Related papers: Overview of the DHCAL Project

Construction and commissioning of a technological prototype of a high-granularity semi-digital hadronic calorimeter

A large prototype of 1.3m3 was designed and built as a demonstrator of the semi-digital hadronic calorimeter (SDHCAL) concept proposed for the future ILC experiments. The prototype is a sampling hadronic calorimeter of 48 units. Each unit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-27 G. Baulieu , M. Bedjidian , K. Belkadhi , J. Berenguer , V. Boudry , P. Calabria , S. Callier , E. Calvo Almillo , S. Cap , L. Caponetto , C. Combaret , R. Cornat , E. Cortina Gil , B. de Callatay , F. Davin , C. de la Taille , R. Dellanegra , D. Delaunay , F. Doizon , F. Dulucq , A. Eynard , M-C. Fouz , F. Gastaldi , L. Germani , G. Grenier , Y. Haddad , R. Han , J-C. Ianigro , R. Kieffer , I. Laktineh , N. Lumb , K. Manai , S. Mannai , H. Mathez , L. Mirabito , J. Prast , J. Puerta Pelayo , M. Ruan , F. Schirra , N. Seguin-Moreau , A. Steen , W. Tromeur , M. Tytgat , M. Vander Donckt , G. Vouters , N. Zaganidis

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

The T-SDHCAL Hadronic Calorimeter for a Future Higgs factory

The CALICE technological RPC-based SDHCAL prototype that fullfils all the requirements of compactness, hermeticity and power budget of the future lepton accelerator experiments, has been extensively tested and has provided excellent results…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-07 M. Tytgat , C. Combaret , C. Devanne , G. Garillot , G. Grenier , I. Laktineh , L. Mirabito , T. Pasquier , M. C. Fouz , H. J. Yang , W. Wu , Y. Tan , Y. Baek , D. Kim , J. Kim

Performance of Glass Resistive Plate Chambers for a high granularity semi-digital calorimeter

A new design of highly granular hadronic calorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chambers (GRPCs) with embedded electronics has been proposed for the future International Linear Collider (ILC) experiments. It features a 2-bit threshold…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-02-18 M. Bedjidian , K. Belkadhi , V. Boudry , C. Combaret , D. Decotigny , E. Cortina Gil , C. de la Taille , R. Dellanegra , V. A. Gapienko , G. Grenier , C. Jauffret , R. Kieffer , M. -C. Fouz , R. Han , I. Laktineh , N. Lumb , K. Manai , S. Mannai , H. Mathez , L. Mirabito , J. Puerta Pelayo , M. Ruan , F. Schirra , N. Seguin-Moreau , W. Tromeur , M. Tytgat , M. Vander Donckt , N. Zaganidis

Commissioning of the new multi-layer integration prototype of the CALICE tile hadron calorimeter

The basic prototype of a tile hadron calorimeter (HCAL) for the International Linear Collider (ILC) has been realised and extensively tested. A major aspect of the proposed concept is the improvement of the jet energy resolution by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-10 Aliakbar Ebrahimi

First results of the CALICE SDHCAL technological prototype

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype, built in 2011, was exposed to beams of hadrons, electrons and muons in two short periods in 2012 on two different beam lines of the CERN SPS. The prototype with its 48 active…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-04 V. Buridon , C. Combaret , L. Caponetto , R. Eté , G. Garillot , G. Grenier , R. Han , J. C. Ianigro , R. Kieffer , I. Laktineh , N. Lumb , H. Mathez , L. Mirabito , A. Petrukhin , A. Steen , J. Berenguer Antequera , E. Calvo Alamillo , M. -C. Fouz , J. Marin , J. Puerta-Pelayo , A. Verdugo , E. Cortina Gil , S. Mannai , S. Cauwenbergh , M. Tytgat , A. Pingault , N. Zaganidis , M. Anduze , V. Balagura , K. Belkadhi , V. Boudry , J-C. Brient , R. Cornat , M. Frotin , F. Gastaldi , Y. Haddad , M. Ruan , K. Shpak , H. Videau , D. Yu , S. Callier , S. Conforti di Lorenzo , F. Dulucq , G. Martin-Chassard , Ch. de la Taille , L. Raux , N. Seguin-Moreau , D. Boumediene , C. Carloganu , V. Français , J. Bonis , B. Bouquet , P. Cornebise , Ph. Doublet , M. Faucci-Giannelli , T. Frisson , G. Guilhem , H. Li , F. Richard , R. Pöschl , J. Rouëné , F. Wicek , Z. Zhang , Z. Deng , Y. Li , Y. Wang , Q. Yue , Z. Yang , G. Cho , D-W. Kim , S. C. Lee , W. Park , S. Vallecorsa , E. Brianne , A. Ebrahimi , K. Gadow , P. Göttlicher , C. Günter , O. Hartbrich , B. Hermberg , A. Irles , F. Krivan , K. Krüger , J. Kvasnicka , S. Lu , B. Lutz , V. Morgunov , C. Neubüser A. Provenza , M. Reinecke , F. Sefkow , S. Schuwalow , H. L. Tran , E. Garutti , S. Laurien , M. Matysek , M. Ramilli , S. Schroeder , B. Bilki , E. Norbeck , D. Northacker , Y. Onel , N. Kirikova , V. Kozlov , P. Smirnov , Y. Soloviev , M. Chadeeva , M. Danilov , M. Gabriel , P. Goecke , C. Kiesling , N. van der Kolk , F. Simon , C. Soldner , M. Szalay , L. Weuste , D. Jeans , S. Komamiya , H. Nakanishi , D. Benchekroun , A. Hoummada , Y. Khoulaki

Hadron Showers in a Digital Hadron Calorimeter

A small prototype of a finely granulated digital hadron calorimeter with Resistive Plate Chambers as active elements was exposed to positive pions of 1 >. 16 GeV energy from the Fermilab test beam. The event selection separates events with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-14 Burak Bilki , John Butler , Georgios Mavromanolakis , Ed May , Edwin Norbeck , Jose Repond , David Underwood , Lei Xia , Qingmin Zhang

CALICE Second Generation AHCAL Developments

The CALICE Collaboration is developing and commissioning a technological prototype of a hadronic sandwich calorimeter with approximately 2500 scintillating plates, individually read out by multi-pixel silicon photomultipliers. The new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-07-15 Riccardo Fabbri

Performance of a Highly Granular Scintillator-SiPM Based Hadron Calorimeter Prototype in Strong Magnetic Fields

Within the CALICE collaboration, several concepts for the hadronic calorimeter of a future linear collider detector are studied. After having demonstrated the capabilities of the measurement methods in "physics prototypes", the focus now…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-26 Christian Graf

Operation and Calibration of a Highly Granular Hadron Calorimeter with SiPM-on-Tile Read-out

The Analogue Hadron Calorimeter (AHCAL) is being developed within the CALICE collaboration for experiments at a future lepton collider. It is a sampling calorimeter with alternating layers of steel absorber plates and plastic scintillator…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-02 Olin Pinto

Test beam studies for a highly granular GRPC Semi-Digital HCAL

The Particle Flow Analysis approach retained for the future ILC detectors requires high granularity and compact particle energy deposition. A Glass Resistive Plate Chamber based Semi-Digital calorimeter can offer both at a low price for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Vincent Boudry

Energy reconstruction of hadronic showers at the CERN PS and SPS using the Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) is the first technological prototype in a family of high-granularity calorimeters developed by the CALICE Collaboration to equip the experiments of future lepton colliders. The SDHCAL is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-22 I. Laktineh , B. Liu , D. Boumediene , Y. W. Baek , D-W. Kim , S. C. Lee , B. G. Min , S. W. Park , Y. Deguchi , K. Kawagoe , Y. Miura , R. Mori , I. Sekiya , T. Suehara , T. Yoshioka , L. Caponetto , C. Combaret , G. Garillot , G. Grenier , J-C. Ianigro , T. Kurca , I. Laktineh , B. Liu , B. Li , N. Lumb , H. Mathez , L. Mirabito , A. Steen , E. Calvo Alamillo , C. Carrillo , M. C. Fouz , H. Garcia Cabrera , J. Marin , J. Navarrete , J. Puerta Pelayo , A. Verdugo , F. Corriveau , L. Emberger , C. Graf , L. M. S de Silva , F. Simon , C. Winter , J. Bonis , D. Breton , P. Cornebise , A. Gallas , J. Jeglot , A. Irles , J. Maalmi , R. P schl , A. Thiebault , F. Richard , D. Zerwas , J. Cvach , M. Janata , M. Kovalcuk , J. Kvasnicka , I. Polak , J. Smolik , V. Vrba , J. Zalesak , J. Zuklin , Y. Y. Duan , S. Li , J. Guo , J. F. Hu , F. Lagarde , B. Liu , Q. P. Shen , X. Wang , W. H. Wu , H. J. Yang , Y. F. Zhu , L. Emberger , C. Graf , L. M. S de Silva , F. Simon , C. Winter

Fiber R and D for the CMS HCAL

This paper documents the fiber R and D for the CMS hadron barrel calorimeter (HCAL). The R and D includes measurements of fiber flexibility, splicing, mirror reflectivity, relative light yield, attenuation length, radiation effects,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 H. S. Budd , A. Bodek , P. de Barbaro , D. Ruggiero , E. Skup

Prototype tests for a highly granular scintillator-based hadronic calorimeter

Within the CALICE collaboration, several concepts for the hadronic calorimeter of a future lepton collider detector are studied. After having demonstrated the capabilities of the measurement methods in "physics prototypes", the focus now…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Yong Liu

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

DHCAL with Minimal Absorber: Measurements with Positrons

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-22 The CALICE Collaboration , B. Freund , C. Neubüser , J. Repond , J. Schlereth , L. Xia , A. Dotti , C. Grefe , V. Ivantchenko , J. Berenguer Antequera , E. Calvo Alamillo , M. -C. Fouz , J. Marin , J. Puerta-Pelayo , A. Verdugo , E. Brianne , A. Ebrahimi , K. Gadow , P. Göttlicher , C. Günter , O. Hartbrich , B. Hermberg , A. Irles , F. Krivan , K. Krüger , J. Kvasnicka , S. Lu , B. Lutz , V. Morgunov , A. Provenza , M. Reinecke , F. Sefkow , S. Schuwalow , H. L. Tran , E. Garutti , S. Laurien , M. Matysek , M. Ramilli , S. Schroeder , B. Bilki , E. Norbeck , D. Northacker , Y. Onel , J. Cvach , P. Gallus , M. Havranek , M. Janata , M. Kovalcuk , J. Kvasnicka , D. Lednicky , M. Marcisovsky , I. Polak , J. Popule , L. Tomasek , M. Tomasek , P. Sicho , J. Smolik , V. Vrba , J. Zalesak , B. van Doren , G. W. Wilson , K. Kawagoe , Y. Miyazaki , Y. Sudo , T. Suehara , T. Tomita , H. Ueno , T. Yoshioka , S. Bilokin , J. Bonis , P. Cornebise , R. Pöschl , F. Richard , A. Thiebault , D. Zerwas , J. -Y. Hostachy , L. Morin , D. Besson , M. Chadeeva , M. Danilov , O. Markin , E. Popova , M. Gabriel , P. Goecke , C. Kiesling , N. van der Kolk , F. Simon , M. Szalay , F. Corriveau , G. C. Blazey , A. Dyshkant , K. Francis , V. Zutshi , K. Kotera , H. Ono , T. Takeshita , S. Ieki , Y. Kamiya , W. Ootani , N. Shibata , D. Jeans , S. Komamiya , H. Nakanishi

Beam Test Results with Highly Granular Hadron Calorimeters for the ILC

To evaluate different technologies for calorimetry at the International Linear Collider, the CALICE collaboration has constructed a highly granular analog hadron calorimeter with small scintillator cells, individually read out by silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Frank Simon

Analysis of Testbeam Data of the Highly Granular RPC-Steel CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter and Validation of Geant4 Monte Carlo Models

We present a study of the response of the highly granular Digital Hadronic Calorimeter with steel absorbers, the Fe-DHCAL, to positrons, muons, and pions with momenta ranging from 2 to 60 GeV/c. Developed in the context of the CALICE…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-08 CALICE Collaboration , M. Chefdeville , J. Repond , J. Schlereth , J. R. Smith , D. Trojand , L. Xia , Q. Zhang , J. Apostolakis , C. Grefe , V. Ivantchenko , G. Folger , A. Ribon , V. Uzhinskiy , G. C. Blazey , A. Dyshkant , K. Francis , V. Zutshi , O. Bach , V. Bocharnikov , E. Brianne , K. Gadow , P. Göttlicher , O. Hartbrich , D. Heuchel , F. Krivan , K. Krüger , J. Kvasnicka , S. Lu , C. Neubüser , O. Pinto , A. Provenza , M. Reinecke , F. Sefkow , S. Schuwalow , Y. Sudo , H. L. Tran , P. Buhmann , E. Garutti , D. Lomidze , S. Martens , M. Matysek , B. Bilki , D. Northacker , Y. Onel , B. van Doren , G. W. Wilson , K. Kawagoe , Y. Miura , R. Mori , I. Sekiya , T. Suehara , T. Yoshioka , D. Belver , E. Calvo Alamillo , M. C. Fouz , H. García Cabrera , J. Marín , J. Navarrete , J. Puerta Pelayo , A. Verdugo , F. Corriveau , B. Freund , M. Chadeeva , M. Danilov , M. Gabriel , L. Emberger , C. Graf , Y. Israeli , F. Simon , M. Szalay , H. Windel , S. Bilokin , J. Bonis , A. Irles , R. Pöschl , A. Thiebault , F. Richard , D. Zerwas , J. Cvach , M. Janata , M. Kovalcuk , I. Polak , J. Smolik , V. Vrba , J. Zalesak , J. Zuklin , T. Takeshita , A. Elkhalii , M. Götze , C. Zeitnitz , S. Chang , A. Khan , D. H. Kim , D. J. Kong , Y. D. Oh

Construction and Commissioning of the CALICE Analog Hadron Calorimeter Prototype

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-13 C. Adloff , Y. Karyotakis , J. Repond , A. Brandt , H. Brown , K. De , C. Medina , J. Smith , J. Li , M. Sosebee , A. White , J. Yu , T. Buanes , G. Eigen , Y. Mikami , O. Miller , N. K. Watson , J. A. Wilson , T. Goto , G. Mavromanolakis , M. A. Thomson , D. R. Ward , W. Yan , D. Benchekroun , A. Hoummada , Y. Khoulaki , M. Oreglia , M. Benyamna , C. Cârloganu , P. Gay , J. Ha , G. C. Blazey , D. Chakraborty , A. Dyshkant , K. Francis , D. Hedin , G. Lima , V. Zutshi , V. A. Babkin , S. N. Bazylev , Yu. I. Fedotov , V. M. Slepnev , I. A. Tiapkin , S. V. Volgin , J. -Y. Hostachy , L. Morin , N. D?Ascenzo , U. Cornett , D. David , R. Fabbri , G. Falley , N. Feege , K. Gadow , E. Garutti , P. Göttlicher , T. Jung , S. Karstensen , V. Korbel , A. -I. Lucaci-Timoce , B. Lutz , N. Meyer , V. Morgunov , M. Reinecke , S. Schätzel , S. Schmidt , F. Sefkow , P. Smirnov , A. Vargas-Trevino , N. Wattimena , O. Wendt , M. Groll , R. -D. Heuer , S. Richter , J. Samson , A. Kaplan , H. -Ch. Schultz-Coulon , W. Shen , A. Tadday , B. Bilki , E. Norbeck , Y. Onel , E. J. Kim , G. Kim , D-W. Kim , K. Lee , S. C. Lee , K. Kawagoe , Y. Tamura , J. A. Ballin , P. D. Dauncey , A. -M. Magnan , H. Yilmaz , O. Zorba , V. Bartsch , M. Postranecky , M. Warren , M. Wing , M. Faucci Giannelli , M. G. Green , F. Salvatore , R. Kieffer , I. Laktineh , M. C Fouz , D. S. Bailey , R. J. Barlow , R. J. Thompson , M. Batouritski , O. Dvornikov , Yu. Shulhevich , N. Shumeiko , A. Solin , P. Starovoitov , V. Tchekhovski , A. Terletski , B. Bobchenko , M. Chadeeva , M. Danilov , O. Markin , R. Mizuk , V. Morgunov , E. Novikov , V. Rusinov , E. Tarkovsky , V. Andreev , N. Kirikova , A. Komar , V. Kozlov , P. Smirnov , Y. Soloviev , A. Terkulov , P. Buzhan , B. Dolgoshein , A. Ilyin , V. Kantserov , V. Kaplin , A. Karakash , E. Popova , S. Smirnov , N. Baranova , E. Boos , L. Gladilin , D. Karmanov , M. Korolev , M. Merkin , A. Savin , A. Voronin , A. Topkar , A. Freyk , C. Kiesling , S. Lu , K. Prothmann , K. Seidel , F. Simon , C. Soldner , L. Weuste , B. Bouquet , S. Callier , P. Cornebise , F. Dulucq , J. Fleury , H. Li , G. Martin-Chassard , F. Richard , Ch. de la Taille , R. Poeschl , L. Raux , M. Ruan , N. Seguin-Moreau , F. Wicek , M. Anduze , V. Boudry , J-C. Brient , G. Gaycken , R. Cornat , D. Jeans , P. Mora de Freitas , G. Musat , M. Reinhard , A. Rougé , J-Ch. Vanel , H. Videau , K-H. Park , J. Zacek , J. Cvach , P. Gallus , M. Havranek , M. Janata , J. Kvasnicka , M. Marcisovsky , I. Polak , J. Popule , L. Tomasek , M. Tomasek , P. Ruzicka , P. Sicho , J. Smolik , V. Vrba , J. Zalesak , Yu. Arestov , V. Ammosov , B. Chuiko , V. Gapienko , Y. Gilitski , V. Koreshev , A. Semak , Yu. Sviridov , V. Zaets , B. Belhorma , M. Belmir , A. Baird , R. N. Halsall , S. W. Nam , I. H. Park , J. Yang , Jong-Seo Chai , Jong-Tae Kim , Geun-Bum Kim , Y. Kim , J. Kang , Y. -J. Kwon , Ilgoo Kim , Taeyun Lee , Jaehong Park , Jinho Sung , S. Itoh , K. Kotera , M. Nishiyama , T. Takeshita , S. Weber , C. Zeitnitz

Construction and beam-tests of silicon-tungsten prototype modules for the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter for HL-LHC

As part of its HL-LHC upgrade program, CMS is developing a High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) to replace the existing endcap calorimeters. The HGCAL will be realised as a sampling calorimeter, including an electromagnetic compartment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Thorben Quast