Scintillating fibre calorimetry at the LHC

The aim of this proposal is to develop an integrated e.m.-hadronic calorimeter having an optimal combination of parameters essential for LHC detectors, such as speed, compensation, energy resolution, granularity and hermeticity. This work will be based on the lead-scintillating fibre technique already developed and extensively tested by the SPACAL Collaboration. The proposal covers the construction and tests of a large-scale projective prototype, as well as parallel investigations in the related fields of high dynamic range photodetectors, front-end electronics, triggering, data acquisition, radiation damage and overall system design of a calorimetric detector.