Construction and Test of MDT Chambers for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

Preprint

7 April 2016

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1604.02000

Abstract

The Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers for the muon spectrometer of the AT- LAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consist of 3-4 layers of pressurized drift tubes on either side of a space frame carrying an optical monitoring system to correct for deformations. The full-scale prototype of a large MDT chamber has been constructed with methods suitable for large-scale production. X-ray measurements at CERN showed a positioning accuracy of the sense wires in the chamber of better than the required 20 ?microns (rms). The performance of the chamber was studied in a muon beam at CERN. Chamber production for ATLAS now has started.

Keywords

MUON SPECTROMETER
SPECTROMETER
MDT CHAMBERS
DRIFT TUBES
ATLAS MUON
CERN

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Version 1, 2016-04-07, ArXiv
Published version: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 461 (1-3), 17.

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