Study of energy response and resolution of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter to hadrons of energies from 16 to 30 GeV

• Published in: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Particles and fields, 2021-06, Vol.81 (6), p.1-18, Article 549
• Main Authors: Abdallah, Jalal, Angelidakis, Stylianos, Arabidze, Giorgi, Atanov, Nikolay, Bernhard, Johannes, Bonnefoy, Roméo, Bossio, Jonathan, Bouabid, Ryan, Carrio, Fernando, Davidek, Tomas, Dubovsky, Michal, Fiorini, Luca, Aparisi, Francisco Brandan Garcia, Carli, Tancredi, Gerbershagen, Alexander, Goksu, Hazal, Hadavand, Haleh, Harkusha, Siarhei, Hlaluku, Dingane, Hibbard, Michael James, Hildebrand, Kevin, Hrynevich, Aliaksei, Jejelava, Juansher, Kamenshchikov, Andrey, Kazakos, Stergios, Kello, Tomas, Korolkov, Ilya, Kulchitsky, Yuri, Lazar, Hadar, Lekalakala, Nthabiseng, Little, Jared, Madar, Romain, Manen, Samuel, Martins, Filipe, Masuku, Thabo, Minashvili, Irakli, Mkrtchyan, Tigran, Mlynarikova, Michaela, Moayedi, Seyedali, Nemecek, Stanislav, Nodulman, Lawrence, Oganezov, Robert, Olsson, Mats Joakim Robert, Oreglia, Mark, Pani, Priscilla, Paramonov, Alexander, Pottgen, Ruth, Reid, Tres, Bosca, Sergi Rodriguez, Perez, Andrea Rodriguez, Rosten, Rachel Christine, Saha, Puja, Santoni, Claudio, Sargsyan, Laura, Schaefer, Douglas Michael, Shalanda, Nikolay, Smith, Andrew Caldon, Solodkov, Alexander, Solovyanov, Oleg, Starovoitov, Pavel, Starchenko, Evgeny, Tas, Petr, Tereshchenko, Viacheslav, Tlou, Sijiye Humphry, Ughetto, Michael, Uhliarova, Lea, Usai, Giulio, Santurio, Eduardo Valdes, Biot, Alberto Valero, Volpi, Guido, Zakareishvili, Tamar, Zuccarello, Pedro Diego
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation; Acceleratorfysik och instrumentering; Astronomy; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Elementary Particles; Fysik; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; High energy physics; High Energy Physics - Experiment; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; Instrumentation and Detectors; Kaons; Laboratories; Large Hadron Collider; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Natural Sciences; Naturvetenskap; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Physics; Physical Sciences; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Pions; Protons; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Regular Article - Experimental Physics; Sensors; String Theory; Synchrotrons; Uncertainty
• ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052; 1434-6052
• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09292-5

Three spare modules of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter were exposed to test beams from the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN in 2017. The detector’s measurements of the energy response and resolution to positive pions and kaons, and protons with energies ranging from 16 to 30 GeV are reported. The results have uncertainties of a few percent. They were compared to the predictions of the Geant4-based simulation program used in ATLAS to estimate the response of the detector to proton-proton events at the Large Hadron Collider. The determinations obtained using experimental and simulated data agree within the uncertainties.