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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
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
Hadronic showers in the CALICE calorimeter prototypes
The CALICE collaboration has constructed highly granular electromagnetic and
hadronic calorimeter prototypes to evaluate technologies for the use in
detector systems at the future International Linear Collider. These
calorimeters have been tested extensively in particle beams at CERN and at
Fermilab. We present preliminary results of an analysis of hadronic events in
the combined system under test at CERN in 2006 and 2007, comprising a SiW ECAL,
a scintillator tile HCAL and a scintillator strip tail catcher, the latter two
with SiPM readout. The properties of hadronic showers in the HCAL, compared to
simulations performed with GEANT4, are discussed. Particular emphasis is placed
on the study of the linearity of the detector response and on the single
particle energy resolution achievable with simple weighting algorithms based on
the local energy density in the hadronic showers.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of TIPP09, Tsukuba,
Japan, March 200
Multi-hadron Final States
This summary aims to highlight major results and insights gained from recent
studies of hadronic final states in ep, ppbar, e+e-, as well as relevant
theoretical developments, presented in the Multi-hadron final states parallel
sessions of the DIS2002 workshop held in Krakow, Poland in May 2002.Comment: Contributed to the X International Workshop on Deep Inelastic
Scattering (DIS2002), Krakow, Poland, 30 April - 4 May, 200
Analysis of Muon Events in the DHCAL
The Digital Hadron Calorimeter (DHCAL) is a large prototype of an imaging
calorimeter using Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as active media. The readout
is segmented into 1\times1 cm2 pads, each with a single bit resolution, hence
the denomination of digital. The total channel count is close to 500,000. The
DHCAL construction and assembly was completed in fall 2010, followed by a
series of test beam campaigns in the FTBF test beam at Fermilab.
In this paper we report on the analysis of events collected with the
broadband muon beam. These events are utilized to geometrically align the
layers horizontally and vertically, to establish the response as function of
position on a single readout pad, and to measure the performance
characteristics of the RPCs, i.e. the efficiency and average pad multiplicity.
The latter were measured in both 'clean' regions of the detector, i.e. away
from structures such as the rims of the chambers, and as function of position
on the entire vertical plane. In addition, the paper reviews the preliminary
measurements of the noise rate in the detector
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
Overview of the DHCAL Project
We review the status and plans of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter with
Resistive Plate Chambers project
Resistive Plate Chambers for Imaging Calorimetry - the DHCAL
The DHCAL, the Digital Hadron Calorimeter, is a prototype calorimeter based
on Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). The design emphasizes the imaging
capabilities of the detector in an effort to optimize the calorimeter for the
application of Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) to the reconstruction of
hadronic jet energies in a colliding beam environment. The readout of the
chambers is segmented into 1 x 1 cm2 pads, each read out with a 1-bit (single
threshold) resolution. The prototype with approximately 500,000 readout
channels underwent extensive testing in both the Fermilab and CERN test beams.
This talk presents preliminary findings from the analysis of data collected at
the test beams
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