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The optical instrumentation of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter
J Abdallah, P Adragna, C Alexa, R Alves, P Amaral, A Ananiev, K Anderson, X Andresen, A Antonaki, V Batusov, P Bednar, E Bergeaas, C Biscarat, O Blanch, G Blanchot, C Bohm, V Boldea, F Bosi, M Bosman, C Bromberg, J Budagov, D Calvet, C Cardeira, T Carli, J Carvalho, M Cascella, M V Castillo, J Costelo, M Cavalli-Sforza, V Cavasinni, A S Cerqueira, C Clement, M Cobal, F Cogswell, S Constantinescu, D Costanzo, P Da Silva, M David, T Davidek, J Dawson, K De, T Del Prete, E Diakov, B Di Girolamo, S Dita, J Dolejsi, Z Dolezal, A Dotti, R Downing, G Drake, I Efthymiopoulos, D Errede, S Errede, A Farbin, D Fassouliotis, E Feng, A Fenyuk, C Ferdi, B C Ferreira, A Ferrer, V Flaminio, J Flix, P Francavilla, E Fullana, V Garde, K Gellerstedt, V Giakoumopoulou, V Giangiobbe, O Gildemeister, V Gilewsky, N Giokaris, N Gollub, A Gomes, V Gonzalez, J Gouveia, P Grenier, P Gris, V Guarino, C Guicheney, A Gupta, H Hakobyan, M Haney, S Hellman, A Henriques, E Higon, N Hill, S Holmgren, I Hruska, M Hurwitz, J Huston, I Jen-La Plante, K Jon-And, T Junk, A Karyukhin, J Khubua, J Klereborn, V Konstantinov, S Kopikov, I Korolkov, P Krivkova, Y Kulchitsky, Yu Kurochkin, P Kuzhir, V Lapin, T LeCompte, R Lefevre, R Leitner, J Li, M Liablin, M Lokajicek, Y Lomakin, P Lourtie, L Lovas, A Lupi, C Maidantchik, A Maio, S Maliukov, A Manousakis, C Marques, F Marroquim, F Martin, E Mazzoni, F Merritt, A Miagkov, R Miller, I Minashvili, L Miralles, G Montarou, S Nemecek, M Nessi, I Nikitine, L Nodulman, O Norniella, A Onofre, M Oreglia, B Palan, D Pallin, D Pantea, A Pereira, J Pilcher, J Pina, J Pinhao, E Pod, F Podlyski, X Portell, J Poveda, L Pribyl, L E Price, J Proudfoot, M Ramalho, M Ramstedt, L Raposeiro, J Reis, R Richards, C Roda, V Romanov, P Rosnet, P Roy, A Ruiz, V Rumiantsau, N Russakovich, J Sa da Costa, O Saltó, B Salvachua, E Sanchis, H Sanders, C Santoni, J Santos, J G Saraiva, F Sarri, L -P Says, G Schlager, J Schlereth, J M Seixas, B Sellden, N Shalanda, P Shevtsov, M Shochet, J Silva, V Simaitis, M Simonyan, A Sissakian, J Sjoelin, C Solans, A Solodkov, O Solovianov, M Sosebee, F Spanò, P Speckmeyer, R Stanek, E Starchenko, P Starovoitov, M Suk, I Sykora, F Tang, P Tas, R Teuscher, M Tischenko, S Tokar, N Topilin, J Torres, D Underwood, G Usai, A Valero, S Valkar, J A Valls, A Vartapetian, F Vazeille, C Vellidis, F Ventura, I Vichou, I Vivarelli, M Volpi, A White, A Zaitsev, Yu Zaytsev, A Zenin, T Zenis, Z Zenonos, S Zenz and B Zilka
Published 9 January 2013 •
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Instrumentation,
Volume 8,
January 2013
Citation J Abdallah et al 2013 JINST8 P01005DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/8/01/P01005
The Tile Calorimeter, covering the central region of the
ATLAS experiment up to pseudorapidities of ±1.7, is a sampling device
built with scintillating tiles that alternate with iron plates. The light is
collected in wave-length shifting (WLS) fibers and is read out with
photomultipliers. In the characteristic geometry of this calorimeter the
tiles lie in planes perpendicular to the beams, resulting in a very simple
and modular mechanical and optical layout. This paper focuses on the
procedures applied in the optical instrumentation of the calorimeter, which
involved the assembly of about 460,000 scintillator tiles and 550,000 WLS
fibers. The outcome is a hadronic calorimeter that meets the ATLAS
performance requirements, as shown in this paper.
