May 26 – 30, 2008
Biblioteca Universitaria, Pavia, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Towards a realistic calorimeter with SiPM readout

May 30, 2008, 9:00 AM
20m
Salone Teresiano (Biblioteca Universitaria, Pavia, Italy)

Salone Teresiano

Biblioteca Universitaria, Pavia, Italy

Strada Nuova, 65
oral presentation Calorimetric Techniques Calorimetric Techniques

Speaker

Felix Sefkow (DESY)

Summary

The CALICE collaboration is developing highly granular electromagnetic
and hadronic calorimeters for a future high energy electron positron
linear collider. We present a conceptual design for a scintillator
tile HCAL with SiPM readout. As a first step, a cubic-meter sized
physics prototype has been constructed and operated successfully in
the CERN SPS test beam; results have been submitted to this
conference. In contrast to the test beam HCAL, a realistic calorimeter
has to be compact and must have minimal dead zones. The design presented
is based on highly integrated, ultra-low power read-out ASICs
embedded in the active detector layers with minimized thickness. A
scheme for integrating an optical calibration system without light
transmission fibers is also proposed. Mechanical, thermal, electronics
and DAQ solutions are discussed, and results for component tests are
presented.

Primary author

Prof. David Ward (University of Cambridge)

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