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Report number	arXiv:1603.01653 ; FERMILAB-PUB-16-696-PPD
Title	Design, Construction and Commissioning of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter - DHCAL
Author(s)	Adams, C. (Argonne (main)) ; Bambaugh, A. (Fermilab) ; Bilki, B. (Argonne (main) ; Iowa U.) ; Butler, J. (Boston U. (main)) ; Corriveau, F. (McGill U., Montreal (main)) ; Cundiff, T. (Argonne (main)) ; Drake, G. (Argonne (main)) ; Francis, K. (Argonne (main)) ; Furst, B. (Argonne (main)) ; Guarino, V. (Argonne (main)) ; Haberichter, B. (Argonne (main)) ; Hazen, E. (Boston U. (main)) ; Hoff, J. (Fermilab) ; Holm, S. (Fermilab) ; Kreps, A. (Argonne (main)) ; DeLurgio, P. (Argonne (main)) ; Matijas, Z. (Argonne (main)) ; Dal Monte, L. (Fermilab) ; Mucia, N. (Northwestern U. (main)) ; Norbeck, E. (Iowa U.) ; Northacker, D. (Iowa U.) ; Onel, Y. (Iowa U.) ; Pollack, B. (Northwestern U. (main)) ; Repond, J. (Argonne (main)) ; Schlereth, J. (Argonne (main)) ; Skrzecz, F. (Argonne (main)) ; Smith, J.R. (Argonne (main) ; Texas U., Arlington) ; Trojand, D. (McGill U., Montreal (main)) ; Underwood, D. (Argonne (main)) ; Velasco, M. (Northwestern U. (main)) ; Walendziak, J. (Argonne (main)) ; Wood, K. (Argonne (main)) ; Wu, S. (Boston U. (main)) ; Xia, L. (Argonne (main)) ; Zhang, Q. (Argonne (main) ; Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.) ; Zhao, A. (Argonne (main))
Publication	2016-07-12
Imprint	04 Mar 2016
Number of pages	22
In:	JINST 11 (2016) P07007
DOI	10.1088/1748-0221/11/07/P07007
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN SPS CERN PS CERN SPS
Test beam	H8
Abstract	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 measurement of hadronic jets and features a very finely segmented readout with 1 x 1 cm2 cells. The active media of the calorimeter are Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) with a digital, i.e. one-bit, readout. To first order the energy of incident particles in this calorimeter is reconstructed as being proportional to the number of pads with a signal over a given threshold. A large-scale prototype calorimeter with approximately 500,000 readout channels has been built and underwent extensive testing in the Fermilab and CERN test beams. This paper reports on the design, construction, and commissioning of this prototype calorimeter.
Copyright/License	arXiv nonexclusive-distrib. 1.0

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