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Testing hadronic interaction models using a highly granular silicon-tungsten calorimeter

  • The CALICE Collaboration
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • University of Iowa
  • Tsinghua University
  • University of Bergen
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Cambridge
  • Université Hassan II Aïn Chock - Casablanca et LASAARE
  • Clermont-Auvergne University
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Sussex
  • Kyushu University
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Ghent University
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • LTHE (UMR 5564 CNRS/IRD/Université de Grenoble)
  • c/o DESY
  • Universität Hamburg
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Heidelberg
  • Chonbuk National University
  • University of Kansas
  • University College London
  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • COMSATS University Islamabad
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • University of Virginia
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • Charles University
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Tokyo
  • Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal

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Abstract

Abstract A detailed study of hadronic interactions is presented using data recorded with the highly granular CALICE silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter. Approximately 350,000 selected π- events at energies between 2 and 10 GeV have been studied. The predictions of several physics models available within the GEANT4 simulation tool kit are compared to this data. A reasonable overall description of the data is observed; the Monte Carlo predictions are within 20% of the data, and for many observables much closer. The largest quantitative discrepancies are found in the longitudinal and transverse distributions of reconstructed energy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number57738
Pages (from-to)240-254
Number of pages15
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume794
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jul 2015

Keywords

  • CALICE
  • Data and simulations
  • Electromagnetic silicon tungsten calorimeter
  • Hadronic showers
  • Highly granular detectors
  • Linear collider

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