Special concentration will be on the flow of the data in the teststand, the control of the data, and the diagnostics of the teststand. This will also include both the hardware and software of the teststand. Lying in a section of this calorimeter is the shower maximum detector. The objective of this detector is to detect the maximum of the density in particle showers. Their function is to create a profile of particle showers.
Wire chambers make up the central portion of the detector.
When a charged particle enters into the wire chamber, gas in the chamber is ionized. The separated ions and electrons of a gas in an electric field produce a signal as they pile up at the wires. This is collected and used as data. Scintillator strips make up the plug portion of the detector. When a high energy particle enters onto the scintillator, atoms internal states are disrupted and photons are emitted.