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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Design and Electronics Commissioning of the Physics Prototype of a Si-W Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the International Linear Collider

The CALICE collaboration is studying the design of high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for future International Linear Collider detectors. For the electromagnetic calorimeter, the current baseline choice is a high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 CALICE Collaboration , J. Repond , J. Yu , C. M. Hawkes , Y. Mikami , O. Miller , N. K. Watson , J. A. Wilson , G. Mavromanolakis , M. A. Thomson , D. R. Ward , W. Yan , F. Badaud , D. Boumediene , C. Carloganu , R. Cornat , P. Gay , Ph. Gris , S. Manen , F. Morisseau , L. Royer , G. C. Blazey , D. Chakraborty , A. Dyshkant , K. Francis , D. Hedin , G. Lima , V. Zutshi , J. -Y. Hostachy , L. Morin , E. Garutti , V. Korbel , F. Sefkow , M. Groll , G. Kim , D-W. Kim , K. Lee , S. Lee , K. Kawagoe , Y. Tamura , D. A. Bowerman , P. D. Dauncey , A. -M. Magnan , C. Noronha , H. Yilmaz , O. Zorba , V. Bartsch , J. M. Butterworth , M. Postranecky , M. Warren , M. Wing , M. Faucci Giannelli , M. G. Green , F. Salvatore , T. Wu , D. Bailey , R. J. Barlow , M. Kelly , S. Snow , R. J. Thompson , M. Danilov , V. Kochetkov , N. Baranova , P. Ermolov , D. Karmanov , M. Korolev , M. Merkin , A. Voronin , B. Bouquet , S. Callier , 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 , Z. Zhang , M. Anduze , V. Boudry , J-C. Brient , C. Clerc , G. Gaycken , C. Jauffret , A. Karar , P. Mora de Freitas , G. Musat , M. Reinhard , A. Rouge , A. L. Sanchez , J-Ch. Vanel , H. Videau , J. Zacek , J. Cvach , P. Gallus , M. Havranek , M. Janata , M. Marcisovsky , I. Polak , J. Popule , L. Tomasek , M. Tomasek , P. Ruzicka , P. Sicho , J. Smolik , V. Vrba , J. Zalesak , Yu. Arestov , A. Baird , R. N. Halsall , S. W. Nam , I. H. Park , J. Yang