Tests of a Particle Flow Algorithm with CALICE test beam data

Abstract

The studies presented in this paper provide a first experimental test of the Particle Flow Algorithm (PFA) concept using data recorded in high granularity calorimeters. Pairs of overlaid pion showers from CALICE 2007 test beam data are reconstructed by the PandoraPFA program developed to implement PFA for a future lepton collider.

Keywords

• Calorimeters
• Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics
• Calorimeter methods
• Detector modelling