The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter

Conference · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ANIMMA.2015.7465554· OSTI ID:22531231

Henriques, A. ^[1]

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1. CERN, (Switzerland)

TileCal is the Hadronic calorimeter covering the most central region of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. It uses iron plates as absorber and plastic scintillating tiles as the active material. Scintillation light produced in the tiles is transmitted by wavelength shifting fibres to photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The resulting electronic signals from the approximately 10000 PMTs are measured and digitised every 25 ns before being transferred to off-detector data-acquisition systems. This contribution will review in a first part the performances of the calorimeter during run 1, obtained from calibration data, and from studies of the response of particles from collisions. In a second part it will present the solutions being investigated for the ongoing and future upgrades of the calorimeter electronics. (authors)

• Research Organization: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE, 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10016-5997 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22531231
• Report Number(s): ANIMMA--2015-IO-178
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ATLAS DETECTOR
CALIBRATION
CERN LHC
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
FIBERS
HADRONS
IRON
PHOTOMULTIPLIERS
PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS
PLASTIC SCINTILLATORS
PLATES
SHOWER COUNTERS
VISIBLE RADIATION