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2008 (English)In: Journal of Instrumentation, E-ISSN 1748-0221, Vol. 3, p. S08003-Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The ATLAS detector as installed in its experimental cavern at point 1 at CERN is described in this paper. A brief overview of the expected performance of the detector when the Large Hadron Collider begins operation is also presented.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2008. Vol. 3, p. S08003-
Keywords [en]
ATLAS, LHC, CERN, Accelerator, Proton-proton collisions, Heavy-ion collisions, Minimum-bias events, Bunch-crossings, Pile-up, Superconducting magnets, Solenoidal field, Toroidal field, Magnetic field measurements, Hall probes, Inner detector, Charged-particle tracking, Vertex measurement, Pixel detectors, Silicon micro-strip detectors, Transition radiation, Time-over-threshold, Radiation-hard electronics, Fluorinert cooling, Carbon-fibre reinforced plastics, Optical fibres, Calorimetry, Sampling calorimeters, Liquid argon, Scintillator tiles, Electromagnetic and hadronic interactions, Forward calorimetry, Accordion geometry, Lateral segmentation, Longitudinal segmentation, Muon spectrometer, Precision-tracking chambers, Trigger chambers, Drift tubes, Thin-gap chambers, Resistive-plate chambers, Optical alignment systems, Forward detectors, Cerenkov light, Roman Pots, Zero-degree calorimetry, Trigger and data acquisition, High-level trigger, Event filter, Detector control system, Bandwidth, Processor farm, Electrons, Muons, Leptons, Photons, Jets, Taus, Missing transverse energy, b-tagging, Particle identification, Tracking algorithms, Vertexing algorithms, Impact parameter measurements
National Category
Physical Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-87713DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08003ISI: 000258875900010OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-87713DiVA, id: diva2:133323
Projects
ATLAS collaboration2009-01-082009-01-082024-03-08Bibliographically approved