CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Note
Report number	ATL-INDET-PROC-2011-032
Title	ATLAS SemiConductor Tracker: operation and performance
Author(s)	Moreno Llacer, M (Valencia U., IFIC)
Corporate Author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Publication	2011
Imprint	15 Nov 2011
Number of pages	5
In:	2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23 - 29 Oct 2011
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	Silicon microstrips, ATLAS, noise, radiation ; damage
Abstract	The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) is a silicon strip detector and one of the key precision tracking devices in the Inner Detector of the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment at CERN. The SCT instalation in the ATLAS experimental cavern was completed in 2007 and it has been operational since then. An extensive commissioning phase followed, during which calibration data was collected and the performance of the system was studied. The SCT was ready for the first LHC proton-proton collisions and it continues recording data succesfully since then. In this paper, the current status, operation and performance of the SCT is reviewed, including results from data-taking periods in 2010 and 2011.
Copyright/License	Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0)

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