Engineering for the ATLAS SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) End-cap
Journal of Instrumentation 3:5 (2008)
Abstract:
The ATLAS SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) is a silicon-strip tracking detector which forms part of the ATLAS inner detector. The SCT is designed to track charged particles produced in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN at an energy of 14 TeV. The tracker is made up of a central barrel and two identical end-caps. The barrel contains 2112 silicon modules, while each end-cap contains 988 modules. The overall tracking performance depends not only on the intrinsic measurement precision of the modules but also on the characteristics of the whole assembly, in particular, the stability and the total material budget. This paper describes the engineering design and construction of the SCT end-caps, which are required to support mechanically the silicon modules, supply services to them and provide a suitable environment within the inner detector. Critical engineering choices are highlighted and innovative solutions are presented - these will be of interest to other builders of large-sca e tracking detectors. The SCT end-caps will be fully connected at the start of 2008. Further commissioning will continue, to be ready for proton-proton collision data in 2008. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.The ATLAS experiment at the CERN large hadron collider
Journal of Instrumentation 3:8 (2008)
The data acquisition and calibration system for the ATLAS semiconductor tracker
Journal of Instrumentation 3:1 (2008)
Abstract:
The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) data acquisition (DAQ) system will calibrate, configure, and control the approximately six million front-end channels of the ATLAS silicon strip detector. It will provide a synchronized bunch-crossing clock to the front-end modules, communicate first-level triggers to the front-end chips, and transfer information about hit strips to the ATLAS high-level trigger system. The system has been used extensively for calibration and quality assurance during SCT barrel and endcap assembly and for performance confirmation tests after transport of the barrels and endcaps to CERN. Operating in data-taking mode, the DAQ has recorded nearly twenty million synchronously-triggered events during commissioning tests including almost a million cosmic ray triggered events. In this paper we describe the components of the data acquisition system, discuss its operation in calibration and data-taking modes and present some detector performance results from these tests. © 2007 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.Combined performance tests before installation of the ATLAS Semiconductor and Transition Radiation Tracking Detectors
JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION 3 (2008) ARTN P08003
The data acquisition and calibration system for the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker
JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION 3 (2008) ARTN P01003