Published May 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Results from the commissioning of the ATLAS Pixel Detector with cosmic ray data

Creators

  • 1. Fachbereich Physik, Universitaet Siegen, D-57068 Siegen (Germany)

Description

The ATLAS Pixel Detector is one of the largest silicon pixel hybrid detectors in the world. It has a total active area of 1.7 m2 of silicon read out every 25 ns by approximately 80 million electronic channels. It is the innermost tracking detector of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, designed to measure particle tracks and decay vertices with a very high precision and efficiency. Since August 2008, after more than 10 years of development and construction, the whole detector has been operated together. After tuning, calibration and timing-in the detector has demonstrated excellent noise occupancy of 10-10 and a tracking hit efficiency greater than 99.7%. The paper will describe the detector performance and discuss the studies performed with cosmic ray data, such as alignment and the Lorentz angle measurement.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.172

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.172;
PII
S0168-9002(10)01362-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
633
Journal Issue
Suppl.1
Journal Page Range
p. S220-S223
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
11. international workshop on radiation imaging detectors
Acronym
IWORID
Dates
28 Jun - 2 Jul 2009
Place
Prague (Czech Republic)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43053969
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; ALIGNMENT; CALIBRATION; CERN; CERN LHC; COMMISSIONING; COSMIC RADIATION; EFFICIENCY; PARTICLE TRACKS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SI SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS

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