Why gas sampling calorimetry

Until a few years ago gas sampling calorimeters were seldom used in high energy experiments where track multiplicities were low and energy resolutions obtained from scintillator sampling were substantially better than gas sampling. Gas sampling calorimeters have gained in popularity during the last few years because of needs for fine segmentation, especially in colliding beam experiments at super high energies in order to provide a detector with good pattern recognition capability and e, γ, π and μ identification within dense tracks. The gap in energy resolution between scintillator and gas sampling calorimeters has become less significant with recent advances in gas sampling. The papers contributed to the proceedings of this workshop are about some of the recent advances in this method