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The large CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter prototype (DHCAL) was built in 2009 - 2010. The DHCAL uses Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as active media and is read out with 1 x 1 cm2 pads and digital (1 - bit) resolution. With a world record…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Burak Bilki

A new electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) consisting of 1596 lead tungstate PbWO$_{\rm 4}$ scintillating crystals has been fabricated and installed in the experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab (JLab). The high-granularity, high-resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-07 Alexander Somov

The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is the hadronic calorimeter covering the most central region of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. It is a key detector for the measurement of hadrons, jets, tau leptons and missing transverse energy. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-05-03 Bernardo Sotto-Maior Peralva

In this article we describe the commissioning and a first analysis of the the beam test performance of a small prototype of a highly granular silicon tungsten calorimeter. The prototype features detector elements with a channel number…

The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will have a peak luminosity of $5\times10^{34} $cm$^{-2} $\,s$^{-1}$, five times higher than the design luminosity of the LHC. The hadronic ATLAS Tile Calorimeter TileCal) is a sampling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-29 Eduardo Valdes Santurio

The electromagnetic ealorimeter (ECAL) of the CMS detector has played an important role in the physics program of the experiment, delivering outstanding performance throughout data taking. The High-Luminosity LHC will pose new challenges.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-10 Stefano Argiro

The ALICE experiment at the LHC is equipped with an electromagnetic calorimeter (EMCal) designed to enhance its capabilities for jet measurement. In addition, the EMCal enables triggering on high energy jets. Based on the previous…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-17 O. Bourrion , R. Guernane , B. Boyer , J. L. Bouly , G. Marcotte

The status of the prototype readout boards for the CALICE electromagnetic calorimeter is presented. Results on linearity, noise, and minimum ionising signals, both from a radiactive source and cosmic rays, are shown.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Dauncey

Shashlyk electromagnetic calorimeter modules with an energy resolution of about 3%/sqrt{E (GeV)} for 50-1000 MeV photons has been developed, and a prototype tested. Details of these improved modules, including mechanical construction,…

We describe an algorithm which has been developed to extract fine granularity information from an electromagnetic calorimeter with strip-based readout. Such a calorimeter, based on scintillator strips, is being developed to apply particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-09 Katsushige Kotera , Daniel Jeans , Akiya Miyamoto , Tohru Takeshita

The Digital Hadron Calorimeter (DHCAL) 1m3 physics prototype was constructed and has been tested in particle beams. We report the preliminary results from the analysis of both positon and pion events of momenta between 2 and 60 GeV/c. These…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Lei Xia

The SDHCAL technological prototype is a $1 \times 1 \times 1.3$ m$^3$ high-granularity Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chambers as sensitive medium. It is one of the two HCAL options considered by the ILD…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Gérald Grenier

The electromagnetic barrel calorimeter is one of the main components of the planned GlueX experiment. It will consist of 48 modules made of consecutive layers of 4 m long lead sheet and fast green scintillator fibers for an overall number…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Barbi

The FCAL collaboration has performed a design study for luminometers at future electronpositron colliders. Compact sampling calorimeters with precisely positioned silicon sensors and a fast readout will reach the necessary performance even…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-29 Veta Ghenescu

The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) is a next-generation electron$-$positron collider proposed for the precise measurement of the properties of the Higgs boson. To emphasize boson separation and jet reconstruction, the baseline…

The Very Large Area Gamma-ray Space Telescope Pathfinder (VLAST-P), as the technology validation satellite for the VLAST mission, is designed to observe high-energy solar bursts on orbit. The CsI electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) is one of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-10 Jiaxuan Wang , Zhen Wang , Borong Peng , Renjun Wang , Yunlong Zhang , Zhongtao Shen , Yifeng Wei , Dengyi Chen , Xiang Li , Yiming Hu , Jianhua Guo

We recently proposed a high-granularity calorimeter insert for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) that uses plastic scintillator tiles read out by SiPMs. Among its innovative features are an ASIC-away-of-SiPM strategy for reducing cooling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-27 Miguel Arratia , Bruce Bagby , Peter Carney , Jiajun Huang , Ryan Milton , Sebouh J. Paul , Sean Preins , Miguel Rodriguez , Weibin Zhang

The analog hadron calorimeter for the International Linear Collider (ILC) of the CALICE collaboration utilized novel silicon detectors, the Sillicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs), for the detection of scintillation light coming from very small…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-28 Michal Tesař , Christian Jendrysik , Jelena Ninković , Frank Simon

The International Large Detector (ILD) is a proposed detector for the International Linear Collider (ILC). It has been designed to achieve an excellent jet energy resolution by using Particle Flow Algorithms (PFA), which rely on the ability…

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) detector yields a huge sample of data from different sub-detectors. On-line data processing is applied to select and reduce the volume of the stored data. ALICE applies a multi-level hardware…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Ronchetti , F. Blanco , M. Figueredo , A. G. Knospe , L. Xaplanteris