At the leading edge : the ATLAS and CMS LHC experiments /

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Imprint:	Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 436 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Subject:	Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) Nuclear counters. Symmetry (Physics) Particles (Nuclear physics) Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) Nuclear counters. Particles (Nuclear physics) Symmetry (Physics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11285068

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Other authors / contributors:	Green, Dan, 1943-
ISBN:	9789814277624 9814277622 9789814277617 9814277614 9789814304672 9814304670
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	Too often descriptions of detectors focus on the "what" and not the "why". This volume aims to elucidate how the requirements of the physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) define the detector environment. In turn, the detector choices are made to adopt to that environment. The goal of LHC physics is to explore the mechanism for electroweak symmetry breaking. Because of the minuscule cross-sections which need to be explored, 0.1 fb, the LHC needs to provide 100 fb-1/yr, or an instantaneous luminosity of 1034 / (cm2 sec). With a bunch crossing interval of 25 nsec, well matched to detector speeds, there will be 25 events occupying each bunch crossing. Thus the physics requires fast, finely segmented, low noise and radiation resistant detectors which provide redundant measurements of the rarely produced electrons and muons. To achieve those goals, new ground was broken in constructing the A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (ATLAS) and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detectors in the vertex detectors, tracking systems, calorimetry, strong magnets, muon systems, front end electronics, trigger systems, and in the data acquisition methods used.
Other form:	Print version: At the leading edge. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2010 9789814277617

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction : how physics defines the LHC environment and detectors / D. Green
ch. 2. The CMS pixel detector / W. Erdmann
ch. 3. The hybrid tracking system of ATLAS / Leonardo Rossi
ch. 4. The all-silicon strip CMS tracker : microtechnology at the macroscale / M. Mannelli
ch. 5. The ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeters : features and performance / Luciano Mandelli
ch. 6. The CMS electromagnetic calorimeter : crystals and APD productions / P. Bloch
ch. 7. ATLAS electronics : an overview / Philippe Farthouat
ch. 8. Innovations in the CMS tracker electronics / G. Hall
ch. 9. TileCal : the hadronic section of the central ATLAS calorimeter / K. Anderson [and others]
ch. 10. Innovations for the CMS HCAL / J. Freeman
ch. 11. ATLAS superconducting toroids
the largest ever built / Herman H.J. ten Kate
ch. 12. Constructing a 4-Tesla large thin solenoid at the limit of what can be safely operated / A. Hervé
ch. 13. The ATLAS muon spectrometer / Giora Mikenberg
ch. 14. The CMS muon detector : from the first thoughts to the final design / Fabrizio Gasparini
ch. 15. The why and how of the ATLAS data acquisition system / Livio Mapelli and Giuseppe Mornacchi
ch. 16. Removing the haystack
the CMS trigger and data acquisition systems / Vivian O'Dell.

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