Hadron Calorimetry

``Paper II" nearly-final draft:
Energy flow in a hadronic cascade: Application to hadron calorimetry
[Postscript] (802 296 bytes)
CALOR97 talk: What really goes on inside a hadron calorimeter?
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Talk postscript version, (1 060 973 bytes)

CALOR97 contributions:
  1. D.E. Groom, "Energy flow in a hadronic cascade: Application to hadron calorimetry." [Postscript] (771 667 bytes)
  2. J.D. Jackson, "Rainbows, plain and fancy," [Postscript] (324 996 bytes)

Groom et al. conference proceedings and publications on the subject (postscript files to be made available when possible, but most of the files are pre-psfig)
  1. D. E. Groom, "Energy Scaling of Low-Energy Neutron Yield, the $e/\pi$ Ratio, and Hadronic Response in a Calorimeter," pp. 59-76 in Proc. of the Workshop on Calorimetry for the Superconducting Super Collider, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 13-17 March 1989, ed. R. Donaldson and M.G.D. Gilchriese, World Scientific (1990).
  2. D. E. Groom, "Energy Scaling of Low-Energy Neutron Yield, the $e/\pi$ Ratio, and Hadronic Response in a Calorimeter," pp. 549-550 in Proc. of the ECFA Study Week on Instrumentation Technology for High-Luminosity Hadron Colliders, Barcelona, Spain, 14-21 Sept. 1989, ed. by E. Fernandez and G. Jarlskog, CERN 89-10 and ECFA 89-124 (1989).
  3. D. E. Groom, "Contributions of Albedo and Noncompensation to Calorimeter Resolution," pp. 403-406 in Proc. of the 1990 DPF Summer Study on High Energy Physics Research Directions for the Decade, Snowmass CO, June 25-July 13, 1990, ed. by E. L. Berger and R. Craven, World Scientific (1992).
  4. D. E. Groom and E. M. Wang, "Jet Response of a Homogenous Calorimeter," pp. 385-387 in Proc. of the Fort Worth Symposium on Detector R&D for the SSC, Forth Worth TX, 15-18 Oct. 1990, ed. by M. G. D. Gilchriese and V. Kelly , World Scientific (1991).
  5. D. E. Groom and E. M. Wang, "Jet Response of an Ideal Calorimeter," Vol. III, pp. 315-319 in Proc. of the ECFA Large Hadron Collider Workshop, Aachen (4-9 October 1990), CERN 90-10 (1990).
  6. D. E. Groom, "Four-Component Approximation to Calorimeter Resolution," pp. 376-381 in Proc. II Inter. Conf. on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, Capri, Italy, 14-18 October 1991, ed. by A. Ereditato, World Scientific (1992).
  7. D.E. Groom, "The $\pi/p$ ratio in hadron calorimetry," (Intended as a contribution for the IV Inter. Conf. on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, Isola d'Elba, Italy (19-25 Sept. 1993), but I could not obtain funding to attend the conference!); 26 July 1993. [Postscript] (385 869 bytes)
  8. T.A. Gabriel, D.E. Groom, P.K. Job, N.V. Mokhov, and G.R. Stevenson, "Incident Energy Dependence of Hadronic Activity," p. 48 in Proc. of the Workshop on Simulating Radiation Environments, Santa Fe, NM, 11-15 January, 1993, ed. A. P. T. Palounek, Los Alamos National Laboratory Conference Report LA-12835-C (1994).
    Superseded by NIM paper below.
  9. T.A. Gabriel, D.E. Groom, P.K. Job, N.V. Mokhov, and G.R. Stevenson, "Energy Dependence of Hadronic Activity," Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A338, 336-347 (1994). [Postscript] (694 830 bytes)
  10. D. E. Groom, ``Energy flow in a hadronic cascade: Application to hadron calorimetry,'' Proc. Seventh Inter. Conf. on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, Tucson, Arizona, 9-14 November 1997, ed. by E. Cheu, T. Embry, J. Rutherfoord, R. Wigmans, World Scientific (1998). [Postscript] (771 667 bytes)
  11. D. E. Groom, "Misconceptions concerning the energy resolution of an ideal hadronic calorimeter,'' abstract for stillborn a CALOR99 paper. (Author unable to attend workshop.) [Postscript]
  12. D. E. Groom, ``Energy flow in a hadronic cascade: Application to hadron calorimetry,'' PAPER II draft for NIM. So far, this is exactly the same as the CALOR97 paper except for the format. [Postscript] (802 296 bytes)


Don Groom (PDG home page) (CCD project home page)

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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17-November-1997