The Hadron Calorimeter of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) (Proceedings to be published Nuclear Physics B)

The Hadron Calorimeter of CMS is about 1,000 tons of copper and scintillator sandwich in a 4 tesla magnetic field. It will be built in three segments, the barrel surrounding the central portion and the two end caps. The scintillators will use a tower structure made of grooved megatiles with wavelength shifting ( WLS) fibers imbedded inside the grooves. The coverage extends to "eta" = 3.0 and is hermetic with very few gaps. The 1995 test beam data, taken inside a 3 tesla magnet, showed that it will work in a magnetic field and will require a tail catcher inside the muon system.