Quartz plate calorimeter prototype with wavelength shifting fibers

The quartz plate calorimeters are considered as hadronic calorimeter options for upgrading Large Hadron Collider experiments. Previous studies have shown that quartz can resist up to 12 MGy of proton irradiation. Using uniformly distributed wavelength shifting fibers embedded the quartz plates are shown to solve the problem of low visible light production on Cherenkov process. Here, we report the performance tests of a 20-layer quartz plate calorimeter prototype, which is constructed with this approach. The calorimeter prototype was tested at CERN H2 area in hadronic and electromagnetic configuration, at various energies of pion and electron beams. We report the beam test and simulation results of this prototype, we also discuss future improvement directions on manufacturing radiation hard wavelength shifting fibers for this type of hadronic calorimeter design.