(1) Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Abstract:
The aim of this work is to estimate the shower leakage from the CMS Endcap Hadron calorimeter (HE) due to electromagnetic
secondaries and punch-through in the region of the ME1/1 Forward Muon Station. Two configurations are considered: with and
without the CMS Endcap Electromagnetic calorimeter (EE). The experimental data have been taken during the combined beam test
of CMS subdetectors (HE, ME, RPC, DT) at the CERN H2 beam facility in 2004. Serial CSC chambers (ready for installation in
CMS) fully equipped with readout electronics have been exposed. Simulation of a beam test setup has been performed using the
GEANT4-based simulation software package OSCAR.
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