CALICE ScECAL Beam Test at Fermilab

TL;DR

This paper reports on the beam test of the second prototype of the scintillator-strip electromagnetic calorimeter (ScECAL) at Fermilab, evaluating its performance with various particle beams to assess its suitability for particle flow algorithms.

Contribution

First beam test results of a new ScECAL prototype demonstrating its potential for high-granularity calorimetry in particle physics experiments.

Findings

Preliminary performance data of ScECAL with electron, pion, and muon beams.

Assessment of calorimeter's response across 1-32 GeV energy range.

Initial validation of ScECAL's design for particle flow applications.

Abstract

The scintillator-strip electromagnetic calorimeter (ScECAL) is one of the calorimeter technologies which can achieve fine granularity required for the particle flow algorithm. Second prototype of the ScECAL has been built and tested with analog hadron calorimeter (AHCAL) and tail catcher (TCMT) in September 2008 at Fermilab meson test beam facility. Data are taken with 1 to 32 GeV of electron, pion and muon beams to evaluate all the necessary performances of the ScECAL, AHCAL and TCMT system. This manuscript describes overview of the beam test and very preliminary results focusing on the ScECAL part.