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Electromagnetic response of a highly granular hadronic calorimeter
The CALICE collaboration, C Adloff, J Blaha, J -J Blaising, C Drancourt, A Espargilière, R Gaglione, N Geffroy, Y Karyotakis, J Prast, G Vouters, K Francis, J Repond, J Smith, L Xia, E Baldolemar, J Li, S T Park, M Sosebee, A P White, J Yu, Y Mikami, N K Watson, T Goto, G Mavromanolakis, M A Thomson, D R Ward, W Yan, D Benchekroun, A Hoummada, Y Khoulaki, M Benyamna, C Cârloganu, F Fehr, P Gay, S Manen, L Royer, G C Blazey, A Dyshkant, J G R Lima, V Zutshi, J -Y Hostachy, L Morin, U Cornett, D David, R Fabbri, G Falley, K Gadow, E Garutti, P Göttlicher, C Günter, S Karstensen, F Krivan, A -I Lucaci-Timoce, S Lu, B Lutz, I Marchesini, N Meyer, S Morozov, V Morgunov, M Reinecke, F Sefkow, P Smirnov, M Terwort, A Vargas-Trevino, N Wattimena, O Wendt, N Feege, J Haller, S Richter, J Samson, P Eckert, A Kaplan, H -Ch Schultz-Coulon, W Shen, R Stamen, A Tadday, B Bilki, E Norbeck, Y Onel, G W Wilson, K Kawagoe, S Uozumi, J A Ballin, P D Dauncey, A -M Magnan, H S Yilmaz, O Zorba, V Bartsch, M Postranecky, M Warren, M Wing, F Salvatore, E Calvo Alamillo, M -C Fouz, J Puerta-Pelayo, V Balagura, B Bobchenko, M Chadeeva, M Danilov, A Epifantsev, O Markin, R Mizuk, E Novikov, V Rusinov, E Tarkovsky, V Kozlov, Y Soloviev, P Buzhan, B Dolgoshein, A Ilyin, V Kantserov, V Kaplin, A Karakash, E Popova, S Smirnov, A Frey, C Kiesling, K Seidel, F Simon, C Soldner, L Weuste, J Bonis, B Bouquet, S Callier, P Cornebise, Ph Doublet, F Dulucq, M Faucci Giannelli, J Fleury, G Guilhem, H Li, G Martin-Chassard, F Richard, Ch de la Taille, R Pöschl, L Raux, N Seguin-Moreau, F Wicek, M Anduze, V Boudry, J-C Brient, D Jeans, P Mora de Freitas, G Musat, M Reinhard, M Ruan, H Videau, B Bulanek, J Zacek, J Cvach, P Gallus, M Havranek, M Janata, J Kvasnicka, D Lednicky, M Marcisovsky, I Polak, J Popule, L Tomasek, M Tomasek, P Ruzicka, P Sicho, J Smolik, V Vrba, J Zalesak, B Belhorma, H Ghazlane, K Kotera, M Nishiyama, T Takeshita, S Tozuka, T Buanes and G Eigen
Published 4 April 2011 •
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Instrumentation,
Volume 6,
April 2011
Citation The CALICE collaboration et al 2011 JINST6 P04003DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/6/04/P04003
Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
C Adloff
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
J Blaha
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
J -J Blaising
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
C Drancourt
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
A Espargilière
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
R Gaglione
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
N Geffroy
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
Y Karyotakis
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
J Prast
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
G Vouters
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux CEDEX, France
K Francis
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Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4815, USA
J Repond
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Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4815, USA
J Smith
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Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4815, USA
L Xia
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Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4815, USA
E Baldolemar
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Department of Physics, SH108, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
J Li
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Department of Physics, SH108, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
S T Park
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Department of Physics, SH108, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
M Sosebee
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Department of Physics, SH108, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
A P White
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Department of Physics, SH108, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
J Yu
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Department of Physics, SH108, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
Y Mikami
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University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
N K Watson
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University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
T Goto
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University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, UK
G Mavromanolakis
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University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, UK
M A Thomson
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University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, UK
D R Ward
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University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, UK
W Yan
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University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, UK
D Benchekroun
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Université Hassan II Aïn Chock, Faculté des sciences, B.P. 5366 Maarif, Casablanca, Morocco
A Hoummada
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Université Hassan II Aïn Chock, Faculté des sciences, B.P. 5366 Maarif, Casablanca, Morocco
Y Khoulaki
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Université Hassan II Aïn Chock, Faculté des sciences, B.P. 5366 Maarif, Casablanca, Morocco
M Benyamna
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Clermont Univertsité, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, BP 10448, F-6300ls 0 Clermont-Ferrand, France
C Cârloganu
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Clermont Univertsité, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, BP 10448, F-6300ls 0 Clermont-Ferrand, France
F Fehr
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Clermont Univertsité, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, BP 10448, F-6300ls 0 Clermont-Ferrand, France
P Gay
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Clermont Univertsité, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, BP 10448, F-6300ls 0 Clermont-Ferrand, France
S Manen
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Clermont Univertsité, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, BP 10448, F-6300ls 0 Clermont-Ferrand, France
L Royer
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Clermont Univertsité, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, BP 10448, F-6300ls 0 Clermont-Ferrand, France
G C Blazey
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NICADD, Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
A Dyshkant
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NICADD, Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
J G R Lima
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NICADD, Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
V Zutshi
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NICADD, Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
J -Y Hostachy
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Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie - Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, 53, rue des Martyrs, 38026 Grenoble CEDEX, France
L Morin
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Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie - Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, 53, rue des Martyrs, 38026 Grenoble CEDEX, France
The CALICE collaboration is studying the design of high
performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for future
International Linear Collider detectors. For the hadronic
calorimeter, one option is a highly granular sampling calorimeter
with steel as absorber and scintillator layers as active material.
High granularity is obtained by segmenting the scintillator into
small tiles individually read out via silicon photo-multipliers
(SiPM). A prototype has been built, consisting of thirty-eight
sensitive layers, segmented into about eight thousand channels. In
2007 the prototype was exposed to positrons and hadrons using the
CERN SPS beam, covering a wide range of beam energies and angles of
incidence. The challenge of cell equalization and calibration of
such a large number of channels is best validated using
electromagnetic processes. The response of the prototype
steel-scintillator calorimeter, including linearity and uniformity,
to electrons is investigated and described.