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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

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

A Large-Scale Pad-Sensor Based Prototype of the Silicon Tungsten Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the Forward Direction in ALICE at LHC

We constructed a large-scale electromagnetic calorimeter prototype as a part of the Forward Calorimeter upgrade project (FoCal) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The prototype, also known as ``Mini FoCal'',…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-19 R. G. E. Barthel , T. Chujo , T. Hachiya , M. Hatakeyama , Y. Hoshi , M. Inaba , Y. , Kawamura , D. Kawana , C. Loizides , Y. Miake , Y. Minato , K. Nakagawa , N. Novitzky , T. Peitzmann , M. Rossewij , M. Shimomura , T. Sugitate , T. Suzuki , K. Tadokoro , M. Takamura , S. Takasu , A. van den Brink , M. van Leeuwen

Study of detection efficiency distribution and areal homogeneity of SiPMs

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

Beam Test Results of the RADiCAL -- a Radiation Hard Innovative EM Calorimeter

High performance calorimetry conducted at future hadron colliders, such as the FCC-hh, poses a significant challenge for applying current detector technologies due to unprecedented beam luminosities and radiation fields. Solutions include…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-02 James Wetzel , Dylan Blend , Paul Debbins , Max Hermann , Ohannes Kamer Koseyan , Gurkan Kamaran , Yasar Onel , Thomas Anderson , Nehal Chigurupati , Brad Cox , Max Dubnowski , Alexander Ledovskoy , Carlos Perez-Lara , Thomas Barbera , Nilay Bostan , Kiva Ford , Colin Jessop , Randal Ruchti , Daniel Ruggiero , Daniel Smith , Mark Vigneault , Yuyi Wan , Mitchell Wayne , Chen Hu , Liyuan Zhang , Ren-Yuan Zhu

Upgrade of the ATLAS hadronic Tile calorimeter for the High luminosity LHC

The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is the hadronic calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS detector at the LHC. It is a sampling calorimeter consisting of alternating thin steel plates and scintillating tiles. Wavelength shifting…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-04 Michaela Mlynarikova

Status and Plans for the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Upgrade Project

The CMS Collaboration is preparing to build replacement endcap calorimeters for the HL-LHC era. The new high-granularity calorimeter (HGCAL) is, as the name implies, a highly-granular sampling calorimeter with approximately six million…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Thorben Quast

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

Prototype electronics for the silicon pad layers of the future Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) of the ALICE experiment at the LHC

A Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) has been proposed as part of the ALICE upgrades for data taking from 2029 onwards. The FoCal will feature a sampling electromagnetic calorimeter segmented into 110 towers supplemented by a hadron calorimeter.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-25 O. Bourrion , D. Tourres , R. Guernane , C. Arata , J. -L. Bouly , N. Ponchant

Performance of the ATLAS hadronic Tile calorimeter

The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is the central hadronic calorimeter designed for reconstruction of hadrons, jets, tau-particles and missing transverse energy. TileCal is a scintillator-steel sampling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-04 Michaela Mlynarikova

Design and Beam Test Results for the sPHENIX Electromagnetic and Hadronic Calorimeter Prototypes

The super Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment (sPHENIX) at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will perform high precision measurements of jets and heavy flavor observables for a wide selection of nuclear collision…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-18 C. A. Aidala , V. Bailey , S. Beckman , R. Belmont , C. Biggs , J. Blackburn , S. Boose , M. Chiu , M. Connors , E. Desmond , A. Franz , J. S. Haggerty , X. He , M. M. Higdon , J. Huang , K. Kauder , E. Kistenev , J. LaBounty , J. G. Lajoie , M. Lenz , W. Lenz , S. Li , V. R. Loggins , E. J. Mannel , T. Majoros , M. P. McCumber , J. L. Nagle , M. Phipps , C. Pinkenburg , S. Polizzo , C. Pontieri , M. L. Purschke , J. Putschke , M. Sarsour , T. Rinn , R. Ruggiero , A. Sen , A. M. Sickles , M. J. Skoby , J. Smiga , P. Sobel , P. Stankus , S. Stoll , A. Sukhanov , E. Thorsland , F. Toldo , R. S. Towell , B. Ujvari , S. Vazquez-Carson , C. L. Woody

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

Highly Granular Calorimeters: Technologies and Results

The CALICE collaboration is developing highly granular calorimeters for experiments at a future lepton collider primarily to establish technologies for particle flow event reconstruction. These technologies also find applications elsewhere,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Yong Liu

Performance of the SDHCAL technological prototype

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 2016-08-03 Gérald Grenier

Calibration Systems of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter

TileCal is the hadronic calorimeter covering the most central region of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. This sampling calorimeter uses iron plates as absorber and plastic scintillating tiles as the active material. A multi-faceted…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-12-18 Olof Lundberg

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. 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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

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

Particle Identification Using Boosted Decision Trees in the Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter Prototype

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype using Glass Resistive Plate Chambers as a sensitive medium is the first technological prototype of a family of high-granularity calorimeters developed by the CALICE…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 D. Boumediene , A. Pingault , M. Tytgat , B. Bilki , D. Northacker , Y. Onel , G. Cho , D-W. Kim , S. C. Lee , W. Park , S. Vallecorsa , Y. Deguchi , K. Kawagoe , Y. Miura , R. Mori , I. Sekiya , T. Suehara , T. Yoshioka , L. Caponetto , C. Combaret , R. Ete 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 , M. C. Fouz , J. Marin , J. Navarrete , J. Puerta Pelayo , A. Verdugo , F. Corriveau , B. Freund , M. Chadeeva , M. Danilov , L. Emberger , C. Graf , F. Simon , C. Winter , J. Bonis , D. Breton , P. Cornebise , A. Gallas , J. Jeglot , A. Irles , J. Maalmi , R. Pöschl , A. Thiebault , F. Richard , D. Zerwas , M. Anduze , V. Balagura , V. Boudry , J-C. Brient , E. Edy , F. Gastaldi , R. Guillaumat , F. Magniette , J. Nanni , H. Videau S. Callier , F. Dulucq , Ch. de la Taille , G. Martin-Chassard , L. Raux , N. Seguin-Moreau , 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 , Q. P. Shen , X. Wang , W. H. Wu , H. J. Yang , Y. F. Zhu

Energy Reconstruction of Hadrons in highly granular combined ECAL and HCAL systems

This paper discusses the hadronic energy reconstruction of two combined electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter systems using physics prototypes of the CALICE collaboration: the silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter (Si-W ECAL) and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-01 Yasmine Israeli

Beam test performance of a highly granular silicon tungsten calorimeter technical prototype for the ILD

A highly granular silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter (SiW-ECAL) is the reference design of the ECAL for International Large Detector concept, one of the two detector concepts for the future International Linear Collider.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-03 Fabricio Jimenez Morales