HIGHLY GRANULAR SCINTILLATOR-BASED CALORIMETRY WITH NOVEL PHOTODETECTORS FOR A FUTURE LINEAR COLLIDER

摘要

We report upon the design, construction, and operation experience of a small scintillator tile hadronic calorimeter prototype. Scintillator tiles are read out via wavelength shifting fibers which guide the light to novel photodetectors, the Silicon Photomultipliers. The experience gained with the prototype is being used now for the construction of a calorimeter with 8000 channels. This calorimeter will be a prototype for a future Linear Collider detector. It will be also used to prove experimentally the Particle Flow method for jet energy measurements.