Publications (20)
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…
Construction and Commissioning of the CALICE Analog Hadron Calorimeter Prototype
C. Adloff, Y. Karyotakis, J. Repond +225
An analog hadron calorimeter (AHCAL) prototype of 5.3 nuclear interaction lengths thickness has been constructed by members of the CALICE Collaboration. The AHCAL prototype consist…
Beam Test Studies of 3D Pixel Sensors Irradiated Non-Uniformly for the ATLAS Forward Physics Detector
S. Grinstein, M. Baselga, M. Boscardin +19
Pixel detectors with cylindrical electrodes that penetrate the silicon substrate (so called 3D detectors) offer advantages over standard planar sensors in terms of radiation hardne…
Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics
The ATLAS Collaboration, G. Aad, E. Abat +2604
A detailed study is presented of the expected performance of the ATLAS detector. The reconstruction of tracks, leptons, photons, missing energy and jets is investigated, together w…
Study of the interactions of pions in the CALICE silicon-tungsten calorimeter prototype
C. Adloff, Y. Karyotakis, J. Repond +155
A prototype silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter for an ILC detector was tested in 2007 at the CERN SPS test beam. Data were collected with electron and hadron beams in the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Infrastructure for Detector Research and Development towards the International Linear Collider
J. Aguilar, P. Ambalathankandy, T. Fiutowski +274
The EUDET-project was launched to create an infrastructure for developing and testing new and advanced detector technologies to be used at a future linear collider. The aim was to…
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…
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.…
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…
Design and Electronics Commissioning of the Physics Prototype of a Si-W Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the International Linear Collider
CALICE Collaboration, J. Repond, J. Yu +114
The CALICE collaboration is studying the design of high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for future International Linear Collider detectors. For the electromag…