Test beam study of the PANDA shashlyk calorimeter prototype

The Shashlyk calorimeter prototype for the PANDA experiment has been constructed at IHEP and experimentally tested using the 1-19 GeV electron beam with high precision momentum tagging at the IHEP accelerator. Results of the first measurements for the fine-segmented Shashlyk calorimeter prototype in the wide energy range up to 19 GeV are presented. Fair energy and position resolutions having been obtained are in a good agreement with the Monte-Carlo simulations. Detection inefficiency due to holes for straight light fibers has turned out to be negligible for PANDA. Plans for the near term future including approaching test beam study of π0 reconstruction capability of shashlyk prototype are also discussed.