Study of the performance of a semi-digital hadronic calorimeter using Monte Carlo techniques

The Particle Flow Algorithm is one of the main concepts that will be used to measure the energies of hadronic jets at a future International Linear Collider. This method requires a highly granular hadronic calorimeter to measure the energy of jets with a good precision. The Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter using glass resistive plate chambers as sensitive medium is one of the hadronic calorimeters which is used in conjunction with the particle flow method. In this paper, the performance of Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter using glass resistive plate chambers as active elements has been studied by using the GEANT4 simulations. Its main operational characteristics such as mean response and energy resolution have been examined.