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Performance of the ATLAS Muon Drift-Tube Chambers at High Background Rates and in Magnetic Fields
J. Dubbert, S. Horvat, F. Legger +6
The ATLAS muon spectrometer uses drift-tube chambers for precision tracking. The performance of these chambers in the presence of magnetic field and high radiation fluxes is studie…
Performance of the ATLAS Precision Muon Chambers under LHC Operating Conditions
M. Deile, H. Dietl, J. Dubbert +8
For the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider (LHC), large drift chambers consisting of 6 to 8 layers of pressurized drift tubes are used for precisi…
Resolution and Efficiency of the ATLAS Muon Drift-Tube Chambers at High Background Rates
M. Deile, J. Dubbert, S. Horvat +8
The resolution and efficiency of a precision drift-tube chamber for the ATLAS muon spectrometer with final read-out electronics was tested at the Gamma Irradiation Facility at CERN…
Development of Fast High-Resolution Muon Drift-Tube Detectors for High Counting Rates
B. Bittner, J. Dubbert, S. Horvat +10
Pressurized drift-tube chambers are efficient detectors for high-precision tracking over large areas. The Monitored Drift-Tube (MDT) chambers of the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS…
Development of Muon Drift-Tube Detectors for High-Luminosity Upgrades of the Large Hadron Collider
B. Bittner, J. Dubbert, O. Kortner +7
The muon detectors of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have to cope with unprecedentedly high neutron and gamma ray background rates. In the forward regions of th…
Studies on fast triggering and high precision tracking with Resistive Plate Chambers
G. Aielli, B. Bilki, R. Ball +27
We report on studies of fast triggering and high-precision tracking using Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Two beam tests were carried out with the 180 GeV muon beam at CERN using…
High Rate Proton Irradiation of 15mm Muon Drifttubes
Andre Zibell, Otmar Biebel, Ralf Hertenberger +7
Future LHC luminosity upgrades will significantly increase the amount of background hits from photons, neutrons and protons in the detectors of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. At the…
Streamlined Calibrations of the ATLAS Precision Muon Chambers for Initial LHC Running
N. Amram, R. Ball, Y. Benhammou +17
The ATLAS Muon Spectrometer is designed to measure the momentum of muons with a resolution of dp/p = 3% and 10% at 100 GeV and 1 TeV momentum respectively. For this task, the spect…
Upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Trigger for the SLHC
Jörg Dubbert, Sandra Horvat, Oliver Kortner +2
The outer shell of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC consists of a system of toroidal air-core magnets in order to allow for the precise measurement of the transverse momentum p…
A Cosmic Ray Measurement Facility for ATLAS Muon Chambers
O. Biebel, M. Binder, M. Boutemeur +15
Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers will constitute the large majority of precision detectors in the Muon Spectrometer of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.…