Production and test of monitored drift tubes for the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS experiment

Author

Aprile, A. ; Avolio, G. ; Campagna, A. ; Capua, M. ; Cuce, D. ; Ferraro, E. ; Lamanna, E. ; La Rotonda, L. ; Meoni, E. ; Pellegrino, F. ; Romano, V. ; Schioppa, M. ; Susinno, G. ; Turco, P. ; Vena, R.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Fisica, Universita´´ della Calabria, Rende, Italy

Volume

49

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1077

Lastpage

1079

Abstract

ATLAS is one of the two general-purpose experiments being built for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Its muon spectrometer consists of very high-precision chambers made of drift tubes. Up to now, more than 5000 monitored drift tubes (MDTs) have been constructed and tested at the University of Calabria, Italy, for ATLAS barrel system chambers of the muon detector. This paper reports the critical MDT assembly techniques in detail, including the automatic electronics system and data acquisition system. The extensive tests performed on individual drift tubes and the first results and experience are also reported.

Keywords

data acquisition; drift chambers; muon detection; nuclear electronics; particle spectrometers; physical instrumentation control; position sensitive particle detectors; readout electronics; ATLAS barrel system chambers; ATLAS experiment; CERN; LHC; Large Hadron Collider; MDT; MDT assembly techniques; automatic electronics system; data acquisition system; drift tubes; high-precision chambers; monitored drift tubes; muon spectrometer; particle detector; Assembly systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Large Hadron Collider; Mesons; Monitoring; Performance evaluation; Production; Spectroscopy; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2002.1039617

Filename

1039617