CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Note
Report number	ATL-TILECAL-PROC-2024-013
Title	Performance and calibration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter
Author(s)	Sotto-Maior Peralva, Bernardo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR)) ; ATLAS Tile Collaboration
Corporate Author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Collaboration	ATLAS Collaboration
Publication	2024
Imprint	30 Oct 2024
Number of pages	4
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	ATLAS experiment ; Tile Calorimeter ; High-energy calorimetry ; Calibration systems
Abstract	The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is a sampling hadronic calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS experiment, with steel as absorber and plastic scintillators as active medium. The scintillators are read-out by the wavelength shifting fibres coupled to the photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The analogue signals from the PMTs are amplified, shaped, digitized by sampling the signal every 25 ns and stored on detector until a trigger decision is received. The TileCal frontend electronics reads out the signals produced by about 10,000 channels measuring energies ranging from about 30 MeV to about 2 TeV. Each stage of the signal production from scintillation light to the signal reconstruction is monitored and calibrated. Results using LHC Run-2 and Run-3 data will be shown. A summary of the performance results, including the calibration, stability, absolute energy scale, uniformity and time resolution, will be presented.