CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Slides
Report number	ATL-INDET-SLIDE-2019-805
Title	Operational Experience and Performance with the ATLAS Pixel detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Author(s)	Balbi, Gabriele (Universita e INFN, Bologna)
Corporate author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Collaboration	ATLAS Collaboration
Submitted to	2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC), Manchester, United Kingdom, 26 Oct - 2 Nov 2019
Submitted by	[email protected] on 25 Oct 2019
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Abstract	The tracking performance of the ATLAS detector relies critically on its 4-layer Pixel Detector, that has undergone significant hardware and readout upgrades to meet the challenges imposed by the higher collision energy, pileup and luminosity that are being delivered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with record breaking instantaneous luminosities of 2 x 1034 cm-2 s-1 recently surpassed. The key status and performance metrics of the ATLAS Pixel Detector are summarised, and the operational experience and requirements to ensure optimum data quality and data taking efficiency will be described, with special emphasis to radiation damage experience.