CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Note
Report number	ATL-TILECAL-PROC-2010-001
Title	Commissioning of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter
Author(s)	Maneira, Jose (LIP, Lisbon)
Corporate Author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Publication	2010
Imprint	25 Jan 2010
Number of pages	3
In:	20th Hadron Collider Physics Symposium 2009, Evian-les-Bains, France, 16 - 20 Nov 2009
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	TileCal ; Commissioning ; Cosmic Muons
Abstract	TileCal is the barrel hadronic calorimeter for ATLAS at the LHC/CERN, made of iron and scintillating tiles, read-out by WLS fibers and PMTs. The commissioning of the detector in the ATLAS cavern started in 2005, and in September 2008, it participated successfully in the data taking with the LHC start-up single beam runs, with more the 98 % of the channels active. After the LHC shutdown, the TileCal commissioning activities focused on repairing additional channels, improving the detector calibrations and data quality procedures, and using the cosmic muon data to provide cross-checks on those calibrations an on the overall performance of the detector. This communication summarizes these aspects of the recent TileCal commissioning activities and provides a status of the detector readiness for pp collisions.
Copyright/License	Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0)

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