Pion and proton showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter

Abstract

Showers produced by positive hadrons in the highly granular CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter were studied. The experimental data were collected at CERN and FNAL for single particles with initial momenta from 10 to 80 GeV/c.

The calorimeter response and resolution and spatial characteristics of shower development for proton-and pion-induced showers for test beam data and simulations using GEANT4 version 9.6 are compared.

Keywords

• Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
• Calorimeters
• Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter
• interaction of photons with matter
• interaction of hadrons with matter
• etc)
• Calorimeter methods