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Title: Performance of the first prototype of the CALICE scintillator strip electromagnetic calorimeter

Journal Article · · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX (United States)
  3. Univ. of Bergen, Bergen (Norway)
  4. Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom)
  5. Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  6. Univ. Hassan II Ain Chock, Casablanca (Morocco)
  7. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  8. Univ. Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
  9. Ghent Univ., Gent (Belgium)
  10. Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)
  11. Univ. Josepth Fourier Grenoble, Grenoble (France)
  12. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  13. Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)
  14. Univ. of Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany)
  15. Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States)
  16. Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
  17. Kyushu Univ. (Japan)
  18. Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
  19. Univ. College London, London (United Kingdom)
  20. Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Egham (United Kingdom)
  21. Univ. catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
  22. Univ. de Lyon, Villeurbanne (France)
  23. Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid (Spain)
  24. Institute of Particle Physics of Canada and Department of Physics, Quebec (Canada)
  25. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russia)
  26. Moscow Physical Engineering Inst., Moscow (Russia)
  27. Max Planck Inst. fur Physik, Munich (Germany)
  28. Univ. de Paris-Sud (France)
  29. Ecole Polytechnique, Palasieau (France)
  30. Charles Univ., (Czech Republic)
  31. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), Prague (Czech Republic)
  32. Centre National de l'Energie, Rabat (Morocco)
  33. Shinshu Univ., Nagano (Japan)
  34. The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)
  35. Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu (Korea, Republic of)
  36. Bergische Univ. Wuppertal, Wuppertal (Germany)
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A first prototype of a scintillator strip-based electromagnetic calorimeter was built, consisting of 26 layers of tungsten absorber plates interleaved with planes of 45 × 10 × 3 mm³ plastic scintillator strips. Data were collected using a positron test beam at DESY with momenta between 1 and 6 GeV/c. The prototype's performance is presented in terms of the linearity and resolution of the energy measurement. These results represent an important milestone in the development of highly granular calorimeters using scintillator strip technology. A number of possible design improvements were identified, which should be implemented in a future detector of this type. This technology is being developed for a future linear collider experiment, aiming at the precise measurement of jet energies using particle flow techniques.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Contributing Organization:
The CALICECollaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1196379
Journal Information:
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 763, Issue C; ISSN 0168-9002
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 13 works
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Experimental Tests of Particle Flow Calorimetry text January 2016

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