Showing papers by "Claudia Gemme published in 2006"
01 Sep 2006-Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of a very intensive beam releasing a high instantaneous dose in the pixel detector has been measured in a short experiment performed at the CERN Proton Synchrotron.
Abstract: The ATLAS pixel detector has been designed to sustain a dose of 500 kGy integrated over 10 years of operation. This very substantial radiation hardness should also favor the survival of the detector in case of accidental beam losses. The effect of a very intensive beam releasing a high instantaneous dose in the pixel detector has been measured in a short experiment performed at the CERN Proton Synchrotron. The results confirm that the ATLAS pixel detector can survive to beam losses with minimal or no deterioration of performance.
10 citations
01 May 2006-Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
TL;DR: In this article, the status of the pixel detector in the ATLAS experiment is reported, focusing on the problems we have found in this large-scale production, and the installation of pixel detector is foreseen early in 2006 and module production should be finished in the fall of 2005.
Abstract: The ATLAS experiment will make use of a pixel detector in the innermost part of its semiconductor tracker. The pixel detector consists of three cylindrical layers in the barrel part and three disks in the forward and backward parts. Modules are the building blocks of the detector. There are 1456 modules in the barrel and 288 in the end-caps. They are all identical to simplify construction and maintenance. The installation of the pixel detector in the experiment is foreseen early in 2006 and the module production should be finished in the fall of 2005. In this paper the status of the module production is reported, focusing on the problems we have found in this large-scale production.
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