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ATLAS Muon Drift Tube Electronics

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Y Arai7, B Ball10, M Beretta4, H Boterenbrood11, G W Brandenburg3, F Ceradini6, J W Chapman10, T Dai10, C Ferretti10, T Fries3, J Gregory10, J Guimarães da Costa3, S Harder3, E Hazen1, J Huth3, P P M Jansweijer11, L E Kirsch2, A C König12, A Lanza5, G Mikenberg13, J Oliver3, C Posch1,14, R Richter9, W Riegler3,15, E Spiriti6, F E Taylor8, J C Vermeulen11, B Wadsworth8 and T A M Wijnen12

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This paper describes the electronics used for the ATLAS monitored drift tube (MDT) chambers. These chambers are the main component of the precision tracking system in the ATLAS muon spectrometer. The MDT detector system consists of 1,150 chambers containing a total of 354,000 drift tubes. It is capable of measuring the sagitta of muon tracks to an accuracy of 60 μm, which corresponds to a momentum accuracy of about 10% at pT= 1 TeV. The design and performance of the MDT readout electronics as well as the electronics for controlling, monitoring and powering the detector will be discussed. These electronics have been extensively tested under simulated running conditions and have undergone radiation testing certifying them for more than 10 years of LHC operation. They are now installed on the ATLAS detector and are operating during cosmic ray commissioning runs.

Keywords

Front-end electronics for detector readout

Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, architecture, hardware, algorithms, databases)

Electronic detector readout concepts (gas, liquid)

Data acquisition circuits

PACS

29.40.Gx Tracking and position-sensitive detectors

95.55.Vj Neutrino, muon, pion, and other elementary particle detectors; cosmic ray detectors

29.40.Cs Gas-filled counters: ionization chambers, proportional, and avalanche counters

84.30.-r Electronic circuits

Subjects

Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism

Electronics and devices

Nuclear physics

Instrumentation and measurement

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 09 (September 2008)

Received 23 May 2008, accepted for publication 11 August 2008

Published 5 September 2008



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