Resistive Plate Chamber Digitization in a Hadronic Shower Environment
Abstract
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 options proposed for the hadron calorimeter of the International Large Detector for the International Linear Collider. The prototype was exposed to beams of muons, electrons and pions of different energies at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. To be able to study the performance of such a calorimeter in future experiments it is important to ensure reliable simulation of its response. In this paper we present our prototype simulation performed with GEANT4 and the digitization procedure achieved with an algorithm called SimDigital. A detailed description of this algorithm is given and the methods to determinate its parameters using muon tracks and electromagnetic showers are explained. The comparison with hadronic shower data shows a good agreement up to 50 GeV. Discrepancies are observed at higher energies. The reasons for these differences are investigated.
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@article{arxiv.1604.04550,
title = {Resistive Plate Chamber Digitization in a Hadronic Shower Environment},
author = {Z. Deng and Y. Li and Y. Wang and Q. Yue and Z. Yang and J. Apostolakis and G. Folger and C. Grefe and V. Ivantchenko and A. Ribon and V. Uzhinskiy and D. Boumediene and C. Carloganu and V. Français and G. Cho and D-W. Kim and S. C. Lee and W. Park and S. Vallecorsa and S. Cauwenbergh and M. Tytgat and A. Pingault and N. Zaganidis 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 and 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 S. Chang and A. Khan and D. H. Kim and D. J. Kong and Y. D. Oh and K. Kawagoe and H. Hirai and Y. Sudo and T. Suehara and H. Sumida and T. Yoshioka and E. Cortina Gil and S. Mannai and 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 M. Chadeeva and M. Danilov and M. Gabriel and P. Goecke and C. Kiesling and N. vanderKolk and F. Simon and M. Szalay and S. Bilokin and J. Bonis and P. Cornebise and F. Richard and R. Pöschl and J. Rouëné and A. Thiebault and D. Zerwas 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 F. Magniette and M. Ruan and M. Rubio-Roy 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 K. Kotera and H. Ono and T. Takeshita and F. Corriveau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04550},
year = {2016}
}