Published August 11, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

System test of the ATLAS muon spectrometer in the H8 beam at the CERN SPS

  • 1. Universita della Calabria and INFN, Cosenza, p. Bucci, I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza) (Italy)
  • 2. Universita di Roma Tor Vergata and INFN, Roma 2, v. Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Roma (Italy)
  • 3. National Technical University Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-157, 80 Zografou (Greece)
  • 4. CERN, CH-1211 Geneve 23 (Switzerland)
  • 5. Michigan University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (United States)
  • 6. Universita di Roma La Sapienza and INFN, Roma, p.le Moro 2, I-00185 Roma (Italy)
  • 7. NIKHEF, Kruislaan 409, PO Box 41882, 1098 SJ Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • 8. INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, via Fermi, 40, I-00044 Frascati (Italy)
  • 9. Dapnia, CEA-Saclay, F-91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex (France)
  • 10. Tel Aviv University, PO Box 39040, Tel Aviv 69978 (Israel)
  • 11. Brandeis University, Mailstop 057, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454 (United States)
  • 12. Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Pobeda street 1, 142281 Protvino, Moscow Region (Russian Federation)
  • 13. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region (Russian Federation)
  • 14. Universita di Roma Tre and INFN, Roma Tre, via della Vasca Navale, 84, I-00146 Roma (Italy)

Description

We describe a system test of the ATLAS muon spectrometer performed at the H8 beam line of the CERN Super-Proton-Synchrotron (SPS) during 2003. The setup includes one barrel tower made of six Monitored Drift Tube chambers equipped with an alignment system and four Resistive Plate Chambers, and one end-cap octant consisting of six end-cap MDT equipped with an alignment system and one triplet and two doublets of Thin Gap Chambers. Many system aspects of the muon spectrometer have been studied with this setup, from the performance of the precision and trigger chambers to the capability to align the precision chambers at the level of a few tens of micrometers and to operate the muon trigger at the crossing frequency of the LHC

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2008.05.027

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2008.05.027;
arXiv
arXiv:physics/0509222v1;
PII
S0168-9002(08)00703-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
593
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 232-254
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

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Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.