A layer correlation technique for pion energy calibration at the 2004 ATLAS Combined Beam Test

0367959 - FZÚ 2012 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Abat, E. - Abdallah, J.M. - Addy, T.N. - Lokajíček, Miloš - Němeček, Stanislav
A layer correlation technique for pion energy calibration at the 2004 ATLAS Combined Beam Test.
Journal of Instrumentation. Roč. 6, č. 6 (2010), P06001/1-P06001/28. ISSN 1748-0221. E-ISSN 1748-0221
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LA08047
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100502
Keywords : ATLAS * calorimeter methods * calorimeters * detector modelling and simulations * pattern recognition * cluster finding * calibration and fitting methods
Subject RIV: BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics
Impact factor: 3.148, year: 2010

A new method for calibrating the hadron response of a segmented calorimeter is developed and successfully applied to beam test data. It is based on a principal component analysis of the calorimeter layer energy deposits, exploiting longitudinal shower development information to improve the measured energy resolution. Corrections for invisible hadronic energy and energy lost in dead material in front of and between the calorimeters of the ATLAS experiment were calculated with simulated Geant4 Monte Carlo events and used to reconstruct the energy of pions impinging on the calorimeters during the 2004 Barrel Combined Beam Test at the CERN H8 area. For pion beams with energies between 20 and 180 GeV, the particle energy is reconstructed within 3% and the energy resolution is improved by 11% to 25% compared to the response at the electromagnetic scale.
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