CALICE Si/W electromagnetic Calorimeter

TL;DR

The CALICE Si/W electromagnetic calorimeter prototype has been extensively tested, demonstrating promising energy resolution and linearity, paving the way for a large-scale prototype considering realistic constraints.

Contribution

This paper reports the first large-scale test beam results of a Si/W electromagnetic calorimeter prototype, including detailed energy resolution and linearity measurements.

Findings

Energy resolution of (16.6 +- 0.1)%/sqrt(E)

Linearity within 1% level

Successful testing with millions of events

Abstract

The CALICE prototype for a Si/W electromagnetic calorimeter has been tested in large scale test beams. Several million events with electrons and hadrons of different energies and impact angles have been recorded. The energy resolution has been measured to be (16.6 +- 0.1)%/sqrt(E(GeV)) for the stochastic and (1.1 +- 0.1)% for the constant term with a linearity within the 1% level. The next step will be the construction of a large scale prototype which will take realistic experimental costraints into account. This module will naturally benefit from the experience gained with the first prototype.