A combined photon-hadron hodoscope calorimeter

Abstract The energy and spatial resolution and other characteristics of a combined detector permitting simultaneous detection of a large number of photons and hadrons has been studied in a 200 GeV/ c hadron beam at the CERN SPS. The detector consists of the GAMS-4000 spectrometer (4096 lead-glass cells) and a modular hadron calorimeter MHC-200 located behind it (240 total-absorption sandwich counters). A new method for adding the signals from the two calorimeters, which takes into account the difference in the development of hadron showers in photon and hadron calorimeters, has been developed. It permits substantial improvement of the energy resolution of the combined detector. The hadron coordinates are defined with a precision of several millimeters and the energy resolution is typical for steel-scintillator sandwiches with a wavelength-shifter readout. The effect of the gap between the photon and the hadron calorimeters has also been studied.