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Mechanical construction and installation of the ATLAS tile calorimeter
ATLAS Tile Calorimeter collaboration (234 authors); Alves, R.; Amaral, P.; Carvalho, J.; David, M.; Gomes, A.; Maio, A.; Marques, C.; Onofre, A.This paper summarises the mechanical construction andinstallation of the Tile Calorimeter for the ATLASexperiment at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Switzerland. The TileCalorimeter is a sampling calorimeter using scintillator as the sensitivedetector and steel as the absorber and covers the central region of the ATLASexperiment up to pseudorapidities ±1.7. The mechanical construction ofthe Tile Calorimeter ...
Performance of shielded timing RPCs in a 12C fragmentation experiment
Alvarez Pol, H.; Alves, R.; Blanco, A.; Carolino, N.; Eschke, J.; Ferreira-Marques, R.; Fonte, P.; Garzón, J. A.; González Díaz, D.; Pereira, A.We show the feasibility of large area timing RPC detectors for experiments dealing with fragmentation-like primary interactions and/or high detector multiplicities, without significative degradation of the detector capabilities. The tested prototype is constituted by three independent cells placed into grounded aluminium boxes, which reduce the cross-talk to the level of 0.4%. Each box consists of a 4-gap glass...
A large area timing RPC prototype for ion collisions in the HADES spectrometer
Alvarez Pol, H.; Alves, R.; Blanco, A.; Carolino, N.; Eschke, J.; Ferreira-Marques, R.; Fonte, P.; Garzón, J. A.; González Díaz, D.; Pereira, A.We present a resistive plate chamber (RPC) prototype for time-of-flight measurements over large areas and at high occupancies, minimizing the inter-channel cross-talk.; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TJM-4D75GPD-9/1/a6fe40c114a867a0f98e2fec0f133503
Hadronic shower development in Iron-Scintillator Tile Calorimetry
Amaral, P.; Amorim, A.; Anderson, K.; Barreira, G.; Benetta, R.; Berglund, S.; Biscarat, C.; Blanchot, G.; Blucher, E.; Bogush, A.; Bohm, C.The lateral and longitudinal profiles of hadronic showers detected by a prototype of the ATLAS Iron-Scintillator Tile Hadron Calorimeter have been investigated. This calorimeter presents a unique longitudinal configuration of scintillator tiles. Using a fine-grained pion beam scan at 100 GeV, a detailed picture of transverse shower behaviour is obtained. The underlying radial energy densities for the four depth...
High-resolution RPCs for large TOF systems
Fonte, P.; Marques, R. Ferreira; Pinhão, J.; Carolino, N.; Policarpo, A.Here, we report on a particular type of RPC that presents up to 99% efficiency for minimum ionizing particles and a very sharp time resolution, below 50 ps [sigma] in the most optimized conditions. Our 9 cm2 cells, made with glass and metal electrodes that form accurately spaced gaps of a few hundred micrometers, are operated at atmospheric pressure in non-flammable gases and can be economically produced in lar...
Evaluation of Fermi read-out of the Atlas Tilecal prototype
Ajaltouni, Z.; Albiol, F.; Alifanov, A.; Amaral, P.; Amelin, D.; Amorim, A.; Anderson, K.; Angelini, C.; Agnvall, S.; Antola, A.; Astesan, F.Prototypes of the FERMI system have been used to read out a prototype of the ATLAS hadron calorimeter in a beam test at the CERN SPS. The FERMI read-out system, using a compressor and a sampling ADC, is compared to a standard charge integrating read-out by measuring the energy resolution of the calorimeter separately with the two systems on the same events.; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TJM-3S...