The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

G. Aad, Torsten Åkesson, Paula Eerola, Vincent Hedberg, G. Jarlskog, Oxana Smirnova, V. Zychacek, ATLAS Collaboration

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Abstract

The ATLAS detector as installed in its experimental cavern at point 1 at CERN is described in this paper. A brief overview of the expected performance of the detector when the Large Hadron Collider begins operation is also presented.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume3
Issue numberS08003
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

Free keywords

  • transverse energy
  • Particle identification
  • Vertexing algorithms
  • algorithms
  • Tracking
  • b-tagging
  • High-level
  • Heavy-ion
  • Accelerator
  • Transition radiation
  • collisions
  • Minimum-bias events
  • Pile-up
  • Bunch-crossings
  • Superconducting magnets
  • Solenoidal field
  • Magnetic
  • Toroidal field
  • Hall probes
  • field measurements
  • tracking
  • Vertex measurement
  • Inner detector
  • Silicon micro-strip
  • Charged-particle
  • Pixel detectors
  • Time-over-threshold
  • detectors
  • Proton-proton collisions
  • CERN
  • LHC
  • ATLAS
  • Radiation-hard
  • Carbon-fibre reinforced plastics
  • electronics
  • Optical fibres
  • Fluorinert cooling
  • Calorimetry
  • Sampling calorimeters
  • Electromagnetic and hadronic interactions
  • Scintillator tiles
  • Liquid argon
  • Forward
  • calorimetry
  • Accordion geometry
  • Lateral segmentation
  • Longitudinal
  • Trigger
  • Precision-tracking chambers
  • segmentation
  • Drift tubes
  • chambers
  • Muon spectrometer
  • Thin-gap chambers
  • Resistive-plate chambers
  • Optical alignment systems
  • Roman
  • Pots
  • Forward detectors
  • Trigger and data acquisition
  • Cerenkov light
  • Impact parameter measurements
  • Zero-degree calorimetry
  • Taus
  • Missing
  • Jets
  • Leptons
  • Muons
  • Photons
  • Electrons
  • farm
  • Processor
  • Bandwidth
  • trigger
  • Event filter
  • Detector control system

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