Study of the material of the ATLAS inner detector for Run 2 of the LHC



Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2858 more authors) (2017) Study of the material of the ATLAS inner detector for Run 2 of the LHC. JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, 12 (12). P12009-.

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Abstract

The ATLAS inner detector comprises three different sub-detectors: the pixel detector, the silicon strip tracker, and the transition-radiation drift-tube tracker. The Insertable $B$-Layer, a new innermost pixel layer, was installed during the shutdown period in 2014, together with modifications to the layout of the cables and support structures of the existing pixel detector. The material in the inner detector is studied with several methods, using a low-luminosity $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV $pp$ collision sample corresponding to around $2.0\,\mathrm{nb}^{-1}$ collected in 2015 with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. In this paper, the material within the innermost barrel region is studied using reconstructed hadronic interaction and photon conversion vertices. For the forward rapidity region, the material is probed by a measurement of the efficiency with which single tracks reconstructed from pixel detector hits alone can be extended with hits on the track in the strip layers. The results of these studies have been taken into account in an improved description of the material in the ATLAS inner detector simulation, resulting in a reduction in the uncertainties associated with the charged-particle reconstruction efficiency determined from simulation.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 60 pages in total, author list starting page 44, 21 figures, 7 tables, submitted to JINST, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/PERF-2015-07/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter etc), Particle tracking detectors, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 17 Jan 2018 07:44
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 06:43
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/P12009
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3016219