A hadronic calorimeter based on resistive micropattern gaseous detectors($^\ast$)

Precise energy measurements will be crucial at future Higgs factories to reliably identify hadronic decays of W, Z, and Higgs bosons. Achieving this requires the use of the Particle Flow Algorithm (PFA), which relies on calorimeters with fine-granularity readouts. In response, a novel hadronic calorimeter (HCAL) has been designed using resistive Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) as active medium. MPGDs combine excellent spatial and timing resolution, radiation hardness, and fine-granularity readouts, making them well-suited for next-generation collider experiments, optimized for PFA. This contribution reports on performance studies of MPGD prototypes at CERN SPS, focusing on efficiency and time resolution, along with energy response measurements of an HCAL cell prototype tested with pion beams at CERN PS.