2014 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2014

Testing of new ATLAS muon detectors at Fermilab's Test Beam Facility

18 Jun 2014, 19:08

2m

W-132 (Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne)

Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant) Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD) PPD Poster Session, with beer (7) / Session d'affiches PPD, avec bière (7)

Speaker

Stephen Albert Weber (Carleton University (CA))

Description

One of the ATLAS experiment's upgrade to take place in 2018 consists in the construction of new muon chambers. A third of these gaseous detectors (so-called "thin gap chambers") will be built and tested in Canada. The performance of the first prototype chamber built in Canada was measured in a beam test at Fermilab in May 2014. A description of the test setup at Fermilab as well as preliminary results will be presented.