TY - JOUR
T1 - Operation and performance of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter in Run 1
AU - Clark, Philip James
AU - Farrington, Sinead
AU - Faucci Giannelli, Michele
AU - Gao, Yanyan
AU - Hasib, Ahmed
AU - Leonidopoulos, Christos
AU - Martin, Victoria Jane
AU - Mijović, Liza
AU - Wynne, Benjamin
AU - Collaboration, Atlas
PY - 2018/11/30
Y1 - 2018/11/30
N2 - The Tile Calorimeter is the hadron calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Approximately 10,000 photomultipliers collect light from scintillating tiles acting as the active material sandwiched between slabs of steel absorber. This paper gives an overview of the calorimeter’s performance during the years 2008–2012 using cosmic-ray muon events and proton–proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with a total integrated luminosity of nearly 30 fb$^{-1}$ . The signal reconstruction methods, calibration systems as well as the detector operation status are presented. The energy and time calibration methods performed excellently, resulting in good stability of the calorimeter response under varying conditions during the LHC Run 1. Finally, the Tile Calorimeter response to isolated muons and hadrons as well as to jets from proton–proton collisions is presented. The results demonstrate excellent performance in accord with specifications mentioned in the Technical Design Report.
AB - The Tile Calorimeter is the hadron calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Approximately 10,000 photomultipliers collect light from scintillating tiles acting as the active material sandwiched between slabs of steel absorber. This paper gives an overview of the calorimeter’s performance during the years 2008–2012 using cosmic-ray muon events and proton–proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with a total integrated luminosity of nearly 30 fb$^{-1}$ . The signal reconstruction methods, calibration systems as well as the detector operation status are presented. The energy and time calibration methods performed excellently, resulting in good stability of the calorimeter response under varying conditions during the LHC Run 1. Finally, the Tile Calorimeter response to isolated muons and hadrons as well as to jets from proton–proton collisions is presented. The results demonstrate excellent performance in accord with specifications mentioned in the Technical Design Report.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6374-z
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6374-z
M3 - Article
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 78
JO - The European Physical Journal C (EPJ C)
JF - The European Physical Journal C (EPJ C)
IS - 12
M1 - 987
ER -