Operational experience with the ATLAS Pixel Detector

Author

Lange, Clemens

Author_Institution

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1982

Lastpage

1985

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0118-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6154404

Filename

6154404