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The Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers for the muon spectrometer of the AT- LAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consist of 3-4 layers of pressurized drift tubes on either side of a space frame carrying an optical monitoring…

For the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider (LHC), large drift chambers consisting of 6 to 8 layers of pressurized drift tubes are used for precision tracking covering an active area of 5000 m2 in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-04 M. Deile , H. Dietl , J. Dubbert , S. Horvat , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , A. Manz , S. Mohrdieck , F. Rauscher , R. Richter , A. Staude

The main results of the quality assurance tests performed on the Resistive Plate Chamber used by the ATLAS experiment at LHC as muon trigger chambers are reported and discussed. Since July 2004, about 270 RPC units has been certified at…

The ATLAS experiment will replace the present Small Wheel (SW) detector with a New Small Wheel detector (NSW) aiming to improve the performance of muon triggering and precision tracking in the endcap region at the High-Luminosity LHC.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-02 Xu Wang , Liang Guan , Siyuan Sun , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu , Ge Jin

The ATLAS muon spectrometer uses drift-tube chambers for precision tracking. The performance of these chambers in the presence of magnetic field and high radiation fluxes is studied in this article using test-beam data recorded in the Gamma…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-07 J. Dubbert , S. Horvat , F. Legger , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , R. Richter , Ch. Valderanis , F. Rauscher , A. Staude

This paper evaluates the radiation tolerance of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics components for use in the Thin Gap Chamber (TGC) frontend electronics of the ATLAS experiment at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The ATLAS…

The CMS experiment, located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN, has a redundant muon system composed by three different gaseous detector technologies: Cathode Strip Chambers (in the forward regions), Drift Tubes (in the central…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 M. A. Shah , R. Hadjiska

Following the Higgs particle discovery, the Large Hadron Collider complex will be upgraded in several phases allowing the luminosity to increase to $7 \times 10^{34}cm^{-2}s^{-1}$. In order to adapt the ATLAS detector to the higher…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-27 Xiao Zhao , Dengfeng Zhang , Wenlong Li , Changyu Li , Chengguang Zhu , Han Li , Shengquan Liu , Peng Miao , Yanyan Du , Yanyun Duan

Due to the huge interaction rates and the tough experimental environment of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy sqrt(s)=14TeV and luminosities of up to 10^34 cm^-2 s^-1, one of the experimental challenges at the LHC is the triggering…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Johannes Haller

Thin-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) with a 1 mm gap size are introduced in the Phase-II ATLAS upgrade. Smaller avalanche charge due to the reduced gap size raises concerns for signal integrity. This work focuses on the RPC signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-11 Zirui Liu , Xiangyu Xie , Pingxin Zhang , Chunhao Tian , Yongjie Sun

The High-Luminosity LHC will provide the unique opportunity to explore the nature of physics beyond the Standard Model of strong and electroweak interactions. Highly selective first level triggers are essential for the physics programme of…

The Level-1 Muon Barrel Trigger of the ATLAS Experiment at LHC makes use of Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) detectors. The on-detector trigger electronics modules are able to identify muons with predefined transverse momentum values (pT) by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 V. Izzo , A. Aloisio , R. Giordano , S. Perrella , R. Vari

The high-luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will result in ten times higher particle background than measured during the first phase of LHC operation. In order to fully exploit the highly-demanding operating conditions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-09 CMS Muon Group

The Phase II upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer will involve the installation of approximately 1000 next-generation Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) singlets. This upgrade aims to enhance detector coverage, increase hit efficiency, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-23 Aashaq Shah

Pressurized drift-tube chambers are efficient detectors for high-precision tracking over large areas. The Monitored Drift-Tube (MDT) chambers of the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reach a spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-04 B. Bittner , J. Dubbert , S. Horvat , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , F. Legger , R. Richter , S. Adomeit , O. Biebel , A. Engl , R. Hertenberger , F. Rauscher , A. Zibell

Muons from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere provide a high-statistics source of particles that can be used to study the performance and calibration of the ATLAS detector. Cosmic-ray muons can penetrate to the cavern and deposit…

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

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) employs a trigger system consisting of a first-level hardware trigger (L1) and a software-based high-level trigger. The L1 muon trigger system selects muon candidates, assigns them to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-30 ATLAS Collaboration

Gaseous detectors have long been used by particle physics experiments at beamlines or standalone experiments. Recently, their low momentum threshold has made them interesting as active targets for long baseline neutrino experiments. To…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-13 Philip Hamacher-Baumann

The muon detection system of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider is based on different technologies for muon tracking and triggering. In particular, the muon system in the endcap disks of the detector…

In this work, we present a new approach for fast tracking on multiwire proportional chambers with neural networks. The tracking networks are developed and adapted for the first-level trigger at hadron collider experiments. We use Monte…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-17 Chang Sun , Takumi Nakajima , Yuki Mitsumori , Yasuyuki Horii , Makoto Tomoto