test beam experiments at the CERN PS and SPS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-10 T. Awes , C. L. Britton , T. Chujo , T. Cormier , M. N. Ericson , N. B. Ezell , D. Fehlker , S. S. Frank , Y. Fukuda , T. Gunji , T. Hachiya , H. Hamagaki , S. Hayashi , M. Hirano , R. Hosokawa , M. Inaba , K. Ito , Y. Kawamura , D. Kawana , B. Kim , S. Kudo , C. Loizides , Y. Miake , G. Nooren , N. Novitzky , T. Peitzmann , K. F. Read , D. Röhrich , T. Sakamoto , W. Sato , Y. Sekiguchi , M. Shimomura , D. Silvermyr , P. W. Stankus , T. Sugitate , T. Suzuki , S. Takasu , A. van den Brink , M. van Leeuwen , K. Ullaland , H. Wang , R. Warmack , S. Yang , C. Zhang

Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter prototype to charged pion beams of 20$-$300 GeV/c

The upgrade of the CMS experiment for the high luminosity operation of the LHC comprises the replacement of the current endcap calorimeter by a high granularity sampling calorimeter (HGCAL). The electromagnetic section of the HGCAL is based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-30 B. Acar , G. Adamov , C. Adloff , S. Afanasiev , N. Akchurin , B. Akgün , M. Alhusseini , J. Alison , J. P. Figueiredo de sa Sousa de Almeida , P. G. Dias de Almeida , A. Alpana , M. Alyari , I. Andreev , U. Aras , P. Aspell , I. O. Atakisi , O. Bach , A. Baden , G. Bakas , A. Bakshi , S. Banerjee , P. DeBarbaro , P. Bargassa , D. Barney , F. Beaudette , F. Beaujean , E. Becheva , A. Becker , P. Behera , A. Belloni , T. Bergauer , M. El Berni , M. Besancon , S. Bhattacharya , S. Bhattacharya , D. Bhowmik , B. Bilki , S. Bilokin , G. C. Blazey , F. Blekman , P. Bloch , A. Bodek , M. Bonanomi , J. Bonis , A. Bonnemaison , S. Bonomally , J. Borg , F. Bouyjou , N. Bower , D. Braga , L. Brennan , E. Brianne , E. Brondolin , P. Bryant , E. Buhmann , P. Buhmann , A. Butler-Nalin , O. Bychkova , S. Callier , D. Calvet , K. Canderan , K. Cankocak , X. Cao , A. Cappati , B. Caraway , S. Caregari , C. Carty , A. Cauchois , L. Ceard , D. S. 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Kuryatkov , J. Kvasnicka , S. Kyre , Y. Lai , K. Lamichhane , G. Landsberg , C. Lange , J. Langford , S. Laurien , M. Y. Lee , S. W. Lee , A. G. Stahl Leiton , A. Levin , A. Li , J. H. Li , Y. Y. Li , Z. Liang , H. Liao , Z. Lin , D. Lincoln , L. Linssen , R. Lipton , G. Liu , Y. Liu , A. Lobanov , V. Lohezic , D. Lomidze , R. S. Lu , S. Lu , M. Lupi , I. Lysova , A. -M. Magnan , F. Magniette , A. Mahjoub , S. Martens , M. Matysek , B. Meier , A. Malakhov , S. Mallios , I. Mandjavize , M. Mannelli , J. Mans , A. Marchioro , A. Martelli , G. Martinez , P. Masterson , M. Matthewman , S. N. Mayekar , A. David , S. Coco , B. Meng , A . Menkel , A. Mestvirishvili , G. Milella , I. Mirza , S. Moccia , G. B. Mohanty , F. Monti , F. W. Moortgat , I. Morrissey , J. Motta , S. Murthy , J. Musić , Y. Musienko , S. Nabili , M. Nguyen , A. Nikitenko , D. Noonan , D. Noonan , M. Noy , K. Nurdan , M. Wulansatiti Nursanto , C. Ochando , N. Odell , H. Okawa , Y. Onel , W. Ortez , J. Ozegović , S. 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Performance of the front-end electronics of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter barrel for the High-Luminosity LHC

The performance of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter upgraded readout electronics, developed for the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC, is discussed. Data collected in two beam test campaigns conducted in 2018 and 2021 at the H4 and H2…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-24 The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Group

Studies of the Response of the Prototype CMS Hadron Calorimeter, Including Magnetic Field Effects, to Pion, Electron, and Muon Beams

We report on the response of a prototype CMS hadron calorimeter module to charged particle beams of pions, muons, and electrons with momenta up to 375 GeV/c. The data were taken at the H2 and H4 beamlines at CERN in 1995 and 1996. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Abramov , B. S. Acharya , N. Akchurin , I. Atanasov , G. Baiatian , A. Ball , S. Banerjee , P. de Barbaro , V. Barnes , G. Bencze , A. Bodek , M. Booke , H. Budd , L. Cremaldi , P. Cushman , S. R. Dugad , L. Dimitrov , A. Dyshkant , J. Elias , V. N. Evdokimov , D. Fong , J. Freeman , V. Genchev , P. I. Goncharov , D. Green , A. Gurtu , V. Hagopian , P. Iaydijiev , Yu. Korneev , A. Krinitsyn , G. Krishnaswami , M. R. Krishnaswamy , V. Kryshkin , S. Kunori , A. Laasanen et. al

Performance of a Tungsten-Cerium Fluoride Sampling Calorimeter in High-Energy Electron Beam Tests

A prototype for a sampling calorimeter made out of cerium fluoride crystals interleaved with tungsten plates, and read out by wavelength-shifting fibres, has been exposed to beams of electrons with energies between 20 and 150 GeV, produced…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 R. Becker , L. Bianchini , G. Dissertori , L. Djambazov , M. Donegà , W. Lustermann , A. C. Marini , F. Nessi-Tedaldi , F. Pandolfi , M. Peruzzi , M. Schönenberger , F. Cavallari , I. Dafinei , M. Diemoz , C. Jorda Lope , P. Meridiani , M. Nuccetelli , R. Paramatti , F. Pellegrino , F. Micheli , G. Organtini , S. Rahatlou , L. Soffi , L. Brianza , P. Govoni , A. Martelli , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , V. Monti , N. Pastrone , P. P. Trapani , V. Candelise , G. Della Ricca

Measurements of very-forward energy with the CASTOR calorimeter of CMS

The very-forward energy production in hadron collisions is of paramount importance for the understanding of ultra-high energy cosmic ray air showers. The CASTOR calorimeter of CMS is located at $-6.6 < \eta < -5.2$ in the phase-space where…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-22 Sebastian Baur

Performance of a Prototype CMS Hadron Barrel Calorimeter in a Test Beam

We report on the performance of a prototype CMS Hadron Barrel Calorimeter (HCAL) module in a test beam. The prototype sampling calorimeter used copper absorber plates and scintillator tiles with wavelength shifting fibers for readout.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Arie Bodek

Description and stability of a RPC-based calorimeter in electromagnetic and hadronic shower environments

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadron Calorimeter technological prototype completed in 2011 is a sampling calorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chamber (GRPC) detectors as the active medium. This technology is one of the two options proposed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-24 D. Boumediene , V. Francais , J. Apostolakis , G. Folger , A. Ribon , E. Sicking , K. Goto , K. Kawagoe , M. Kuhara , T. Suehara , T. Yoshioka , A. Pingault , M. Tytgat , G. Garillot , G. Grenier , T. Kurca , I. Laktineh , B. Liu , B. Li , L. Mirabito , E. Calvo Alamillo , C. Carrillo , M. C. Fouz , H. Garcia Cabrera , J. Marin , J. Navarrete , J. Puerta Pelayo , A. Verdugo , A. Steen , R. Été , K. Krüger , F. Sefkow , F. Corriveau , L. Emberger , C. Graf , F. Simon , R. Pöschl , D. W. Kim , S. W. Park

Forward Physics Capabilities of CMS with the CASTOR and ZDC detectors

The two calorimeters CASTOR and ZDCs enhance the hermeticity of the CMS detector at the LHC by extending the rapidity coverage in the forward region. After having described these detectors, their forward physics capabilities are presented.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-08-04 Benoit Roland

Tests of a Digital Hadron Calorimeter

In the context of developing a hadron calorimeter with extremely fine granularity for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms to the measurement of jet energies at a future lepton collider, we report on extensive tests of a small scale…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-12 B. Bilki , John Butler , Ed May , Georgios Mavromanolakis , Edwin Norbeck , Jose Repond , David Underwood , Lei Xia , Qingmin Zhang

Timing Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype

This paper describes the experience with the calibration, reconstruction and evaluation of the timing capabilities of the CMS HGCAL prototype in the beam tests in 2018. The calibration procedure includes multiple steps and corrections…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-15 CMS HGCAL collaboration

Exposing a fibre-based dual-readout calorimeter to a positron beam

A prototype of a dual-readout calorimeter using brass capillary tubes surrounding scintillating and clear plastic optical fibres was tested using beams of particles with energies between 10 and 100 GeV produced by the CERN SPS. The scope of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-19 N. Ampilogov , S. Cometti , J. Agarwala , V. Chmill , R. Ferrari , G. Gaudio , P. Giacomelli , A. Giaz , A. Karadzhinova-Ferrer , A. Loeschcke-Centeno , A. Negri , L. Pezzotti , G. Polesello , E. Proserpio , A. Ribon , R. Santoro , I. Vivarelli

Measurement of the inclusive energy spectrum in the very forward direction in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

The differential cross section for inclusive particle production as a function of energy in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is measured in the very forward region of the CMS detector. The measurement is based…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-16 CMS Collaboration

Design and Test of a Forward Neutron Calorimeter for the ZEUS Experiment

A lead scintillator sandwich sampling calorimeter has been installed in the HERA tunnel 105.6 m from the central ZEUS detector in the proton beam direction. It is designed to measure the energy and scattering angle of neutrons produced in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The ZEUS FNC Group , S. Bhadra , I. Bohnet , M. Cardy , U. Dosselli , C. -P. Fagerstroem , W. Frisken , K. Furutani , D. Hanna , U. Holm , K. F. Johnson , M. Khakzad , G. Levman , J. N. Lim , B. Loehr , J. F. Martin , C. Muhl , T. Neumann , M. Rohde , W. B. Schmidke , D. G. Stairs , H. Tiecke , C. Voci

Energy Response and Resolution to Positrons in a Capillary-Tube Dual-Readout Calorimeter

We present the results of a test beam campaign on a capillary-tube fibre-based dual-readout calorimeter, designed for precise hadronic and electromagnetic energy measurements in future collider experiments. The calorimeter prototype…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-24 Sebastiano Francesco Albergo , Alessandro Braghieri , Alexander Burdyko , Yuchen Cai , Leonardo Carminati , Eleonora Delfrate , Davide Falchieri , Roberto Ferrari , Gabriella Gaudio , Paolo Giacomelli , Andreas Loeschcke Centeno , Elena Mazzeo , Samuele Millesoli , Laura Nasella , Andrea Negri , Andrea Pareti , Rino Persiani , Lorenzo Pezzotti , Giacomo Polesello , Fabrizio Salvatore , Romualdo Santoro , Luca Davide Tacchini , Ruggero Turra , Nicolo' Valle , Iacopo Vivarelli

A Large-Scale Pad-Sensor Based Prototype of the Silicon Tungsten Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the Forward Direction in ALICE at LHC

We constructed a large-scale electromagnetic calorimeter prototype as a part of the Forward Calorimeter upgrade project (FoCal) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The prototype, also known as ``Mini FoCal'',…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-19 R. G. E. Barthel , T. Chujo , T. Hachiya , M. Hatakeyama , Y. Hoshi , M. Inaba , Y. , Kawamura , D. Kawana , C. Loizides , Y. Miake , Y. Minato , K. Nakagawa , N. Novitzky , T. Peitzmann , M. Rossewij , M. Shimomura , T. Sugitate , T. Suzuki , K. Tadokoro , M. Takamura , S. Takasu , A. van den Brink , M. van Leeuwen