Göran Jarlskog
Professor emeritus
The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Author
Summary, in English
The ATLAS detector as installed in its experimental cavern at point 1 at CERN is described in this paper. A brief overview of the expected performance of the detector when the Large Hadron Collider begins operation is also presented.
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
Publishing year
2008
Language
English
Publication/Series
Journal of Instrumentation
Volume
3
Issue
S08003
Document type
Journal article review
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Topic
- Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
Keywords
- transverse energy
- Particle identification
- Vertexing algorithms
- algorithms
- Tracking
- b-tagging
- High-level
- Heavy-ion
- Accelerator
- Transition radiation
- collisions
- Minimum-bias events
- Pile-up
- Bunch-crossings
- Superconducting magnets
- Solenoidal field
- Magnetic
- Toroidal field
- Hall probes
- field measurements
- tracking
- Vertex measurement
- Inner detector
- Silicon micro-strip
- Charged-particle
- Pixel detectors
- Time-over-threshold
- detectors
- Proton-proton collisions
- CERN
- LHC
- ATLAS
- Radiation-hard
- Carbon-fibre reinforced plastics
- electronics
- Optical fibres
- Fluorinert cooling
- Calorimetry
- Sampling calorimeters
- Electromagnetic and hadronic interactions
- Scintillator tiles
- Liquid argon
- Forward
- calorimetry
- Accordion geometry
- Lateral segmentation
- Longitudinal
- Trigger
- Precision-tracking chambers
- segmentation
- Drift tubes
- chambers
- Muon spectrometer
- Thin-gap chambers
- Resistive-plate chambers
- Optical alignment systems
- Roman
- Pots
- Forward detectors
- Trigger and data acquisition
- Cerenkov light
- Impact parameter measurements
- Zero-degree calorimetry
- Taus
- Missing
- Jets
- Leptons
- Muons
- Photons
- Electrons
- farm
- Processor
- Bandwidth
- trigger
- Event filter
- Detector control system
Status
Published
Project
- ATLAS
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1748-0221