@article{3196890, title = "Study of energy response and resolution of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter to hadrons of energies from 16 to 30 GeV", author = "Abdallah, Jalal and Angelidakis, Stylianos and Arabidze, Giorgi and and Atanov, Nikolay and Bernhard, Johannes and Bonnefoy, Romeo and Bossio, and Jonathan and Bouabid, Ryan and Carrio, Fernando and Davidek, Tomas and and Dubovsky, Michal and Fiorini, Luca and Garcia Aparisi, Francisco Brandan and and Carli, Tancredi and Gerbershagen, Alexander and Goksu, Hazal and and Hadavand, Haleh and Harkusha, Siarhei and Hlaluku, Dingane and Hibbard, and Michael James and Hildebrand, Kevin and Hrynevich, Aliaksei and and Jejelava, Juansher and Kamenshchikov, Andrey and Kazakos, Stergios and and Kello, Tomas and Korolkov, Ilya and Kulchitsky, Yuri and Lazar, Hadar and and Lekalakala, Nthabiseng and Little, Jared and Madar, Romain and and Manen, Samuel and Martins, Filipe and Masuku, Thabo and Minashvili, and Irakli and Mkrtchyan, Tigran and Mlynarikova, Michaela and Moayedi, and Seyedali and Nemecek, Stanislav and Nodulman, Lawrence and Oganezov, and Robert and Robert Olsson, Mats Joakim and Oreglia, Mark and Pani, and Priscilla and Paramonov, Alexander and Pottgen, Ruth and Reid, Tres and and Rodriguez Bosca, Sergi and Rodriguez Perez, Andrea and Christine Rosten, and Rachel and Saha, Puja and Santoni, Claudio and Sargsyan, Laura and and Michael Schaefer, Douglas and Shalanda, Nikolay and Smith, Andrew Caldon and and Solodkov, Alexander and Solovyanov, Oleg and Starovoitov, Pavel and and Starchenko, Evgeny and Tas, Petr and Tereshchenko, Viacheslav and and Humphry Tlou, Sijiye and Ughetto, Michael and Uhliarova, Lea and Usai, and Giulio and Valdes Santurio, Eduardo and Valero Biot, Alberto and Volpi, and Guido and Zakareishvili, Tamar and Diego Zuccarello, Pedro", journal = "The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields", year = "2021", volume = "81", number = "6", publisher = "Springer-Verlag", issn = "1434-6044, 1434-6052", doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09292-5", abstract = "Three spare modules of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter were exposed to test beams from the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN in 2017. The detector's measurements of the energy response and resolution to positive pions and kaons, and protons with energies ranging from 16 to 30 GeV are reported. The results have uncertainties of a few percent. They were compared to the predictions of the Geant4-based simulation program used in ATLAS to estimate the response of the detector to proton-proton events at the Large Hadron Collider. The determinations obtained using experimental and simulated data agree within the uncertainties." }