Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

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

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

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)

  • Subatomic Physics

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

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this