Construction and test of monitored drift tube for the muon spectrometer of ATLAS experiment

Author

Aprile, A. ; Avolio, G. ; Campagna, A. ; Capua, M. ; Cuce´, D. ; Ferraro, E. ; Lamanna, E. ; Rotonda, L. La ; Meoni, E. ; Pellegrino, F. ; Romano, V. ; Schioppa, M. ; Susinno, G. ; Turco, P. ; Vena, R.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Fisica, Universita della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2001

Firstpage

646

Abstract

ATLAS is one of the two general purpose experiments being built for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Its muon spectrometer consists of very high precision chambers made of drift tubes (MDT: monitored drift tubes). Up to now more than 5000 MDTs have been constructed and tested at the University of Calabria for ATLAS BIL chambers of the muon detector. This work reports the critical MDT assembly techniques in detail, including the automatic electronics system and DAQ system. The extensive tests performed on individual drift tubes and the first results and experience are also reported.

Keywords

data acquisition; drift chambers; high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear electronics; particle spectrometers; ATLAS; data acquisition; electronics; monitored drift tube; muon spectrometer; Assembly systems; Hydraulic actuators; Laboratories; Mesons; Monitoring; Production; Spectroscopy; Swaging; Testing; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2001 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7324-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2001.1009644

Filename

1009644