CERN's linear collider detector group joins forces with CALICE in building the world's first tungsten hadronic calorimeter.
In a hall for test beam experiments at CERN, next to the CLOUD climate experiment and an irradiation facility, sits a detector prototype that is in many ways a first. It's the first ever hadronic sandwich calorimeter (HCal) prototype made of tungsten. It's the first prototype for a detector for the Compact Linear Collider Study […]
Two-day silicon photomultiplier workshop at DESY
Sometimes detector projects that are still at a planning stage can tell detector projects that are already taking data what hardware to use. This is certainly the case when the R&D project has been using, trying and testing a technology that the ‘old hand’ is considering for its upgrade: a relatively new type of sensor […]
This summer, a stage was all the world for some of the men and women of the CALICE collaboration. For the first time, the full prototypes of the electromagnetic calorimeter, the hadronic calorimeter and the tailcatcher and muon tracker (designed and built by international collaborations and assembled in Paris, Hamburg and Northern Illinois respectively) played […]
Team in the beam: Asian ECal makes measurements in the test beam at DESY Layers of the electromagnetic calorimeter in the test beam When scientists take their detector prototypes to a test beam they enter a parallel world. Many basic needs are put on hold – the need for sunlight, regular meals or eight hours […]