Publications (17)
Validation of GEANT4 Monte Carlo Models with a Highly Granular Scintillator-Steel Hadron Calorimeter
C. Adloff, J. Blaha, J. -J. Blaising +169
Calorimeters with a high granularity are a fundamental requirement of the Particle Flow paradigm. This paper focuses on the prototype of a hadron calorimeter with analog readout, c…
Electromagnetic response of a highly granular hadronic calorimeter
C. Adloff, J. Blaha, J. -J. Blaising +164
The CALICE collaboration is studying the design of high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for future International Linear Collider detectors. For the hadronic c…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Shower development of particles with momenta from 15 GeV to 150 GeV in the CALICE scintillator-tungsten hadronic calorimeter
The CALICE collaboration, M. Chefdeville, Y. Karyotakis +178
We present a study of showers initiated by electrons, pions, kaons, and protons with momenta from 15 GeV to 150 GeV in the highly granular CALICE scintillator-tungsten analogue had…
Characterisation of different stages of hadronic showers using the CALICE Si-W ECAL physics prototype
CALICE Collaboration, G. Eigen, T. Price +103
A detailed investigation of hadronic interactions is performed using -mesons with energies in the range 2--10 GeV incident on a high granularity silicon-tungsten electromagne…
Hadronic energy resolution of a highly granular scintillator-steel hadron calorimeter using software compensation techniques
CALICE Collaboration, C. Adloff, J. Blaha +163
The energy resolution of a highly granular 1 m3 analogue scintillator-steel hadronic calorimeter is studied using charged pions with energies from 10 GeV to 80 GeV at the CERN SPS.…
The VLQ Calorimeter of H1 at HERA: A Highly Compact Device for Measurements of Electrons and Photons under Very Small Scattering Angles
A. Stellberger, K. Meier, O. Niedermaier +7
In 1998, the detector H1 at HERA has been equipped with a small backward spectrometer, the Very Low Q^2 (VLQ) spectrometer comprising a silicon tracker, a tungsten - scintillator s…
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…
Track segments in hadronic showers in a highly granular scintillator-steel hadron calorimeter
CALICE Collaboration, C. Adloff, J. -J. Blaising +205
We investigate the three dimensional substructure of hadronic showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel hadronic calorimeter. The high granularity of the detector is used to find tr…