ATLAS SemiConductor Tracker: Operation and performance

Author

Moreno Llacer, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Fis. Corpuscular (IFIC), Univ. of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1071

Lastpage

1075

Abstract

The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) is a silicon strip detector and one of the key precision tracking devices in the Inner Detector of the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment at CERN. The SCT installation in the ATLAS experimental cavern was completed in 2007 and it has been operational since then. An extensive commissioning phase followed, during which calibration data was collected and the performance of the system was studied. The SCT was ready for the first LHC proton-proton collisions and it continues recording data successfully since then. In this paper, the current status, operation and performance of the SCT is reviewed, including results from data-taking periods in 2010 and 2011.

Keywords

position sensitive particle detectors; silicon radiation detectors; ATLAS experiment; ATLAS inner detector; ATLAS semiconductor tracker; LHC proton-proton collisions; SCT installation; extensive commissioning phase; precision tracking devices; silicon strip detector; toroidal LHC apparatus; Heating; Synchronization; ATLAS; Silicon microstrips; noise; radiation damage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0118-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6154575

Filename

6154575