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

摘要

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