Operational experience of the ATLAS pixel detector

The ATLAS Pixel Detector is situated in the heart of the ATLAS apparatus operating at the Large Hadron Collider. It was commissioned at the end of 2008 and since the start of the experimental run in March 2010 the detector is successfully participating in the reconstruction of tracks, vertices and t...

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Published inJournal of instrumentation Vol. 6; no. 12; pp. 1 - 6
Main Author Marcisovsky, M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.12.2011
Subjects
Clusters
Collisions
Detectors
Instrumentation
Large Hadron Collider
Pixels
Running
Temperature dependence
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Summary:The ATLAS Pixel Detector is situated in the heart of the ATLAS apparatus operating at the Large Hadron Collider. It was commissioned at the end of 2008 and since the start of the experimental run in March 2010 the detector is successfully participating in the reconstruction of tracks, vertices and tagging of short-lived particles. The fast readout and the hit identification are among the major challenges. The detector should be able to distinguish between hits in subsequent bunch crossings with a time interval 25 ns. After more than one year of LHC running at high luminosity, more than 2fb super(-1) of collisions were recorded and significant operational experience was acquired. The Lorentz angle was determined as well as its temperature dependence. The particle ionization energy loss was extracted from the track clusters by means of a time-over-threshold method. Pixel cluster width in the direction of beam is studied in order to determine the collisions background.
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ISSN:1748-0221
1748-0221
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/6/12/C12001