A high granularity calorimeter for the CMS endcaps at the HL-LHC
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Rusack, Roger
- Source
- 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD) Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD), 2016. :1-6 Oct, 2016
- Subject
- General Topics for Engineers
Silicon
Detectors
Large Hadron Collider
Scintillators
Copper
Neutrons
silicon calorimetry
HL-LHC
CMS
- Language
Calorimetry at the High Luminosity LHC faces many technical challenges. In the forward direction the levels of radiation and the unprecedented in-time event pileup make detector design and operation particularly difficult. To meet these challenges, the CMS experiment has decided to construct a sampling calorimeter with silicon as the primary active medium. This calorimeter — the High Granularity Calorimeter — will have an unprecedented degree transverse and longitudinal segmentation for a collider detector, both for electromagnetic and hadronic compartments. In this paper we discuss the motivation for this choice of calorimeter and its design.