An important new ILC calorimeter research program was installed in the the Fermilab Meson Test Beam Facility on April 15, 2008. It is the largest detector and test beam program run at the Meson Test Beam Facility to date. The user for this project is the CALICE collaboration, an international ILC detector R&D group that will employ numerous methods of read out for electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetery. As the program moves forward over the next year, various new detector technologies will be swapped into place and tested.
The installation of the CALICE test beam calorimeter marks the continuation of a program that is truly international. Testing of this detector has taken place at CERN and at DESY and components are coming from KEK in Japan.
The Meson Test Beam Facility is a versatile beamline where users can test equipment or detectors in a beam of different particle types in a wide energy range (1-120 GeV) at suitable intensities. It is ideal for the ILC Detector test beam program.
The principle architect of the infrastructure being installed, and the hadron calorimeter project leader, is Felix Sefkow from DESY, and he comments in this video on this important milestone.
httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=oHgKLBldfvQ
