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The Pixel Detector of the ATLAS experiment has shown excellent performance during the whole Run-1 of LHC. Taking advantage of the long shutdown, the detector was extracted from the experiment and brought to surface, to equip it with new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-21 Alessandro La Rosa

The Inner Tracker of the LHCb experiment is a silicon microstrip detector consisting of 336 detector modules with either one or two sensors. The module production is now underway and we present here the setup employed for module testing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-29 P. Vazquez Regueiro , D. Esperante Pereira , H. Voss , L. Nicolas

The ATLAS tile calorimeter (TileCal) is the hadronic sampling calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This paper gives an overview of the calorimeter's operation and performance…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-13 ATLAS Collaboration

In this review I sketch the basic criteria and boundary conditions which have guided the design of the LHC detectors. The discussion will concentrate on the so-called general-purpose experiments, ATLAS and CMS. After an overview of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-03-12 Guenther Dissertori

Measurements of the top quark production cross section in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider are presented. The measurements require no, one or two electrons or muons in the final state (single…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-10-27 John David Morris

The GLD is a detector for the experiment at the International Linear Collider (ILC). It consists of a large calorimeter and a gaseous central tracker placed in a moderate magnetic field, both electro-magnetic and hadron calorimeters being…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 GLD Concept Study Group

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) is the detector of the ALICE central barrel located closest to the beam axis and it is therefore a key detector for tracking and vertexing performance. Here, the main results from the ITS commissioning with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Francesco Prino

The alignment of tracking detectors is crucial for the physics programme at the LHC, especially for precision measurements like the W mass. The alignment of the ATLAS silicon tracking detectors with a total of 5832 modules poses an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-08-05 Oleg Brandt

Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are amongst the most sensitive cryogenic detectors and can be easily optimized for the detection of massive particles or photons ranging from X-rays all the way down to millimetre radiation. Furthermore, TESs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-05 Mario De Lucia , Paolo Dal Bo , Eugenia Di Giorgi , Tommaso Lari , Claudio Puglia , Federico Paolucci

The Transition Radiation Detector of the AMS-02 experiment on the International Space Station is used for the separation of cosmic-ray positrons and electrons from protons and anti-protons, and for the identification of nuclei up to carbon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-11 Tomi Räihä , Andreas Bachlechner , Bastian Beischer , Chan Hoon Chung , Henning Gast , Stefan Schael , Thorsten Siedenburg

The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is a sampling hadronic calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS experiment. TileCal uses steel as absorber and plastic scintillators as active medium. The scintillators are read-out by the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-20 Merve Nazlim Agaras

Following the Phase-II upgrade during Long Shutdown (LS3), the LHC aims to reach a peak instantaneous luminosity of $7.5\times 10^{34}$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, which corresponds to an average of around 200 inelastic proton-proton collisions per…

The microphysics of electron and photon propagation in liquid argon is a key component of detector design and calibrations needed to construct and perform measurements within a wide range of particle physics experiments. As experiments grow…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-08 Zach Beever , David Caratelli , Angela Fava , Francesco Pietropaolo , Francesca Stocker , Jacob Zettlemoyer

In this paper we present a new measurement setup, where a transitionedge sensor detector array is used to detect X-rays in particle induced X-ray emission measurements with a 2 MeV proton beam. Transition-edge sensors offer orders of…

Physics collisions at 13 TeV are expected at the LHC with an average of 40-50 proton-proton collisions per bunch crossing under nominal conditions. Tracking at trigger level is an essential tool to control the rate in high-pileup conditions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Johanna Gramling

A multi-messenger, space-based cosmic ray detector for gamma rays and charged particles poses several design challenges due to the different instrumental requirements for the two kind of particles. Gamma-ray detection requires layers of…

The Tile hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS detector has undergone extensive testing in the experimental hall since its installation in late 2005. The readout, control and calibration systems have been fully operational since 2007 and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 The ATLAS Collaboration

This paper describes the integration structures for the silicon strips tracker of the ATLAS detector proposed for the Phase-II upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), also referred to as High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). In this proposed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-02 Sergio Diez

The ATLAS detector is intended to verify the standard model and to search for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC, CERN). In addition to this primary goal, it also allows detection of muons of cosmic rays. On the other hand,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-19 S. N. Karpov , Z. M. Karpova , V. A. Bednyakov

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC employs comprehensive data quality monitoring procedures to ensure high-quality physics data. This contribution presents a long short-term memory autoencoder-based algorithm for detecting anomalies in ATLAS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-09 Vilius Čepaitis