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T1 - Commissioning of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer with cosmic rays
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Eva
AU - Catmore, James
AU - Cheatham, Sue
AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre
AU - Davidson, Ruth
AU - de Mora, Lee
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Henderson, Robert
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin
AU - Love, Peter
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Walder, James
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider has collected several hundred million cosmic ray events during 2008 and 2009. These data were used to commission the Muon Spectrometer and to study the performance of the trigger and tracking chambers, their alignment, the detector control system, the data acquisition and the analysis programs. We present the performance in the relevant parameters that determine the quality of the muon measurement. We discuss the single element efficiency, resolution and noise rates, the calibration method of the detector response and of the alignment system, the track reconstruction efficiency and the momentum measurement. The results show that the detector is close to the design performance and that the Muon Spectrometer is ready to detect muons produced in high energy proton-proton collisions.
AB - The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider has collected several hundred million cosmic ray events during 2008 and 2009. These data were used to commission the Muon Spectrometer and to study the performance of the trigger and tracking chambers, their alignment, the detector control system, the data acquisition and the analysis programs. We present the performance in the relevant parameters that determine the quality of the muon measurement. We discuss the single element efficiency, resolution and noise rates, the calibration method of the detector response and of the alignment system, the track reconstruction efficiency and the momentum measurement. The results show that the detector is close to the design performance and that the Muon Spectrometer is ready to detect muons produced in high energy proton-proton collisions.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1415-2
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1415-2
M3 - Journal article
VL - 70
SP - 875
EP - 916
JO - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
JF - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
SN - 1434-6044
IS - 3
ER -