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A highly granular SiPM-on-tile calorimeter prototype

The Analogue Hadron Calorimeter (AHCAL) developed by the CALICE collaboration is a scalable engineering prototype for a Linear Collider detector. It is a sampling calorimeter of steel absorber plates and plastic scintillator tiles read out…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-22 Felix Sefkow , Frank Simon

Comparison of hadron shower data with simulations

An analog hadron calorimeter (AHCAL) prototype of 5.3 nuclear interaction lengths thickness has been designed and constructed by members of the CALICE Collaboration. The AHCAL prototype consists of a 38-layer sandwich structure of steel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-07-20 Shaojun Lu

Energy measurement with the SDHCAL prototype

The SDHCAL prototype that was completed in 2012 was exposed to beams of pions, electrons of different energies at the SPS of CERN for a total time period of 5 weeks. The data are being analyzed within the CALICE Collaboration. However…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-30 Alexey Petrukhin

The 1m3 Semidigital Hadronic Prototype

A high granularity hadronic 1 m3 calorimeter prototype with semi-digital readout has been designed and built. This calorimeter has been made using stainless steel as absorber and Glass Resistive Plates Chambers (GRPC) as active medium, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 M. C Fouz

Semi-DHCAL software developments: Digitization and Display

GRPC Semi-Digital HCAL is a solid option for the PFA oriented calorimetry of the International Linear Collider. Together with the hardware, the software developments is progressing steadily. The stauts and plans for the GRPC SDHCAL software…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-07-20 Manqi Ruan

Development of Hybrid Resistive Plate Chambers

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are essential active media of large-scale experiments as part of the muon systems and (semi-)digital hadron calorimeters. Among the several outstanding issues associated with the RPCs, the loss of efficiency…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 Mehmet Tosun , Burak Bilki , Kutlu Kagan Sahbaz

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. Cerci , S. Cerci , G. Cerminara , M. Chadeeva , N. Charitonidis , R. Chatterjee , J. A. Chen , Y. M. Chen , H. J. Cheng , K. Y. Cheng , H. Cheung , D. Chokheli , M. Cipriani , D. Čoko , F. Couderc , E. Cuba , M. Danilov , D. Dannheim , W. Daoud , I. Das , P. Dauncey , G. Davies , O. Davignon , E. Day , P. Debbins , M. M. Defranchis , E. Delagnes , Z. Demiragli , U. Demirbas , G. Derylo , D. Diaz , L. Diehl , P. Dinaucourt , G. G. Dincer , J. Dittmann , M. Dragicevic , S. Dugad , F. Dulucq , I. Dumanoglu , M. Dünser , S. Dutta , V. Dutta , T. K. Edberg , F. Elias , L. Emberger , S. C. Eno , Yu. Ershov , S. Extier , F. Fahim , C. Fallon , K. Sarbandi Fard , G. Fedi , L. Ferragina , L. Forthomme , E. Frahm , G. Franzoni , J. Freeman , T. French , K. Gadow , P. Gandhi , S. Ganjour , X. Gao , M. T. Ramos Garcia , A. Garcia-Bellido , E. Garutti , F. Gastaldi , D. Gastler , Z. Gecse , A. Germer , H. Gerwig , O. Gevin , S. Ghosh , A. Gilbert , W. Gilbert , K. Gill , C. Gingu , S. Gninenko , A. Golunov , I. Golutvin , B. Gonultas , N. Gorbounov , P. Göttlicher , L. Gouskos , C. Graf , A. B. Gray , C. Grieco , S. Gr\"önroos , Y. Gu , F. Guilloux , E. Gurpinar Guler , Y. Guler , E. Gülmez , J. Guo , H. Gutti , A. Hakimi , M. Hammer , O. Hartbrich , H. M. Hassanshahi , K. Hatakeyama , E. Hazen , A. Heering , V. Hegde , U. Heintz , D. Heuchel , N. Hinton , J. Hirschauer , J. Hoff , W. S. Hou , X. Hou , H. Hua , S. Huck , A. Hussain , J. Incandela , A. Irles , A. Irshad , C. Isik , S. Jain , J. Jaroslavceva , H. R. Jheng , U. Joshi , K. Kaadze , V. Kachanov , L. Kalipoliti , A. Kaminskiy , A. R. Kanuganti , Y. W. Kao , A. Kapoor , O. Kara , A. Karneyeu , O. Kałuzińska , M. Kaya , O. Kaya , Y. Kazhykharim , F. A. Khan , A. Khukhunaishvili , J. Kieseler , M. Kilpatrick , S. Kim , K. Koetz , T. Kolberg , M. Komm , O. K. Köseyan , V. Kraus , M. Krawczyk , K. Kristiansen , A. Kristić , M. Krohn , B. Kronheim , K. Krüger , S. Kulis , M. Kumar , S. Kunori , C. M. Kuo , V. 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. Ozkorucuklu , E. Paganis , C. A. Palmer , S. Pandey , F. Pantaleo , C. Papageorgakis , I. Papakrivopoulos , M. Paranjpe , J. Parshook , N. Pastika , M. Paulini , T. Peitzmann , T. Peltola , N. Peng , A. Buchot Perraguin , P. Petiot , T. Pierre-Emile , M. Vicente Barreto Pinto , E. Popova , R. Pöschl , H. Prosper , M. Prvan , I. Puljak , S. R. Qasim , H. Qu , T. Quast , R. Quinn , M. Quinnan , A. Rane , K. K. Rao , K. Rapacz , L. Raux , W. Redjeb , M. Reinecke , M. Revering , F. Richard , A. Roberts , A. M. Sanchez , J. Rohlf , J. Rolph , T. Romanteau , M. Rosado , A. Rose , M. Rovere , A. Roy , P. Rubinov , R. Rusack , V. Rusinov , V. Ryjov , O. M. Sahin , R. Salerno , R. Saradhy , T. Sarkar , M. A. Sarkisla , J. B. Sauvan , I. Schmidt , M. Schmitt , S. Schuwalow , E. Scott , C. Seez , F. Sefkow , D. Selivanova , S. Sharma , M. Shelake , A. Shenai , R. Shukla , E. Sicking , M. De , P. Silva , P. Simkina , F. Simon , A. E. Simsek , Y. Sirois , V. Smirnov , T. J. Sobering , E. Spencer , N. Srimanobhas , A. Steen , J. Strait , N. Strobbe , X. F. Su , Y. Sudo , C. Mantilla Suarez , E. Sukhov , L. Sulak , L. Sun , P. Suryadevara , C. Syal , C. de La Taille , B. Tali , C. L. Tan , J. Tao , A. Tarabini , T. Tatli , R. Thaus , R. D. Taylor , S. Tekten , A. Thiebault , D. Thienpont , C. Tiley , E. Tiras , M. Titov , D. Tlisov , U. G. Tok , A. Kayis , J. Troska , L. S. Tsai , Z. Tsamalaidze , G. Tsipolitis , A. Tsirou , S. Undleeb , D. Urbanski , E. Uslan , V. Ustinov , A. Uzunian , J. Varela , M. Velasco , E. Vernazza , O. Viazlo , P. Vichoudis , T. Virdee , E. Voirin , M. Vojinovi\c , M. Vojinovic , A. Wade , C. Wang , C. C. Wang , D. Wang , F. Wang , X. Wang , X. Wang , Z. Wang , M. Wayne , S. N. Webb , A. Whitbeck , R. Wickwire , J. S. Wilson , H. Y. Wu , L. Wu , M. Xiao , J. Yang , C. H Yeh , R. Yohay , D. Yu , S. S. Yu , C. Yuan , Y. Miao , F. Yumiceva , I. Yusuff , A. Zabi , A. Zacharopoulou , N. Zamiatin , A. Zarubin , P. Zehetner , D. Zerwas , H. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang , X. Zhao

Point Cloud Deep Learning Methods for Particle Shower Reconstruction in the DHCAL

Precision measurement of hadronic final states presents complex experimental challenges. The study explores the concept of a gaseous Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (DHCAL) and discusses the potential benefits of employing Graph Neural Network…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-10 Maryna Borysova , Shikma Bressler , Eilam Gross , Nilotpal Kakati , Darina Zavazieva

Calibration of a digital hadron calorimeter with muons

The calibration procedure of a finely granulated digital hadron calorimeter with Resistive Plate Chambers as active elements is described. Results obtained with a stack of nine layers exposed to muons from the Fermilab test beam are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-06-25 B. Bilki , J. Butler , T. Cundiff , G. Drake , W. Haberichter , E. Hazen , J. Hoff , S. Holm , A. Kreps , E. May , G. Mavromanolakis , E. Norbeck , D. Northacker , Y. Onel , J. Repond , D. Underwood , S. Wu , L. Xia

Measurement of Positron Showers with a Digital Hadron Calorimeter

A small prototype of a finely granulated digital hadron calorimeter with Resistive Plate Chambers as active elements was exposed to positrons of 1 . 16 GeV energy from the Fermilab test beam. The response function, energy resolution, as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-06-29 Burak Bilki , John Butler , Ed May , Georgios Mavromanolakis , Edwin Norbeck , Jose Repond , David Underwood , Lei Xia , Qingmin Zhang

Status of the CALICE analog calorimeter technological prototypes

The CALICE collaboration is currently developing engineering prototypes of electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for a future linear collider detector. This detector is designed to be used in particle-flow based event reconstruction. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Mark Terwort

First Years of Running for the LHCb Calorimeter System

The calorimeter system of LHCb is subdivided into four sub-detectors which ensure its longitudinal segmentation: a Scintillator Pad Detector (SPD) followed by a Preshower (PS) and then an electromagnetic (ECAL) an hadronic (HCAL)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Pascal Perret

Response of a CMS HGCAL silicon-pad electromagnetic calorimeter prototype to 20-300 GeV positrons

The Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration is designing a new high-granularity endcap calorimeter, HGCAL, to be installed later this decade. As part of this development work, a prototype system was built, with an electromagnetic section…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-25 B. Acar , G. Adamov , C. Adloff , S. Afanasiev , N. Akchurin , B. Akgün , F. Alam Khan , M. Alhusseini , J. Alison , A. Alpana , G. Altopp , M. Alyari , S. An , S. Anagul , I. Andreev , P. Aspell , I. O. Atakisi , O. Bach , A. Baden , G. Bakas , A. Bakshi , S. Bannerjee , P. Bargassa , D. Barney , F. Beaudette , F. Beaujean , E. Becheva , A. Becker , P. Behera , A. Belloni , T. Bergauer , M. Besancon , S. Bhattacharya , D. Bhowmik , B. Bilki , P. Bloch , A. Bodek , M. Bonanomi , A. Bonnemaison , S. Bonomally , J. Borg , F. Bouyjou , N. Bower , D. Braga , J. Brashear , E. Brondolin , P. Bryant , A. Buchot Perraguin , J. Bueghly , B. Burkle , A. Butler-Nalin , O. Bychkova , S. Callier , D. Calvet , X. Cao , A. Cappati , B. Caraway , S. Caregari , A. Cauchois , L. Ceard , Y. C. Cekmecelioglu , S. Cerci , G. Cerminara , M. Chadeeva , N. Charitonidis , R. Chatterjee , Y. M. Chen , Z. Chen , H. J. Cheng , K. y. Cheng , S. Chernichenko , H. Cheung , C. H. Chien , S. Choudhury , D. Čoko , G. Collura , F. Couderc , M. Danilov , D. Dannheim , W. Daoud , P. Dauncey , A. David , G. Davies , O. Davignon , E. Day , P. DeBarbaro , F. De Guio , C. de La Taille , M. De Silva , P. Debbins , M. M. Defranchis , E. Delagnes , J. M. Deltoro Berrio , G. Derylo , P. G. Dias de Almeida , D. Diaz , P. Dinaucourt , J. Dittmann , M. Dragicevic , S. Dugad , F. Dulucq , I. Dumanoglu , V. Dutta , S. Dutta , M. Dünser , J. Eckdahl , T. K. Edberg , M. El Berni , F. Elias , S. C. Eno , Yu. Ershov , P. Everaerts , S. Extier , F. Fahim , C. Fallon , G. Fedi , B. A. Fontana Santos Alves , E. Frahm , G. Franzoni , J. Freeman , T. French , P. Gandhi , S. Ganjour , X. Gao , A. Garcia-Bellido , F. Gastaldi , Z. Gecse , Y. Geerebaert , H. Gerwig , O. Gevin , S. Ghosh , A. Gilbert , W. Gilbert , K. Gill , C. Gingu , S. Gninenko , A. Golunov , I. Golutvin , T. Gonzalez , N. Gorbounov , L. Gouskos , A. B. Gray , Y. Gu , F. Guilloux , Y. Guler , E. Gülmez , J. Guo , E. Gurpinar Guler , M. Hammer , H. M. Hassanshahi , K. Hatakeyama , A. Heering , V. Hegde , U. Heintz , N. Hinton , J. Hirschauer , J. Hoff , W. -S. Hou , X. Hou , H. Hua , J. Incandela , A. Irshad , C. Isik , S. Jain , H. R. Jheng , U. Joshi , V. Kachanov , A. Kalinin , L. Kalipoliti , A. Kaminskiy , A. Kapoor , O. Kara , A. Karneyeu , M. Kaya , O. Kaya , A. Kayis Topaksu , A. Khukhunaishvili , J. Kiesler , M. Kilpatrick , S. Kim , K. Koetz , T. Kolberg , O. K. Köseyan , A. Kristić , M. Krohn , K. Krüger , N. Kulagin , S. Kulis , S. Kunori , C. M. Kuo , V. Kuryatkov , S. Kyre , Y. Lai , K. Lamichhane , G. Landsberg , C. Lange , J. Langford , M. Y. Lee , A. Levin , A. Li , B. Li , J. H. Li , Y. y. Li , H. Liao , D. Lincoln , L. Linssen , R. Lipton , Y. Liu , A. Lobanov , R. -S. Lu , M. Lupi , I. Lysova , A. -M. Magnan , F. Magniette , A. Mahjoub , A. A. Maier , A. Malakhov , S. Mallios , I. Mandjavize , M. Mannelli , J. Mans , A. Marchioro , A. Martelli , G. Martinez , P. Masterson , B. Meng , T. Mengke , A. Mestvirishvili , I. Mirza , S. Moccia , G. B. Mohanty , F. Monti , I. Morrissey , S. Murthy , J. Musić , Y. Musienko , S. Nabili , A. Nagar , M. Nguyen , A. Nikitenko , D. Noonan , M. Noy , K. Nurdan , C. Ochando , B. Odegard , N. Odell , H. Okawa , Y. Onel , W. Ortez , J. Ozegović , S. Ozkorucuklu , E. Paganis , D. Pagenkopf , V. Palladino , S. Pandey , F. Pantaleo , C. Papageorgakis , I. Papakrivopoulos , J. Parshook , N. Pastika , M. Paulini , P. Paulitsch , T. Peltola , R. Pereira Gomes , H. Perkins , P. Petiot , T. Pierre-Emile , F. Pitters , E. Popova , H. Prosper , M. Prvan , I. Puljak , H. Qu , T. Quast , R. Quinn , M. Quinnan , M. T. Ramos Garcia , K. K. Rao , K. Rapacz , L. Raux , G. Reichenbach , M. Reinecke , M. Revering , A. Roberts , T. Romanteau , A. Rose , M. Rovere , A. Roy , P. Rubinov , R. Rusack , V. Rusinov , V. Ryjov , O. M. Sahin , R. Salerno , A. M. Sanchez Rodriguez , R. Saradhy , T. Sarkar , M. A. Sarkisla , J. B. Sauvan , I. Schmidt , M. Schmitt , E. Scott , C. Seez , F. Sefkow , S. Sharma , I. Shein , A. Shenai , R. Shukla , E. Sicking , P. Sieberer , P. Silva , A. E. Simsek , Y. Sirois , V. Smirnov , U. Sozbilir , E. Spencer , A. Steen , J. Strait , N. Strobbe , J. W. Su , E. Sukhov , L. Sun , D. Sunar Cerci , C. Syal , B. Tali , C. L. Tan , J. Tao , I. Tastan , T. Tatli , R. Thaus , S. Tekten , D. Thienpont , E. Tiras , M. Titov , D. Tlisov , U. G. Tok , J. Troska , L. -S. Tsai , Z. Tsamalaidze , G. Tsipolitis , A. Tsirou , N. Tyurin , S. Undleeb , D. Urbanski , V. Ustinov , A. Uzunian , M. Van de Klundert , J. Varela , M. Velasco , O. Viazlo , M. Vicente Barreto Pinto , P. Vichoudis T. Virdee , R. Vizinho de Oliveira , J. Voelker , E. Voirin , M. Vojinovic , A. Wade , C. Wang , F. Wang , X. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , M. Wayne , S. N. Webb , A. Whitbeck , D. White , R. Wickwire , J. S. Wilson , D. Winter , H. y. Wu , L. Wu , M. Wulansatiti Nursanto , C. H Yeh , R. Yohay , D. Yu , G. B. Yu , S. S. Yu , C. Yuan , F. Yumiceva , I. Yusuff , A. Zacharopoulou , N. Zamiatin , A. Zarubin , S. Zenz , A. Zghiche , H. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang

The CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter for Operation at the High-Luminosity LHC

The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will integrate 10 times more luminosity than the LHC, posing significant challenges for radiation tolerance and event pileup on detectors, especially for forward calorimetry, and hallmarks the issue for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-01 Florian Pitters

First results of the SDHCAL technological prototype

The CALICE Semi-digital hadronic calorimeter built in 2011, was installed and tested during two periods of two weeks each in 2012 at CERN SPS facilities. The detector has more than 450000 channels with a semi-digital readout distributed on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-16 Y. Haddad

Data Acquisition System for the CALICE AHCAL Calorimeter

The data acquisition system (DAQ) for a highly granular analogue hadron calorimeter (AHCAL) for the future International Linear Collider is presented. The developed DAQ chain has several stages of aggregation and scales up to 8 million…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Jiri Kvasnicka

Realization and Test of the Engineering Prototype of the CALICE Tile Hadron Calorimeter

The CALICE collaboration is currently developing an engineering prototype of an analog hadron calorimeter for a future linear collider detector. It is based on scintillating tiles that are individually read out by silicon photomultipliers.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Mark Terwort

Novel 3D Clustering Algorithm and Two Particle Separation with Tile HCAL

Based on a novel shower reconstruction algorithm, the study of two particle separation with tile hadron calorimeter (HCAL) is performed. The separability of two close-by particles is found to be strongly dependent on transverse and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Morgunov , A. Raspereza

The CMS HGCAL detector for HL-LHC upgrade

The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will integrate 10 times more luminosity than the LHC, posing significant challenges for radiation tolerance and event pileup on detectors, especially for forward calorimetry, and hallmarks the issue for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-18 Arabella Martelli

Upgraded Electronics of the ATLAS Hadronic Tile Calorimeter for the High Luminosity LHC

The ATLAS hadronic Tile Calorimeter will undergo major upgrades to the on- and off-detector electronics in preparation for the High Luminosity program of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) in 2026, so that the system can cope with the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Jalal Abdallah