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An automatic system for controlling the quality of straws installed in the ATLAS TRT detector

Authors :
G. D. Kekelidze
A.O. Golunov
N. Grigalashvili
M. J. Price
S.V. Mouraviev
Yu.V. Gousakov
Vladimir Peshekhonov
V.V. Livinski
A. A. Savenkov
S.S. Parzycki
Source :
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 524:142-145
Publication Year :
2004
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2004.

Abstract

This article describes an automatic system to control the quality of straws installed in the wheels of the end-cap Transition Radiation Tracker of the ATLAS experiment. The system tests both the straightness and the electrical insulation of the straws during installation. The testing time per straw is 9 s; consequently it takes about 2 h to measure one layer of straws. The off-line analysis takes 20 s per straw. With this system defects can be immediately detected and corrected. This clearly influences the future performance of the detector.

Details

ISSN :
01689002
Volume :
524
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Accession number :
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