| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 320, 2025
20th International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics (CALOR 2024)
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| Article Number | 00001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202532000001 | |
| Published online | 07 March 2025 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202532000001
Time Alignment of the CMS Hadron Calorimeter
1 Princeton University
2 University of Minnesota
3 Baylor University
4 University of Maryland
* e-mail: gillian.baron.kopp@cern.ch
Published online: 7 March 2025
The Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL) in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was recently upgraded for Run 3 (2022-2025) to introduce depth segmentation and online timing measurements. With increased segmentation and readout channels, the HCAL provides new timing capabilities for jets and hadronic tau decays with nearly 4π coverage and sensitivity to highly displaced decays within the calorimeter volume. Recent HCAL timing scans provide a valuable look at artificially delayed jets in collision data and are crucial to improving the detector’s performance. Online timing is utilized for detector alignment based on positioning the pulse rising edge, achieving an alignment accuracy of 0.5 ns, considerably higher than previous energy-weighting based approaches. Using precision arrival time measurements, significant advances have been made in understanding the propagation of hadronic showers throughout the calorimeter.
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