First results of the CALICE SDHCAL technological prototype
Abstract
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 layers, made of Glass Resistive Plate Chambers and their embedded readout electronics, was run in triggerless and power-pulsing mode. The performance of the SDHCAL during the test beam was found to be very satisfactory with an efficiency exceeding 90% for almost all of the 48 active layers. A linear response (within 5%) and a good energy resolution are obtained for a large range of hadronic energies (5-80GeV) by applying appropriate calibration coefficients to the collected data for both the Digital (Binary) and the Semi-Digital (Multi-threshold) modes of the SDHCAL prototype. The Semi-Digital mode shows better performance at energies exceeding 30GeV
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@article{arxiv.1602.02276,
title = {First results of the CALICE SDHCAL technological prototype},
author = {V. Buridon and C. Combaret and L. Caponetto and R. Eté and G. Garillot and G. Grenier and R. Han and J. C. Ianigro and R. Kieffer and I. Laktineh and N. Lumb and H. Mathez and L. Mirabito and A. Petrukhin and A. Steen and J. Berenguer Antequera and E. Calvo Alamillo and M. -C. Fouz and J. Marin and J. Puerta-Pelayo and A. Verdugo and E. Cortina Gil and S. Mannai and S. Cauwenbergh and M. Tytgat and A. Pingault and N. Zaganidis and M. Anduze and V. Balagura and K. Belkadhi and V. Boudry and J-C. Brient and R. Cornat and M. Frotin and F. Gastaldi and Y. Haddad and M. Ruan and K. Shpak and H. Videau and D. Yu and S. Callier and S. Conforti di Lorenzo and F. Dulucq and G. Martin-Chassard and Ch. de la Taille and L. Raux and N. Seguin-Moreau and D. Boumediene and C. Carloganu and V. Français and J. Bonis and B. Bouquet and P. Cornebise and Ph. Doublet and M. Faucci-Giannelli and T. Frisson and G. Guilhem and H. Li and F. Richard and R. Pöschl and J. Rouëné and F. Wicek and Z. Zhang and Z. Deng and Y. Li and Y. Wang and Q. Yue and Z. Yang and G. Cho and D-W. Kim and S. C. Lee and W. Park and S. Vallecorsa and E. Brianne and A. Ebrahimi and K. Gadow and P. Göttlicher and C. Günter and O. Hartbrich and B. Hermberg and A. Irles and F. Krivan and K. Krüger and J. Kvasnicka and S. Lu and B. Lutz and V. Morgunov and C. Neubüser A. Provenza and M. Reinecke and F. Sefkow and S. Schuwalow and H. L. Tran and E. Garutti and S. Laurien and M. Matysek and M. Ramilli and S. Schroeder and B. Bilki and E. Norbeck and D. Northacker and Y. Onel and N. Kirikova and V. Kozlov and P. Smirnov and Y. Soloviev and M. Chadeeva and M. Danilov and M. Gabriel and P. Goecke and C. Kiesling and N. van der Kolk and F. Simon and C. Soldner and M. Szalay and L. Weuste and D. Jeans and S. Komamiya and H. Nakanishi and D. Benchekroun and A. Hoummada and Y. Khoulaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02276},
year = {2016}
}