Realization and Test of the Engineering Prototype of the CALICE Tile Hadron Calorimeter

TL;DR

This paper reports on the development and testing of an engineering prototype for a scintillating tile hadron calorimeter with integrated electronics, demonstrating its feasibility for future collider detectors.

Contribution

It presents the design, construction, and initial testing results of a novel calorimeter prototype with fully integrated front-end electronics.

Findings

Prototype contains about 2500 detector channels.

Test results demonstrate the feasibility of the integrated design.

Initial performance data supports future development.

Abstract

The CALICE collaboration is currently developing an engineering prototype of an analog hadron calorimeter for a future linear collider detector. It is based on scintillating tiles that are individually read out by silicon photomultipliers. The prototype will contain about 2500 detector channels, which corresponds to one calorimeter layer and aims at demonstrating the feasibility of building a detector with fully integrated front-end electronics. The concept and engineering status of the prototype, as well as results from the DESY test setups are reported here.