Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Drake, G.
• Repond, J.
• Underwood, D.
• Wicklund, A.B.
• Kuhlmann, S.
• Magill, S.
• Xia, L.
• Butler, J.
• Oreglia, M.

Titel

RPCs as a medium for digital hadron calorimetry for the linear collider

Ist Teil von

• IEEE Symposium Conference Record Nuclear Science 2004, 2004, Vol.1, p.619-623 Vol. 1

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Link zum Volltext

• IEEE_Xplore

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The purpose of this project is to develop a digital hadron calorimeter (DHCAL) using resistive plate chambers (RPCs) as active medium. RPCs are ideally suited for such a calorimeter: they are simple in design, cheap to build, reliable and robust, and the readout can be segmented into small pads of say 1 cm/sup 2/, as required for a DHCAL at the linear collider. Work on developing these chambers has been underway at Argonne for about two years. Several single-gap and multi-gap chambers operating in avalanche mode have been built and have been tested thoroughly with sources and cosmic rays. Tests with up to 64 pads of 1 cm/sup 2/ each are ongoing. Furthermore, considerable effort is dedicated to the development of the readout system, a challenge by itself given the large number of channels, of order 400K for the prototype and 50/spl times/106 for the entire DHCAL.