Recent DHCAL Developments

This talk reports on recent progress concerning the development of a Digital Hadron Calorimeter with Resistive Plate Chambers as active elements. After the successful testing of a Digital Hadron Calorimeter prototype, the DHCAL, in the Fermilab and CERN test beams, the DHCAL group is now tackling some of the remaining technical issues which were not addressed specifically with the prototype. The talk reports on developments related to the RPC chamber design, to improvements in the RPC rate capabilities, the high voltage distribution system, and a gas recirculation system.Comment: Talk presented at the International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS13) Tokyo, Japan, 11-15 November 201

"Here It Is Our Land, The Two of Us": Women, Men and Land in a Zimbabwean Resettlement Area

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Experimental Tests of Particle Flow Calorimetry

Precision physics at future colliders requires highly granular calorimeters to support the Particle Flow Approach for event reconstruction. This article presents a review of about 10 - 15 years of R\&D, mainly conducted within the CALICE collaboration, for this novel type of detector. The performance of large scale prototypes in beam tests validate the technical concept of particle flow calorimeters. The comparison of test beam data with simulation, of e.g.\ hadronic showers, supports full detector studies and gives deeper insight into the structure of hadronic cascades than was possible previously.Comment: 55 pages, 83 figures, to appear in Reviews of Modern physic

Tests of QCD: Summary of DIS 2000

This summary of the working group 2 of DIS 2000 encompasses experimental and theoretical results of jet physics, open and bound state heavy flavour production, prompt photon production, next-to-leading order QCD calculations and beyond, instantons, fragmentation, event shapes, and power corrections, primarily from deep-inelastic scattering and photoproduction at HERA, but also from the LEP and Tevatron colliders.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX, including 8 PostScript figures. Talk given at the 8th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering (DIS2000), 25th-30th April 2000, Liverpool, England, to appear in the proceeding

Operational Experience and First Results with a Highly Granular Tungsten Analog Hadron Calorimeter

Precision physics at future multi-TeV lepton colliders such as CLIC requires excellent jet energy resolution. The detectors need deep calorimeter systems to limit the energy leakage also for very highly energetic particles and jets. At the same time, compact physical dimensions are mandatory to permit the installation of the complete calorimeter system inside high-field solenoidal magnets. This requires very dense absorbers, making tungsten a natural choice for hadron calorimeters at such a future collider. To study the performance of such a calorimeter, a physics prototype with tungsten absorbers and scintillator tiles with SiPM readout as active elements has been constructed and has been tested in particle beams at CERN over a wide energy range from 1 GeV to 300 GeV. We report on the construction and on the operational experience obtained with muon, electron and hadron beams.Comment: To appear in the conference record of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, October 201

Construction of a Digital Hadron Calorimeter

The DHCAL collaboration is assembling a large scale prototype Digital Hadron Calorimeter (DHCAL). The calorimeter utilizes Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as active medium and features of the order of 400,000 1 \times 1 cm2 pads with binary (or digital) electronic readout. The purpose of the prototype is to provide detailed measurements of hadronic showers and to prove the concept of a DHCAL with RPCs as active elements

Long-Range Correlations in Deep-Inelastic Scattering

Multiplicity correlations between the current and target regions of the Breit frame in deep-inelastic scattering processes are studied. It is shown that the correlations are sensitive to the first-order perturbative QCD effects and can be used to extract the behavior of the boson-gluon fusion rates as a function of the Bjorken variable. The behavior of the correlations is derived analytically and analyzed using a Monte Carlo simulation.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, preprint ANL-HEP-PR-98-46 (accepted by J. Phys. G