First results of the CALICE SDHCAL technological prototype

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype, built in 2011, was exposed to beams of hadrons, electrons and muons in two short periods in 2012 on two different beam lines of the CERN SPS. The prototype with its 48 active layers, made of Glass Resistive Plate Chambers and their emb...

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Published in:Journal of instrumentation 2016-04, Vol.11 (4), p.P04001-P04001
Main Authors: Buridon, V., Combaret, C., Caponetto, L., Eté, R., Garillot, G., Grenier, G., Han, R., Ianigro, J.C., Kieffer, R., Laktineh, I., Lumb, N., Mathez, H., Mirabito, L., Petrukhin, A., Steen, A., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Belkadhi, K., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Haddad, Y., Ruan, M., Shpak, K., Videau, H., Yu, D., Callier, S., Lorenzo, S. Conforti Di, Dulucq, F., Taille, Ch. de La, Martin-Chassard, G., Raux, L., Seguin-Moreau, N., Boumediene, D., Carloganu, C., Français, V., Bonis, J., Cornebise, P., Faucci-Giannelli, M., Frisson, T., Li, H., Richard, F., Rouëné, J., Zhang, Zhongkai, B., Bouquet, Ph, Doublet, R., Pöschl, F., Wicek
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Calibration
Digital
Efficiency
Electronics
Hadrons
Instrumentation
Instrumentation and Detectors
Physics
Prototypes
Synchrotrons
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Summary:The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype, built in 2011, was exposed to beams of hadrons, electrons and muons in two short periods in 2012 on two different beam lines of the CERN SPS. The prototype with its 48 active layers, made of Glass Resistive Plate Chambers and their embedded readout electronics, was run in triggerless and power-pulsing mode. The performance of the SDHCAL during the test beam was found to be very satisfactory with an efficiency exceeding 90% for almost all of the 48 active layers. A linear response (within + or - 5%) and a good energy resolution are obtained for a large range of hadronic energies (5-80 GeV) by applying appropriate calibration coefficients to the collected data for both the Digital (Binary) and the Semi-Digital (Multi-threshold) modes of the SDHCAL prototype. The Semi-Digital mode shows better performance at energies exceeding 30 GeV.
ISSN:1748-0221
1748-0221
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/11/04/P04001