8–13 Aug 2011
Rhode Island Convention Center
US/Eastern timezone

Calibration and Performance of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

10 Aug 2011, 17:45
15m
556 (Rhode Island Convention Center)

556

Rhode Island Convention Center

Parallel contribution Detector Technology and R&D Detector Technology and R&D

Speaker

Dr Edward Diehl (University of Michigan)

Description

The ATLAS muon spectrometer is designed to measure muon momenta with a resolution of 4% @ 100 GeV/c rising to 10% @ 1 TeV/c track momentum. The spectrometer consists of precision tracking and trigger chambers embedded in a 2T magnetic field generated by three large air-core superconducting toroids. The precision detectors provide 50 micron tracking resolution to a pseudo-rapidity of 2.7. The system also includes an optical monitoring system which measures detector positions with 40 micron precision. I will report on the calibration and performance of the ATLAS muon spectrometer in the first year of LHC data.

Primary author

Dr Edward Diehl (University of Michigan)

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