Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons

0368709 - FZÚ 2013 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abdallah, J. - Chudoba, Jiří - Gallus, Petr - Gunther, Jaroslav - Havránek, Miroslav - Juránek, Vojtěch - Kepka, Oldřich - Kupčo, Alexander - Kůs, Vlastimil - Lipinský, L. - Lokajíček, Miloš - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Myška, Miroslav - Němeček, Stanislav - Panušková, M. - Růžička, Pavel - Schovancová, Jaroslava - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Taševský, Marek - Tic, Tomáš - Vrba, Václav … Total 2540 authors
Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons.
European Physical Journal C. Roč. 71, č. 3 (2011), s. 1-36. ISSN 1434-6044. E-ISSN 1434-6052
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LC527; GA MŠMT LA08015; GA MŠMT LA08032
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100502
Keywords : ATLAS * commissioning * cosmic rays
Subject RIV: BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics
Impact factor: 3.631, year: 2011
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.6665v1

Muons from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere provide a high-statistics source of particles that can be used to study the performance and calibration of the ATLAS detector. Cosmic-ray muons can penetrate to the cavern and deposit energy in all detector subsystems. Such events have played an important role in the commissioning of the detector since the start of the installation phase in 2005 and were particularly important for understanding the detector performance in the time prior to the arrival of the first LHC beams.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0202980