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Response of the CALICE DHCAL to Hadrons and Positrons

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

Design, Construction and Commissioning of a Technological Prototype of a Highly Granular SiPM-on-tile Scintillator-Steel Hadronic Calorimeter

The CALICE collaboration is developing highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for detectors at future energy frontier electron-positron colliders. After successful tests of a physics prototype, a technological prototype…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-03 CALICE Collaboration

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

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

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. 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Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang , X. Zhao

Electromagnetic response of a highly granular hadronic calorimeter

The CALICE collaboration is studying the design of high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for future International Linear Collider detectors. For the hadronic calorimeter, one option is a highly granular sampling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-08 C. Adloff , J. Blaha , J. -J. Blaising , C. Drancourt , A. Espargilière , R. Gaglione , N. Geffroy , Y. Karyotakis , J. Prast , G. Vouters , K. Francis , J. Repond , J. Smith , L. Xia , E. Baldolemar , J. Li , S. T. Park , M. Sosebee , A. P. White , J. Yu , Y. Mikami , N. K. Watson T. Goto , G. Mavromanolakis , M. A. Thomson , D. R. Ward W. Yan , M. Benyamna , C. Cârloganu , F. Fehr , P. Gay , S. Manen , L. Royer , G. C. Blazey , A. Dyshkant , J. G. R. Lima , V. Zutshi , J. -Y. Hostachy , L. Morin , U. Cornett , D. David , R. Fabbri , G. Falley , K. Gadow , E. Garutti , P. Göttlicher , C. Günter , S. Karstensen , F. Krivan , A. -I. Lucaci-Timoce , S. Lu , B. Lutz , I. Marchesini , N. Meyer , S. Morozov , V. Morgunov , M. Reinecke , F. Sefkow , P. Smirnov , M. Terwort , A. Vargas-Trevino , N. Wattimena , O. Wendt , N. Feege , J. Haller , S. Richter , J. Samson P. Eckert , A. Kaplan , H. -Ch. Schultz-Coulon , W. Shen , R. Stamen , A. Tadday , B. Bilki , E. Norbeck , Y. Onel , G. W. Wilson , K. Kawagoe , S. Uozumi , J. A. Ballin , P. D. Dauncey , A. -M. Magnan , H. S. Yilmaz , O. Zorba , V. Bartsch , M. Postranecky , M. Warren , M. Wing , F. Salvatore , E. Calvo Alamillo , M. -C. Fouz , J. Puerta-Pelayo , V. Balagura , B. Bobchenko , M. Chadeeva , M. Danilov , A. Epifantsev , O. Markin , R. Mizuk , E. Novikov , V. Rusinov , E. Tarkovsky , Y. Soloviev , V. Kozlov , P. Buzhan , B. Dolgoshein , A. Ilyin , V. Kantserov , V. Kaplin , A. Karakash , E. Popova , S. Smirnov , A. Frey , C. Kiesling , K. Seidel , F. Simon , C. Soldner , L. Weuste , J. Bonis , B. Bouquet , S. Callier , P. Cornebise , Ph. Doublet , F. Dulucq , M. Faucci Giannelli , J. Fleury , G. Guilhem , H. Li , G. Martin-Chassard , F. Richard , Ch. de la Taille , R. Pöschl , L. Raux , N. Seguin-Moreau , F. Wicek , M. Anduze , V. Boudry , J-C. Brient , D. Jeans , P. Mora de Freitas , G. Musat , M. Reinhard , M. Ruan , H. Videau , B. Bulanek , J. Zacek , J. Cvach , P. Gallus , M. Havranek , M. Janata , J. Kvasnicka , D. Lednicky , M. Marcisovsky , I. Polak , J. Popule , L. Tomasek , M. Tomasek , P. Ruzicka , P. Sicho , J. Smolik , V. Vrba , J. Zalesak , B. Belhorma , H. Ghazlane , K. Kotera , M. Nishiyama , T. Takeshita , S. Tozuka , T. Buanes , G. Eigen

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

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

Recent Advances of the Engineering Prototype of the CALICE Analog Hadron Calorimeter

The CALICE collaboration is developing an engineering prototype of an analog hadron calorimeter for a future linear collider detector. The prototype has to prove the feasibility of building a realistic detector with fully integrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Oskar Hartbrich , Mark Terwort

Tracking within Hadronic Showers in the CALICE SDHCAL prototype using a Hough Transform Technique

The high granularity of the CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) provides the capability to reveal the track segments present in hadronic showers. These segments are then used as a tool to probe the behaviour of the active…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-24 The CALICE Collaboration

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

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

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

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

Tile HCAL Test Beam Analysis: Positron and Hadron Studies

The CALICE collaboration has constructed a hadronic sandwich calorimeter prototype with 7608 scintillating plates, individually read out by multi-pixel silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). For the first time ever the read out is performed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-10 Riccardo Fabbri

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

AHCAL Energy Resolution

The CALICE collaboration has constructed highly granular hadronic and electromagnetic calorimeter prototypes to evaluate technologies for the use in detector systems at a future Linear Collider. The hadron calorimeter uses 7608 small…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-06-21 Katja Seidel

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

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

Hadronic showers in the CALICE calorimeter prototypes

The CALICE collaboration has constructed highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter prototypes to evaluate technologies for the use in detector systems at the future International Linear Collider. These calorimeters have been…

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