Published May 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Study of the interactions of pions in the CALICE silicon-tungsten calorimeter prototype

  • 1. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, 9 Chemin de Bellevue BP110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex (France)
  • 2. Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4815 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, SH108, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019 (United States)
  • 4. University of Bergen, Inst. of Physics, Allegaten 55, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
  • 5. University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT (United Kingdom)
  • 6. University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE (United Kingdom)
  • 7. Universite Hassan II Ain Chock, Faculte des sciences. B.P. 5366 Maarif, Casablanca (Morocco)
  • 8. CERN, 1211 Geneve 23 (Switzerland)
  • 9. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Universite Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, 24 avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubiere CEDEX (France)

Description

A prototype silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter for an ILC detector was tested in 2007 at the CERN SPS test beam. Data were collected with electron and hadron beams in the energy range 8 to 80 GeV. The analysis described here focuses on the interactions of pions in the calorimeter. One of the main objectives of the CALICE program is to validate the Monte Carlo tools available for the design of a full-sized detector. The interactions of pions in the Si-W calorimeter are therefore confronted with the predictions of various physical models implemented in the GEANT4 simulation framework.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/5/05/P05007

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Instrumentation
Journal Volume
5
Journal Issue
05
Journal Page Range
p. P05007
ISSN
1748-0221

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Collaborations
CALICE Collaboration