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Article
Report number	arXiv:1404.7046
Title	Resistive Plate Chambers for Imaging Calorimetry - the DHCAL
Author(s)	Repond, Jose (Argonne)
Publication	2014-09-30
Imprint	28 Apr 2014
Number of pages	10
In:	JINST 9 (2014) C09034
In:	12th workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors, Beijing, China, 23 - 28 Feb 2014, pp.C09034
DOI	10.1088/1748-0221/9/09/C09034
Subject category	hep-ex ; Detectors and Experimental Techniques ; physics.ins-det ; Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CALICE CERN SPS CERN PS
Test beam	H8
Abstract	The DHCAL, the Digital Hadron Calorimeter, is a prototype calorimeter based on Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). The design emphasizes the imaging capabilities of the detector in an effort to optimize the calorimeter for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) to the reconstruction of hadronic jet energies in a colliding beam environment. The readout of the chambers is segmented into 1 x 1 cm2 pads, each read out with a 1-bit (single threshold) resolution. The prototype with approximately 500,000 readout channels underwent extensive testing in both the Fermilab and CERN test beams. This talk presents preliminary findings from the analysis of data collected at the test beams.
Copyright/License	arXiv nonexclusive-distrib. 1.0

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