Autori: The ATLAS Collaboration

Editorial: Journal of Instrumentation, 3 S08003, 2008.

Rezumat:

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.

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

URL: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=60501387.2/1748-0221/3/08/S08003