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CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter: Calibration and Response to Hadrons

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

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

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

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

Design, Construction and Commissioning of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter - DHCAL

A novel hadron calorimeter is being developed for future lepton colliding beam detectors. The calorimeter is optimized for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) to the measurement of hadronic jets and features a very finely…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 C. Adams , A. Bambaugh , B. Bilki , J. Butler , F. Corriveau , T. Cundiff , G. Drake , K. Francis , B. Furst , V. Guarino , B. Haberichter , E. Hazen , J. Hoff , S. Holm , A. Kreps , P. DeLurgio , Z. Matijas , L. Dal Monte , N. Mucia , E. Norbeck , D. Northacker , Y. Onel , B. Pollack , J. Repond , J. Schlereth , F. Skrzecz , J. R. Smith , D. Trojand , D. Underwood , M. Velasco , J. Walendziak , K. Wood , S. Wu , L. Xia , Q. Zhang , A. Zhao

Design, Construction and Testing of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter (DHCAL) Electronics

A novel hadron calorimeter is being developed for future lepton colliding beam detectors. The calorimeter is optimized for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) to the measurement of hadronic jets and features a very finely…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-08 C. Adams , A. Bambaugh , B. Bilki , J. Butler , F. Corriveau , T. Cundiff , G. Drake , K. Francis , V. Guarino , B. Haberichter , E. Hazen , J. Hoff , S. Holm , A. Kreps , P. DeLurgio , L. Dal Monte , N. Mucia , E. Norbeck , D. Northacker , Y. Onel , B. Pollack , J. Repond , J. Schlereth , J. R. Smith , D. Trojand , D. Underwood , M. Velasco , J. Walendziak , K. Wood , S. Wu , L. Xia , Q. Zhang , A. Zhao

Construction of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter

Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) have been proposed as a method of improving the jet energy resolution of future colliding beam detectors. PFAs require calorimeters with high granularity to enable three-dimensional imaging of events. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Kurt Francis

Calibration Issues for the CALICE 1m3 AHCAL

The CALICE collaboration investigates diferent technology options for highly granular calorimeters for detectors at a future electron-positron collider. One of the devices constructed and tested by this collaboration is a 1m3 prototype of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-15 Jaroslav Zalesak

Analysis of Testbeam Data Recorded with the Large CALICE AHCAL Technological Prototype

The Analog Hadron Calorimeter (AHCAL) concept developed by the CALICE collaboration is a highly granular sampling calorimeter with \SI{3x3}{\square\centi\meter} plastic scintillator tiles individually read out by silicon photomultipliers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-19 Lorenz Emberger

Digital Hadron Calorimetry with Glass RPC Active Detectors

Glass RPC detectors are an attractive candidate for the active part of a highly granular digital hadron calorimeter (DHCAL) at the ILC. A numerical study, based on the GEANT3 simulation package, of the performance of such a calorimeter is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ghezzi , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , G. Tinti , M. Piccolo

Construction of a Digital Hadron Calorimeter

The DHCAL collaboration is assembling a large scale prototype Digital Hadron Calorimeter (DHCAL). The calorimeter utilizes Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as active medium and features of the order of 400,000 1 \times 1 cm2 pads with binary…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-05 Jose Repond

SDHCAL technological prototype test beam results

The Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (SDHCAL) is proposed to equip the future ILC detector. A technological prototype of the SDHCAL developed within the CALICE collaboration has been extensively tested in test beams. We review here the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-17 Héctor García Cabrera

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

Resistive Plate Chamber Digitization in a Hadronic Shower Environment

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadron Calorimeter (SDHCAL) technological prototype is a sampling calorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chamber detectors with a three-threshold readout as the active medium. This technology is one of the two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-07-13 Z. Deng , Y. Li , Y. Wang , Q. Yue , Z. Yang , J. Apostolakis , G. Folger , C. Grefe , V. Ivantchenko , A. Ribon , V. Uzhinskiy , D. Boumediene , C. Carloganu , V. Français , G. Cho , D-W. Kim , S. C. Lee , W. Park , S. Vallecorsa , S. Cauwenbergh , M. Tytgat , A. Pingault , N. Zaganidis , 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 , S. Chang , A. Khan , D. H. Kim , D. J. Kong , Y. D. Oh , K. Kawagoe , H. Hirai , Y. Sudo , T. Suehara , H. Sumida , T. Yoshioka , E. Cortina Gil , S. Mannai , 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 , M. Chadeeva , M. Danilov , M. Gabriel , P. Goecke , C. Kiesling , N. vanderKolk , F. Simon , M. Szalay , S. Bilokin , J. Bonis , P. Cornebise , F. Richard , R. Pöschl , J. Rouëné , A. Thiebault , D. Zerwas , M. Anduze , V. Balagura , K. Belkadhi , V. Boudry , J-C. Brient , R. Cornat , M. Frotin , F. Gastaldi , Y. Haddad , F. Magniette , M. Ruan , M. Rubio-Roy , 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 , K. Kotera , H. Ono , T. Takeshita , F. Corriveau

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

Resistive Plate Chambers for Imaging Calorimetry - the DHCAL

The DHCAL, the Digital Hadron Calorimeter, is a prototype calorimeter based on Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). The design emphasizes the imaging capabilities of the detector in an effort to optimize the calorimeter for the application of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Jose Repond

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

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

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

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