Speaker
Dr
Dorian Kcira
(University of Louvain)
Description
With a total area of more than 200 square meters and about 16000 silicon detectors
the Tracker of the CMS experiment will be the largest silicon detector ever built.
The CMS silicon Tracker will detect charged tracks and will play a determinant role
in lepton reconstruction and heavy flavour quark tagging.
A general overview of the Tracker data handling software, which allows the detector
to be configured, calibrated, monitored and its data to be analysed by means of
distributed computing resources and databases is given. Results of the Tracker
performance as obtained in the various setups where the Tracker is being commissioned
are also presented. A first functional version of the Tracker data handling software
was tested in the CMS Magnet Test Cosmic Challenge (MTCC). At the MTCC a small
fraction of all the CMS subdetectors was operated in the 4T solenoid of the
experiment. Cosmic rays were triggered by the muon detectors and all subdetectors
were readout with the global data acquisition system. The MTCC Tracker setup
represented about 1% of the final system.
A much larger fraction of the Tracker is currently being readout at the Tracker
Integration Facility (TIF) where large parts of the full Silicon Strip Detector are
already integrated. The data handling software in use at the TIF is close to final.
Summary
A general overview of the Tracker data handling software, which allows the detector
to be configured, calibrated, monitored and its data to be analysed by means of
distributed computing resources and databases is given. Results of the Tracker
performance as obtained in the various setups where the Tracker is being commissioned
are also presented.
| Submitted on behalf of Collaboration (ex, BaBar, ATLAS) | CMS [Tracker] Collaboration |
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Primary author
Dr
Dorian Kcira
(University of Louvain)
