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Oxana Smirnova

Oxana Smirnova

Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of division

Oxana Smirnova

Study of the material of the ATLAS inner detector for Run 2 of the LHC

Author

  • M Aaboud
  • G Aad
  • B. Abbott
  • J Abdallah
  • O Abdinov
  • B Abeloos
  • Torsten Åkesson
  • Simona Bocchetta
  • Caterina Doglioni
  • Vincent Hedberg
  • Göran Jarlskog
  • Charles Kalderon
  • Else Lytken
  • Ulf Mjörnmark
  • Trine Poulsen
  • Oxana Smirnova
  • Oleksandr Viazlo
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Summary, in English

The ATLAS inner detector comprises three different sub-detectors: the pixel detector, the silicon strip tracker, and the transition-radiation drift-tube tracker. The Insertable B-Layer, a new innermost pixel layer, was installed during the shutdown period in 2014, together with modifications to the layout of the cables and support structures of the existing pixel detector. The material in the inner detector is studied with several methods, using a low-luminosity s=13 TeV pp collision sample corresponding to around 2.0 nb-1 collected in 2015 with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. In this paper, the material within the innermost barrel region is studied using reconstructed hadronic interaction and photon conversion vertices. For the forward rapidity region, the material is probed by a measurement of the efficiency with which single tracks reconstructed from pixel detector hits alone can be extended with hits on the track in the strip layers. The results of these studies have been taken into account in an improved description of the material in the ATLAS inner detector simulation, resulting in a reduction in the uncertainties associated with the charged-particle reconstruction efficiency determined from simulation. © 2017 CERN.

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2017

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Instrumentation

Volume

12

Issue

12

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Topic

  • Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc)
  • Particle tracking detectors
  • Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
  • Charged particles
  • High energy physics
  • Photons
  • Readout systems
  • Silicon detectors
  • Tellurium compounds
  • Hadronic interactions
  • High energy physics detector
  • Modelling and simulations
  • Particle tracking
  • Reconstruction efficiency
  • Silicon strip tracker
  • Support structures
  • Transition radiation
  • Pixels

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1748-0221