Publications (25)
Secondary Beam Monitors for the NuMI Facility at FNAL
S. Kopp, M. Bishai, M. Dierckxsens +20
The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility is a conventional neutrino beam which produces muon neutrinos by focusing a beam of mesons into a long evacuated decay volume. We…
Ion Chamber Arrays for the Numi Beam at Fermilab
D. Indurthy, Z. Pavlovic, R. Zwaska +16
The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline will deliver an intense muon neutrino beam by focusing a beam of mesons into a long evacuated decay volume. We have built 4 array…
First results of the CALICE SDHCAL technological prototype
V. Buridon, C. Combaret, L. Caponetto +118
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 b…
Beam tests of an integrated prototype of the ATLAS Forward Proton detector
J. Lange, L. Adamczyk, G. Avoni +24
The ATLAS Forward Proton (AFP) detector is intended to measure protons scattered at small angles from the ATLAS interaction point. To this end, a combination of 3D Silicon pixel tr…
Design, Construction and Testing of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter (DHCAL) Electronics
C. Adams, A. Bambaugh, B. Bilki +30
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…
Analysis of Testbeam Data of the Highly Granular RPC-Steel CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter and Validation of Geant4 Monte Carlo Models
CALICE Collaboration, M. Chefdeville, J. Repond +93
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…
Construction and Response of a Highly Granular Scintillator-based Electromagnetic Calorimeter
CALICE collaboration, J. Repond, L. Xia +78
A highly granular electromagnetic calorimeter with scintillator strip readout is being developed for future lepton collider experiments. A prototype of 21.5 depth and $180 \t…
Performance of the first prototype of the CALICE scintillator strip electromagnetic calorimeter
CALICE Collaboration, K. Francis, J. Repond +191
A first prototype of a scintillator strip-based electromagnetic calorimeter was built, consisting of 26 layers of tungsten absorber plates interleaved with planes of 45x10x3 mm3 pl…
Ion Chambers for Monitoring the NuMI Neutrino Beam at FNAL
D. Indurthy, R. Keisler, S. Kopp +15
The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline will deliver an intense muon neutrino beam by focusing a beam of mesons into a long evacuated decay volume. The beam must be stee…
Hadron shower decomposition in the highly granular CALICE analogue hadron calorimeter
The CALICE Collaboration, G. Eigen, T. Price +157
The spatial development of hadronic showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter is studied using test beam data collected at CERN and FNAL for single posit…
An Upgrade Proposal from the PHENIX Collaboration
A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +473
In this document the PHENIX collaboration proposes a major upgrade to the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. This upgrade, sPHENIX, enables an extremely rich j…
Design, Construction and Commissioning of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter - DHCAL
C. Adams, A. Bambaugh, B. Bilki +33
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…
The T2K Side Muon Range Detector
S. Aoki, G. Barr, M. Batkiewicz +64
The T2K experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment aiming to observe the appearance of ν e in a νμ beam. The νμ beam is produced at the Japan Proton Acceler…
Scintillator counters with WLS fiber/MPPC readout for the side muon range detector (SMRD)of the T2K experiment
A. Izmaylov, S. Aoki, J. Blocki +52
The T2K neutrino experiment at J-PARC uses a set of near detectors to measure the properties of an unoscillated neutrino beam and neutrino interaction cross-sections. One of the su…
Shower development of particles with momenta from 1 to 10 GeV in the CALICE Scintillator-Tungsten HCAL
C. Adloff, J. -J. Blaising, M. Chefdeville +215
Lepton colliders are considered as options to complement and to extend the physics programme at the Large Hadron Collider. The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is an collide…
Resistive Plate Chamber Digitization in a Hadronic Shower Environment
Z. Deng, Y. Li, Y. Wang +125
The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadron Calorimeter (SDHCAL) technological prototype is a sampling calorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chamber detectors with a three-threshold readout a…
sPHENIX: An Upgrade Concept from the PHENIX Collaboration
A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +423
The PHENIX collaboration presents a concept for a major upgrade to the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). This upgrade, referred to as sPHENIX, brings e…
The Time Structure of Hadronic Showers in highly granular Calorimeters with Tungsten and Steel Absorbers
C. Adloff, J. -J. Blaising, M. Chefdeville +210
The intrinsic time structure of hadronic showers influences the timing capability and the required integration time of hadronic calorimeters in particle physics experiments, and de…
DHCAL with Minimal Absorber: Measurements with Positrons
The CALICE Collaboration, B. Freund, C. Neubüser +99
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…
Particle Identification Using Boosted Decision Trees in the Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter Prototype
D. Boumediene, A. Pingault, M. Tytgat +87
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-…
Software Compensation for Highly Granular Calorimeters using Machine Learning
S. Lai, J. Utehs, A. Wilhahn +61
A neural network for software compensation was developed for the highly granular CALICE Analogue Hadronic Calorimeter (AHCAL). The neural network uses spatial and temporal event in…
Shower Separation in Five Dimensions for Highly Granular Calorimeters using Machine Learning
S. Lai, J. Utehs, A. Wilhahn +48
To achieve state-of-the-art jet energy resolution for Particle Flow, sophisticated energy clustering algorithms must be developed that can fully exploit available information to se…
Testing Hadronic Interaction Models using a Highly Granular Silicon-Tungsten Calorimeter
The CALICE Collaboration, B. Bilki, J. Repond +148
A detailed study of hadronic interactions is presented using data recorded with the highly granular CALICE silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter. Approximately 350,000 selec…
Calibration of a digital hadron calorimeter with muons
B. Bilki, J. Butler, T. Cundiff +15
The calibration procedure of a finely granulated digital hadron calorimeter with Resistive Plate Chambers as active elements is described. Results obtained with a stack of nine lay…
Pion and proton showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter
The CALICE Collaboration, B. Bilki, J. Repond +169
Showers produced by positive hadrons in the highly granular CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter were studied. The experimental data were collected at CERN and FNA…