Speaker
Mr
Phillip Killewald
(The Ohio State University)
Description
The CMS detector is a general-purpose particle detector centered on one of the interaction points at the LHC. On the endcaps of the detector, interspersed between iron disks that serve as a return yoke for the detector's solenoidal magnetic field, are mounted 468 cathode strip chambers (CSCs). These chambers will serve as a trigger and spectrometer for muons generated in high-energy proton-proton collisions. Because of the feature of muons in many new physics processes, and their cleanly identifiable signature in the outer layers of the detector, it is of the utmost importance that the CSCs produce the highest quality data possible when beam arrives. This talk summarizes the current status of the CSC commissioning effort in the areas of hardware, software, and alignment, using data from cosmic rays and Monte Carlo detector simulations.
Author
Boaz Klima
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab)-Unknown-Unknown)
