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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 67: Myon Detectors

T 67.6: Talk

Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 17:40–17:55, T-H26

Measuring the geometry of the new small-diameter Monitored Drift Tube (sMDT) chambers constructed for the HL-LHC upgrade of the ATLAS Muonspectrometer — •Alice Reed, Daniel Buchin, Marian Rendel, Patrick Rieck, Elena Voevodina, Oliver Kortner, and Hubert Kroha — Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), München

In order to improve the muon trigger efficiency and the rate capability of the ATLAS muon detectors for operation at the high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers in the inner barrel layer of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer will be replaced by small-diameter Muon Drift Tube (sMDT) chambers integrated with new thin-gap RPC trigger chambers. The sMDT chambers fit, together with the RPCs, into the very tight available space and provide provide an order of magnitude higher background rate capability compared to the current detectors.

The sMDT chambers have to provide a sense wire positioning accuracy of better than 20 µm and this requires the geometry of the chambers to be measured with a high precision. The measurement procedure and results are discussed for the chambers in serial production.