11–16 Dec 2008
Valencia, Spain
Europe/Madrid timezone

Commissioning of the ATLAS detector with cosmic rays and first LHC beams

13 Dec 2008, 16:35
20m
Valencia, Spain

Valencia, Spain

IFIC – Instituto de Física Corpuscular CSIC – Valencia Univ. Edificio Institutos de Investigación Apartado de Correos 22085 E-46071 Valencia SPAIN

Speaker

Dr Maria Jose Costa (IFIC)

Description

Looking towards first LHC collisions, the ATLAS detector is being commissioned using all types of physics data available: cosmic rays and events produced during a few days of LHC single beam operations. In addition to putting in place the trigger and data acquisition chains, commissioning of the full software chain is a main goal. This is interesting not only to ensure that the reconstruction, monitoring and simulation chains are ready to deal with LHC physics data, but also to understand the detector performance in view of achieving the physics requirements. The status of the integration of the complete software chain will be presented as well as the data analysis results.

Author

Dr Maria Jose Costa (IFIC)

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