Title :
Operational experience with the ATLAS Pixel Detector
Author_Institution :
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen, Germany
Abstract :
The ATLAS Pixel Detector is the innermost part of the ATLAS Detector which is operated at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It is a three-hit tracking system that provides high-resolution measurements of charged particle tracks and secondary vertices that are essential to the physics goals of ATLAS. The detector consists of 1744 silicon sensors totalling approximately 80 million electronic channels. The system operated smoothly with very high efficiency. In this paper operational experience with the Pixel Detector will be presented, including monitoring and detector calibration procedures. In addition, the current status of the Pixel Detector and its response to LHC high energy proton-proton collisions are presented.
Keywords :
position sensitive particle detectors; semiconductor counters; ATLAS detector; ATLAS pixel detector; Large Hadron Collider; charged particle tracks; detector calibration procedures; electronic channels; proton-proton collisions; tracking system; Detectors; Monitoring; ATLAS; LHC; operation; pixel detector;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Valencia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0118-3
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6154404
