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| Title | An automatic system for controlling the quality of straws installed in the ATLAS TRT detector |
| Author(s) | Golunov, A O ; Grigalashvili, N S ; Gousakov, Yu V ; Kekelidze, G D ; Livinski, V V ; Mouraviev, S V ; Parzycki, S S ; Peshekhonov, V D ; Price, M J ; Savenkov, A A |
| Affiliation | (CERN) |
| Publication | 2004 |
| In: | Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 524 (2004) 142-145 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.nima.2004.01.059 |
| Subject category | Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC ; ATLAS |
| Abstract | This article describes an automatic system to control the quality of straws installed in the wheels of the end-cap Transition Radiation Tracker of the ATLAS experiment. The system tests both the straightness and the electrical insulation of the straws during installation. The testing time per straw is 9s; consequently it takes about 2h to measure one layer of straws. The off-line analysis takes 20s per straw. With this system defects can be immediately detected and corrected. This clearly influences the future performance of the detector. |