Description
The negative hadronic calorimeter (nHCal) for ePIC is a steel-scintillator4
sampling hadronic calorimeter under development, to be located in the electron-5
going direction. This calorimeter is needed to measure and distinguish charged6
and neutral hadronic showers coming from jets originating from fragmentation7
of small-x partons. The planned design type is a sandwich calorimeter with8
alternating layers of non-magnetic steel and plastic scintillator with wavelength-9
shifting fibers. The light readout will be provided by Silicon Photomultipliers. It10
will cover the pseudorapidity range −4.14 < η < −1.18. A performance study of11
negative Hcal is in progress for geometry, material, and energy resolution based12
on the existing simulation framework for high-energy experiments. We report13
ongoing Monte-Carlo studies of these properties of the calorimeter
