The ATLAS Inner Detector commissioning and calibration
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ATLAS Collaboration; Taylor, Frank E
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The ATLAS Inner Detector is a composite tracking system consisting of silicon pixels, silicon strips and straw tubes in a 2 T magnetic field. Its installation was completed in August 2008 and the detector took part in data-taking with single LHC beams and cosmic rays. The initial detector operation, hardware commissioning and in-situ calibrations are described. Tracking performance has been measured with 7. 6 million cosmic-ray events, collected using a tracking trigger and reconstructed with modular pattern-recognition and fitting software. The intrinsic hit efficiency and tracking trigger efficiencies are close to 100%. Lorentz angle measurements for both electrons and holes, specific energy-loss calibration and transition radiation turn-on measurements have been performed. Different alignment techniques have been used to reconstruct the detector geometry. After the initial alignment, a transverse impact parameter resolution of 22. 1±0. 9 μm and a relative momentum resolution σ p /p=(4. 83±0. 16)×10⁻⁴ GeV⁻¹ ×p[subscript T] have been measured for high momentum tracks.
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2010-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
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Springer-Verlag
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Aad, G. et al. “The ATLAS Inner Detector Commissioning and Calibration.” The European Physical Journal C 70, 3 (August 2010): 787–821 © 2010 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
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1434-6044
1434-6052