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Summary
The ATLAS Pixel Detector was connected to the electrical and cooling services and off-detector readout electronics in March 2008.
All connections were certified before the detector was closed.
Prior to the operation with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) beam,
all the necessary tunings of the pixel detector have been performed
and the detector itself has been fully qualified. The detector has been successfully integrated into the ATLAS Trigger and DAQ system
allowing data-taking with high efficiency synchronously with other
sub-detectors.
The detector functionality checks have been performed starting from the early production phase. For this purpose, dedicated calibration techniques have been
implemented. These techniqueshave been developed with each detector assembly stage, matching the demands of the real detector services and readout system.
Additional calibration procedure, related to the operation in ATLAS, have been introduced.
The characterization aims for stable operation of the detector and
provides input for the offline analysis to guarantee high quality of the reconstructed data. Important detector characterization issues are:
-tuning of optical links - to have reliable connections between the detector and readout electronics and to adjust fine detector timing;
-threshold tuning - to have a uniform predefined threshold for all detector channels;
\item ToT~\footnote{Time over Threshold, the number of LHC clock cycles
detector signal stays above threshold, which is proportional to the signal
amplitude.} tuning - to have a uniform detector response upon detection of
the same deposited charge for all detector channels ;
-bump connectivity check - to check for unconnected channels;
-ToT calibration - to calibrate detector response to input chrge;
-noise occupancy check - to verify low-noise performance and spot noisy channels;
-timewalk check - to study timing behaviour of detector channels;
-sensor check - to study charge collection efficiency and detector leakage current.
Previous experience with detector characterization so far has been limited
to parts of the detector. For cobined operation with test beam, only a few modules were used, whereas one whole endcal (~10\% of the detector)
was tested stan-alone under real operating conditions with cosmic
muons. In contrast, the results shown in this presentation
give a summary of qualification tests for the whole detector in situ.
In addition, analysis of special data-taking runs with pseudo-random triggers
to verify noise occupancy, as well as the outcome of combined runs with cosmic muons will be presented.
