https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09292-5
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Study of energy response and resolution of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter to hadrons of energies from 16 to 30 GeV
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Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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Physics Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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LPC, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia, CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
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School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Research Institute for Nuclear Problems of Byelorussian State University, Minsk, Belarus
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E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Institute for High Energy Physics of the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Protvino, Russia
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Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP, Lisbon, Portugal
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Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
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Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
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Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany
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Fysiska institutionen, Lunds universitet, Lund, Sweden
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Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Nevis Laboratory, Columbia University, Irvington, NY, USA
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Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
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High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Received:
9
February
2021
Accepted:
28
May
2021
Published online:
25
June
2021
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.
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