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The first LHC pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 0.9 and 2.36 TeV were recorded by the CMS detector in December 2009. The trajectories of charged particles produced in the collisions were reconstructed using the all-silicon Tracker…

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This paper discusses the design and performance of the time measurement technique and of the synchronization systems of the CMS hadron calorimeter. Time measurement performance results are presented from test beam data taken in the years…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 CMS Collaboration

A tracking detector system has been constructed with an innovative approach to the classical multi-wire proportional chamber concept, using contemporary technologies. The detectors, covering an area of 0.58 square meters each, are optimized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-30 Dezső Varga , Gábor Nyitrai , Gergő Hamar , László Oláh

Small-diameter muon drift tube (sMDT) chambers are a cost-effective technology for high-precision muon tracking. The rate capability of the sMDT chambers has been extensively tested at the Gamma Irradiation Facility at CERN in view of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-15 Oliver Kortner , Hubert Kroha , Felix Müller , Sebastian Nowak , Robert Richter

The ATLAS muon spectrometer consists of several major components: Monitored Drift Tubes (MDTs) for precision measurements in the bending plane of the muons, supplemented by Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) in the high eta region; Resistive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 E. Diehl

As the start up date for LHC approaches, the detectors are readying for data taking. Here a review will be given on the construction phase with insights into the various difficulties encountered during the process. An overview will also be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-08-17 Giacomo Sguazzoni

The CMS experiment uses self-triggering arrays of drift tubes in the barrel muon trigger to perform the identification of the correct bunch crossing. The identification is unique only if the trigger chain is correctly synchronized. In this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 CMS Collaboration

The resolution and efficiency of a precision drift-tube chamber for the ATLAS muon spectrometer with final read-out electronics was tested at the Gamma Irradiation Facility at CERN in a 100 GeV muon beam and at photon irradiation rates of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-06 M. Deile , J. Dubbert , S. Horvat , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , A. Manz , S. Mohrdieck-Moeck , F. Rauscher , R. Richter , A. Staude , W. Stiller

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general purpose detector, designed to run at the highest luminosity at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its distinctive features include a 4 T superconducting solenoid with 6-m-diameter by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-02 V. I. Klyukhin , N. Amapane , A. Ball , B. Curé , A. Gaddi , H. Gerwig , M. Mulders , V. Calvelli , A. Hervé , R. Loveless

We report the timing and spatial resolution from the Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) installed in the STAR experiment at RHIC. Cosmic ray muons traversing the STAR detector have an average transverse momentum of 6 GeV/c. Due to their very…

The Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) muon subsystem contributes significantly to the formation of the trigger decision and reconstruction of the muon trajectory parameters. Simulation of the RPC response is a crucial part of the entire CMS…

A set of classical multi-wire proportional chambers were designed and constructed with the main purpose of efficient cosmic muon detection. These detectors are relatively simple to construct, and at the same time are low cost, making them…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-30 Dezső Varga , Zoltán Gál , Gergő Hamar , Janka Sára Molnár , Éva Oláh , Péter Pázmándi

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector designed to run at the highest luminosity at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its distinctive featuresinclude a 4 T superconducting solenoid with 6 m diameter by 12.5 m long…

We present results from two test beam campaigns that investigate the performance of straw tube detectors as potential candidates for an FCC-ee straw tracker. These studies were carried out at CERN using 150 GeV muon beams. Dedicated…

During the scheduled high luminosity upgrade of LHC, the world's largest particle physics accelerator at CERN, the position sensitive silicon detectors installed in the vertex and tracking part of the CMS experiment will face more intense…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-21 T. Peltola

With the increases in the LHC instantaneous luminosity, maintaining effective triggering and avoiding dead time will become especially challenging. As the sensitivity of many physics studies, depends critically on the ability to maintain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-09 A. Castaneda

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is one of two general-purpose detectors that measure the products of high energy particle interactions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The silicon pixel detector is the innermost…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-03 Tamas Almos Vami , Viktor Veszpremi , the CMS Collaboration

Triple-GEM detectors for the GE2/1 and ME0 stations of the endcap muon system for the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS Experiment have been operated in a test beam to measure their efficiency and spatial resolution, together with a high spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-23 Antonello Pellecchia , Piet Verwilligen , Anna Stamerra

A new kind of Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) has been built for the large-area Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) for the STAR experiment at RHIC. These long read-out strip MRPCs (LMRPCs) have an active area of 87.0 x 17.0 cm2 and ten…

In order to test the performance of detector/prototype in environment of laboratory, we design and build a larger area ($90\times52$ $cm^2$) test platform of cosmic ray based on well-designed Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) with an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-16 Tianxiang Chen , Cheng Li , Yongjie Sun , Hongfang Chen , Ming Shao , Zebo Tang , Rongxing Yang , Yi Zhou , Yifei Zhang