TY - JOUR
T1 - The cosmic ray hodoscopes for testing thin gap chambers at the Technion and Tel Aviv University
AU - Etzion, E.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Amram, N.
AU - Benhammou, Y.
AU - Ben-Moshe, M.
AU - Bella, G.
AU - Ginzburg, J.
AU - Gernitzky, Y.
AU - Harel, A.
AU - Landsman, H.
AU - Panikashvili, N.
AU - Rozen, Y.
AU - Tarem, S.
AU - Warszawski, E.
AU - Wasilewski, J.
AU - Levinson, L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received November 2, 2003; revised March 17, 2004. This work was supported by the Israel Science Foundation and the German Israeli Foundation. E. Etzion is with CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Resaerch, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland (e-mail: [email protected]). H. Abramowicz, N. Amram, Y. Benhammou, M. Ben-Moshe, G. Bella, and J. Ginzburg are with the School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Excat Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. Y. Gernitzky, A. Harel, H. Landsman, N. Panikashvili, Y. Rozen, S. Tarem, and E. Warszawski are with the Physics Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel. J. Wasilewski was with Tel Aviv University and is currently at the Technical University of Lodj, Lodj, Poland. L. Levinson is with the Particles Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TNS.2004.834720
PY - 2004/10
Y1 - 2004/10
N2 - Thin gap chambers (TGCs) are built for the muon trigger chambers in the endcap region of the LHC experiment ATLAS. More than 2500 ATLAS TGCs are being produced at the Weizmann institute in Israel, and in Shandong University in China. Detailed testing of these chambers is performed at the Technion and at the Tel-Aviv University. Two cosmic ray hodoscopes for testing the operation of these detectors were built in Israel. In these hodoscopes the response of the chambers to energetic cosmic ray muons is recorded and analyzed. The hodoscopes measure the exact time and space location of the cosmic ray hit and read out the chambers which are being tested to verify that they produce a corresponding signal within the required time interval. The cosmic ray hodoscopes built at the Technion and at the Tel Aviv University for the test of ATLAS TGCs are described. The mechanical structure, readout electronics, data acquisition and operating scheme are presented. Typical TGC test results are presented and discussed.
AB - Thin gap chambers (TGCs) are built for the muon trigger chambers in the endcap region of the LHC experiment ATLAS. More than 2500 ATLAS TGCs are being produced at the Weizmann institute in Israel, and in Shandong University in China. Detailed testing of these chambers is performed at the Technion and at the Tel-Aviv University. Two cosmic ray hodoscopes for testing the operation of these detectors were built in Israel. In these hodoscopes the response of the chambers to energetic cosmic ray muons is recorded and analyzed. The hodoscopes measure the exact time and space location of the cosmic ray hit and read out the chambers which are being tested to verify that they produce a corresponding signal within the required time interval. The cosmic ray hodoscopes built at the Technion and at the Tel Aviv University for the test of ATLAS TGCs are described. The mechanical structure, readout electronics, data acquisition and operating scheme are presented. Typical TGC test results are presented and discussed.
KW - Cosmic rays
KW - HEP
KW - Muon detectors
KW - Quality control
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U2 - 10.1109/TNS.2004.834720
DO - 10.1109/TNS.2004.834720
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AN - SCOPUS:8344223855
SN - 0018-9499
VL - 51
SP - 2091
EP - 2096
JO - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
JF - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
IS - 5 I
ER -