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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 90: Muon detectors

T 90.1: Group Report

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 16:00–16:20, To

Commissioning of the new small-diameter Monitored Drift Tube detectors for the Phase-1 Upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer — •Elena Voevodina, Gregor Hieronymus Eberwein, Oliver Kortner, Hubert Kroha, Daniel Soyk, Patrick Rieck, and Marian Rendel — Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany

The Muon Drift Tube chambers provide very precise and reliable muon tracking and momentum measurement in the ATLAS muon spectrometer. Already in Run 2 of the LHC they have to cope with very high background counting rates up to 500 Hz/cm2 in the inner endcap layers. At High-Luminosity LHC, the background rates are expected to increase by almost a factor of 10. New small (15 mm)-diameter Muon Drift Tube detectors have been developed for upgrades of the muon system. They provide about an order of magnitude higher rate capability and allow for the installation of additional new triplet-RPC trigger chambers in the barrel inner layer of the muon detector for HL-LHC. A pilot project for the barrel inner layer upgrade is underway during the 2019/21 LHC shutdown. Several sMDT chambers have already been installed and operated in the ATLAS detector. The detailed studies of the muon detection efficiency and muon track resolution have been carried out after the assembling of the sMDT detectors in MPI and repeated at CERN after the integration with the new RPC detectors. The author will describe the detector design, the quality assurance and certification path, as well as will present the status of sMDT detectors installation and commissioning in the ATLAS experiment.