Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons

UNSPECIFIED (2011) Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 71 (3): 1593. ISSN 1434-6044

[thumbnail of art_3A10.1140_2Fepjc_2Fs10052_011_1593_6.pdf]
Preview
PDF
art_3A10.1140_2Fepjc_2Fs10052_011_1593_6.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs.

Download (4MB)

Abstract

Muons from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere provide a high-statistics source of particles that can be used to study the performance and calibration of the ATLAS detector. Cosmic-ray muons can penetrate to the cavern and deposit energy in all detector subsystems. Such events have played an important role in the commissioning of the detector since the start of the installation phase in 2005 and were particularly important for understanding the detector performance in the time prior to the arrival of the first LHC beams. Global cosmic-ray runs were undertaken in both 2008 and 2009 and these data have been used through to the early phases of collision data-taking as a tool for calibration, alignment and detector monitoring. These large datasets have also been used for detector performance studies, including investigations that rely on the combined performance of different subsystems. This paper presents the results of performance studies related to combined tracking, lepton identification and the reconstruction of jets and missing transverse energy. Results are compared to expectations based on a cosmic-ray event generator and a full simulation of the detector response.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Additional Information:
This article is distributed under the terms of of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3101
Subjects:
?? physics and astronomy (miscellaneous)engineering (miscellaneous)qc physics ??
ID Code:
67891
Deposited By:
Deposited On:
09 Dec 2013 11:12
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
Last Modified:
16 Jul 2024 09:30