Results of the 2018 ATLAS sTGC test beam and internal strip alignment of sTGC detectors

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dc.contributor.authorCarlson, Evan Michael
dc.contributor.supervisorTrigger, Isabel
dc.contributor.supervisorKowalewski, Robert V.
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-16T17:20:40Z
dc.date.available2019-07-16T17:20:40Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-07-16
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractOver the course of the next ten years, the LHC will undergo upgrades that will more than triple its current luminosity. This increase in luminosity will put greater demands on the ATLAS trigger system. To meet these demands, the Small Wheels of the muon spectrometer will be replaced with the New Small Wheels (NSWs) during Long Shutdown 2. The NSWs employ two gaseous detector technologies - small-strip Thin Gap Chambers (sTGCs) and Micromegas. To characterize the sTGCs, a series of test beams were conducted on a production sTGC module at the H8 beamline of CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron. The setup and results of the test beams are presented, and it has been found that the detector meets the performance requirements of the NSW for efficiency and multiplicity at several operating voltages. To meet the performance requirements of the NSW, the positions of the detector elements must be precisely known. Quality control measurements were made during construction of the sTGC strip cathode boards to allow for the reconstruction of individual strip positions. A transformation from the nominal strip geometry to the as-built geometry is derived based on the QC measurements. This transformation was tested against microscope and cosmic ray misalignment measurements. The as-built predictions agree well with the misalignment measurements, demonstrating the ability to reconstruct the strip positions from the QC measurements.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10973
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectATLASen_US
dc.subjectparticle physicsen_US
dc.subjectphysicsen_US
dc.subjectparticle detectorsen_US
dc.subjectCERNen_US
dc.subjectNew Small Wheelen_US
dc.subjectmuonen_US
dc.subjectsTGCen_US
dc.subjectsmall-strip Thin Gap Chamberen_US
dc.subjectbeam testen_US
dc.subjectquality controlen_US
dc.subjectalignmenten_US
dc.subjectas-builten_US
dc.subjectcosmic rayen_US
dc.subjectLarge Hadron Collideren_US
dc.subjectmuon spectrometeren_US
dc.subjectmicroscopeen_US
dc.subjectLong Shutdown 2en_US
dc.subjectH8en_US
dc.subjectSuper Proton Synchrotronen_US
dc.titleResults of the 2018 ATLAS sTGC test beam and internal strip alignment of sTGC detectorsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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