Author :
Callegari, G. ; Piemontese, L. ; De Sangro, R. ; Peruzzi, I. ; Piccolo, M. ; Busza, W. ; Friedman, J. ; Johnson, A. ; Kendall, H. ; Kistiakowsky, V. ; Lyons, T. ; Osborne, L. ; Rosenson, L. ; Verdier, R. ; Band, H.R. ; Bisello, D. ; Loreti, M. ; Alpat, B.
Abstract :
A prototype hadron calorimeter, of similar design to the Warm Iron Calorimeter (WIC) planned for the SLD experiment, has been built and its performance has been studied in a test beam. The WIC is an iron sampling calorimeter whose active elements are plastic streamer tubes similar to those used for the Mont-Blanc proton decay experiment. The construction and operation of the tubes will be briefly described together with their use in an iron calorimeter - muon tracker. Efficiency, resolution and linearity have been measured in a hadron/muon beam up to 11 GeV. The measured values correspond to the SLD design goals.
