TY  - JOUR
AU  - CALICE Collaboration (White, A. et al
AU  - Irles, A.
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Design, construction and commissioning of a technological prototype of a highly granular SiPM-on-tile scintillator-steel hadronic calorimeter
T2  - J. Instrum.
JO  - Journal of Instrumentation
SP  - P11018 - 39pp
VL  - 18
IS  - 11
PB  - IOP Publishing Ltd
KW  - Calorimeters
KW  - Detector alignment and calibration methods (lasers
KW  - sources
KW  - par ticle- beams)
KW  - Detector design and construction technologies and materials
AB  - The CALICE collaboration is developing highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for detectors at future energy frontier electron-positron colliders. After successful tests of a physics prototype, a technological prototype of the Analog Hadron Calorimeter has been built, based on a design and construction techniques scalable to a collider detector. The prototype consists of a steel absorber structure and active layers of small scintillator tiles that are individually read out by directly coupled SiPMs. Each layer has an active area of 72 x 72 cm2 and a tile size of 3 x 3 cm2. With 38 active layers, the prototype has nearly 22, 000 readout channels, and its total thickness amounts to 4.4 nuclear interaction lengths. The dedicated readout electronics provide time stamping of each hit with an expected resolution of about 1 ns. The prototype was constructed in 2017 and commissioned in beam tests at DESY. It recorded muons, hadron showers and electron showers at different energies in test beams at CERN in 2018. In this paper, the design of the prototype, its construction and commissioning are described. The methods used to calibrate the detector are detailed, and the performance achieved in terms of uniformity and stability is presented.
SN  - 1748-0221
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15327
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/11/P11018
DO  - 10.1088/1748-0221/18/11/P11018
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:001127235400003
ID  - CALICECollaborationWhite+Irles2023
ER  -