24–28 May 2021
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Status and plans for the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter upgrade project

26 May 2021, 07:48
18m
Parallel session talk Experiments: Calorimeters Experiments: Calorimeters

Speaker

Mr Thorben Quast (CERN)

Description

The CMS Collaboration is preparing to build replacement endcap calorimeters for the HL-LHC era.
The new high-granularity calorimeter (HGCAL) is, as the name implies, a highly-granular sampling calorimeter with approximately six million silicon sensor channels (~1.1cm^2 or 0.5cm^2 cells) and about four hundred thousand channels of scintillator tiles readout with on-tile silicon photomultipliers.
The calorimeter is designed to operate in the harsh radiation environment at the HL-LHC, where the average number of interactions per bunch crossing is expected to exceed 140.
Besides measuring energy and position of the energy deposits the electronics is also designed to measure the time of their arrival with a precision on the order of 50 ps.
In this talk, the reasoning and ideas behind the HGCAL, the current status of the project, the many lessons learnt so far, and the challenges ahead will be presented.

TIPP2020 abstract resubmission? Yes, this would have been presented at TIPP2020.

Primary author

Mr Thorben Quast (CERN)

Presentation materials