Journal article

Mechanical construction and installation of the ATLAS tile calorimeter

J Abdallah, P Adragna, C Alexa, R Alves, P Amaral, A Ananiev, K Anderson, X Andresen, A Antonaki, V Batusov, P Bednar, A Behrens, E Bergeaas, C Biscarat, O Blanch, G Blanchot, J Blocki, C Bohm, V Boldea, F Bosi Show all

Journal of Instrumentation | IOP PUBLISHING LTD | Published : 2013

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Abstract

This paper summarises the mechanical construction and installation of the Tile Calorimeter for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Switzerland. The Tile Calorimeter is a sampling calorimeter using scintillator as the sensitive detector and steel as the absorber and covers the central region of the ATLAS experiment up to pseudorapidities ±1.7. The mechanical construction of the Tile Calorimeter occurred over a period of about 10 years beginning in 1995 with the completion of the Technical Design Report and ending in 2006 with the installation of the final module in the ATLAS cavern. During this period approximately 2600 metric tons of steel were transformed into a lamin..

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Funding Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Ministry of Economical Development and Trade, Armenia; State Committee on Science and Technologies of the Republic of Belarus; CNPq and FINEP, Brazil; CERN; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, and Committee for Collaboration of the Czech Republic with CERN; IN2P3, France; Georgian Academy of Sciences; GSRT and NKUA/SARG, Greece; INFN, Italy; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; Ministry of Education and Research, Romania; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Russian Federal Agency of Science and Innovations, and Russian Federal Agency of Atomic Energy; JINR; Ministry Department of International Science and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic; Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (MEC), Spain; The Swedish Research Council, The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; DOE and NSF, United States of America.