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Performance of the electronic readout of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeters
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Published 7 September 2010 •
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Instrumentation,
Volume 5,
September 2010
Citation H Abreu et al 2010 JINST5 P09003DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/5/09/P09003
1 University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Centre for Particle Physics, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G7, Canada
2 LAPP, Université de Savoie, CNTS/IN2P3, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
3 University of Arizona, Department of Physics, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States of America
4 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department, Bldg. 510A, Upton, NY 11973, United States of America
5 Carleton University, Department of Physics, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa ON K1S 5B6, Canada
6 CERN, CH 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
7 Columbia University, Nevis Laboratory, 136 So. Broadway, Irvington, NY 10533, United States of America
8 Southern Methodist University, Physics Department, 106 Fondren Science Building, Dallas, TX 75275-0175, United States of America
9 Technical University Dresden, Institut fuer Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Zellescher Weg 19, D-01069 Dresden, Germany
10 Université de Genève, section de Physique, 24 rue Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
11 Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Joseph Fourier, INPG, 53 avenue des Martyrs, FR 38026 Grenoble Cedex, France
12 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR Dubna, RU 141 980Moscow Region, Russia
13 Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), Université Denis Diderot (Paris 7), CNRS/IN2P3, Tour 33, 4 place Jussieu, FR 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
14 Universitaet Mainz, Institut fuer Physik, Staudinger Weg 7, DE 55099 Mainz, Germany
15 CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
16 INFN Sezione di Milano, via Celoria 16, IT - 20133 Milano, Italy
17 Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Celoria 16, IT-20133 Milano, Italy
18 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, Germany
19 Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP), RU Novosibirsk 630 090, Russia
20 LAL, Université Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, Orsay, France
21 University of Regina, Physics Department, Canada
22 Université Hassan II, Faculté des Sciences Ain Chock, B.P. 5366, MA - Casablanca
23 CEA, DSM/IRFU, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, FR 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
24 Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics & Informatics, Mlynska dolina F2, SK 84258 Bratislava, Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dept. of Subnuclear Physics, Watsonova 47, SK 04353 Kosice, Slovak Republic
25 Stony Brook University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, United States of America
26 Insitute of Physics, Academia Sinica, TW-Taipei 11529, Taiwan
27 University of Toronto, Department of Physics, 60 Saint George Street, Toronto M5S 1A7, Ontario, Canada
The ATLAS detector has been designed for operation at the
Large Hadron Collider at CERN. ATLAS includes electromagnetic and
hadronic liquid argon calorimeters, with almost 200,000 channels of
data that must be sampled at the LHC bunch crossing frequency of
40 MHz. The calorimeter electronics calibration and readout are
performed by custom electronics developed specifically for these
purposes. This paper describes the system performance of the ATLAS
liquid argon calibration and readout electronics, including noise,
energy and time resolution, and long term stability, with data taken
mainly from full-system calibration runs performed after
installation of the system in the ATLAS detector hall at CERN.