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The FASER experiment is a new small and inexpensive experiment that is placed 480 meters downstream of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC. FASER is designed to capture decays of new long-lived particles, produced outside of the ATLAS…

The outer shell of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC consists of a system of toroidal air-core magnets in order to allow for the precise measurement of the transverse momentum p$_T$ of muons, which in many physics channels are a signature of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-01-27 Jörg Dubbert , Sandra Horvat , Oliver Kortner , Hubert Kroha , Robert Richter

The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 S. Abovyan , V. Danielyan , M. Fras , P. Gadow , O. Kortner , S. Kortner , H. Kroha , F. Mueller , S. Nowak , R. Richter , K. Schmidt-Sommerfeld

The ATLAS Trigger system is a key component of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), designed to reduce the event rate from the 40 MHz proton-proton bunch crossing frequency to an output suitable for offline storage…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-17 Leonardo Toffolin

ATLAS muon detector upgrades aim for increased acceptance for muon triggering and precision tracking and for improved rate capability of the muon chambers in the high-background regions of the detector with increasing LHC luminosity. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 Hubert Kroha , Oliver Kortner , Korbinian Schmidt-Sommerfeld , Eric Takasugi

The innermost station of the present ATLAS forward muon detector needs to be upgraded for the super-LHC. We present a proposal to replace it with a sandwiched detector composed of several layers of small-radius Monitored Drift Tube chambers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-10-26 Junjie Zhu

The CMS muon system operates gas-based detectors. Upgrades of the detectors and trigger components are needed to cope with increasingly challenging conditions of the HL-LHC. New irradiation tests are performed to ensure that the muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-07 Jian Wang

Large-scale computing in ATLAS is based on a grid-linked system of tiered computing centers. The ATLAS Great Lakes Tier-2 came online in September 2006 and now is commissioning with full capacity to provide significant computing power and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-16 Shawn McKee

Experiments like ATLAS at the HL-LHC or detectors at future hadron colliders need muon detectors with excellent momentum resolution up to the TeV scale both at the trigger and offline reconstruction levels. This requires muon tracking…

The new simulation for the ATLAS detector at LHC is performed using Geant4 in a complete OO/C++ environment. In this framework the simulation of the various test beams for the different ATLAS subdetectors offers an excellent opportunity to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Dell'Acqua

A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed for the upgrade of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN) so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-17 Saikat Biswas

The ALICE muon spectrometer studies the production of quarkonia and open heavy- flavour particles. It is equipped with a Trigger System composed of Resistive Plate Chambers which, by applying a transverse-momentum-based muon selection,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-22 Gabriele Gaetano Fronzé

In this work we describe a parallel geometry gaseous detector constituted by a thin (0.6 mm) amplifying gap preceded by a drift region. The gap is delimited by a metal plate and by a wire mesh. The detector can count up to a rate of 10^7…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Fonte , R. Ferreira-Marques , Y. Ivaniouchenkov , V. Peskov , A. Policarpo

The goals of the ongoing and planned ATLAS muon detector upgrades are to increase the acceptance for precision muon momentum measurement and triggering and to improve the rate capability of the muon chambers in the high-background regions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 Hubert Kroha , Oliver Kortner , Korbinian Schmidt-Sommerfeld , Eric Takasugi

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will face the challenge of efficiently selecting interesting candidate events in $pp$ collisions at 14 TeV centre-of-mass energy, whilst rejecting the enormous number of background…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-10-21 Tomasz Bold , for Atlas Tdaq

The T2K near-detector, ND280, employs three large argon gas TPCs (Time Projection Chambers) for particle tracking and identification. The gas inside the TPCs can be used as an active target to study the neutrino interactions in great…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-11 Lukas Koch

A large number of high-energy and heavy-ion experiments successfully used Time Projection Chamber (TPC) as central tracker and particle identification detector. However, the performance requirements on TPC for new high-rate particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-02-14 M. Poli Lener , M. Bazzi , G. Corradi , C. Curceanu , A. D'Uffizi , C. Paglia , A. Romero Vidal , E. Sbardella , A. Scordo , D. Tagnani , J. Zmeskal

During LHC Run 2 (2015-2018) the ATLAS Level-1 topological trigger allowed efficient data-taking by the ATLAS experiment at luminosities up to 2.1x10$^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, which exceeds the design value by a factor of two. The system…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-01-14 ATLAS Collaboration

The Relational Database Aspects of Argonnes ATLAS Control System Argonnes ATLAS (Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System) control system comprises two separate database concepts. The first is the distributed real-time database structure…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 D. E. R. Quock , F. H. Munson , K. J. Eder , S. L. Dean

Resistive Plate Chambers are used in the ATLAS experiment for the muon trigger and two coordinate measurements in the central region. In preparation for the coming years of LHC running at higher luminosity, besides the New Small Wheel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-30 Lorenzo Massa