Characterisation of different stages of hadronic showers using the CALICE Si-W ECAL physics prototype
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Authors
Colleges, School and Institutes
External organisations
- University of Bergen
- Kyungpook National University
- Northern Illinois University
- Kyushu University
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie - Université Grenoble-Alpes
- DESY
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- University of Hamburg
- University of Kansas Lawrence
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas
Abstract
A detailed investigation of hadronic interactions is performed using π−-mesons with energies in the range 2–10 GeV incident on a high granularity silicon–tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter. The data were recorded at FNAL in 2008. The region in which the π−-mesons interact with the detector material and the produced secondary particles are characterised using a novel track-finding algorithm that reconstructs tracks within hadronic showers in a calorimeter in the absence of a magnetic field. The principle of carrying out detector monitoring and calibration using secondary tracks is also demonstrated.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 41-52 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
| Volume | 937 |
| Early online date | 11 May 2019 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sep 2019 |
Keywords
- Calorimeters, hadronic showers, high-granularity, silicon–tungsten