The International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) was founded in 1978 and was the first institution in Italy to promote post-graduate courses leading to a Doctor Philosophiae (or PhD) degree. A centre of excellence among Italian and international universities, the school has around 65 teachers, 100 post docs and 245 PhD students, and is located in Trieste, in a campus of more than 10 hectares with wonderful views over the Gulf of Trieste.
SISSA hosts a very high-ranking, large and multidisciplinary scientific research output. The scientific papers produced by its researchers are published in high impact factor, well-known international journals, and in many cases in the world's most prestigious scientific journals such as Nature and Science. Over 900 students have so far started their careers in the field of mathematics, physics and neuroscience research at SISSA.
Combined performance tests before installation of the ATLAS Semiconductor and Transition Radiation Tracking Detectors
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Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Instrumentation,
Volume 3,
August 2008
Citation E Abat et al 2008 JINST3 P08003DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/P08003
1 Centre for Particle Physics, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G7, Canada
2 University of Bergen, Department for Physics and Technology, Allegaten 55, NO - 5007 Bergen, Norway
3 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Physics Division, MS50B-6227, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America
4 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
5 Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics, Bogazici University, TR - 80815 Bebek-Istanbul, Turkey
6 Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn, Nussallee 12, D - 53115 Bonn, Germany
7 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department, Bldg. 510A, Upton, NY 11973, United States of America
8 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
10 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK - 2100 Kobenhavn 0, Denmark
11 Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science of the AGH-University of Science and Technology (FPACS, AGH-UST), al. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30059 Cracow, Poland
12 The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Radzikowskiego 152, PL - 31342 Krakow, Poland
13 Duke University, Department of Physics, Durham, NC 27708, United States of America
14 Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Freiburg, Hermann-Herder Str. 3, D - 79104 Freiburg i.Br., Germany
15 Universite de Geneve, Section de Physique, 24 rue Ernest Ansermet, CH - 1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland
16 INFN Genova and Università di Genova, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Dodecaneso 33, IT - 16146 Genova, Italy
17 University of Glasgow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
18 Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, CNRS-IN2P3, Universite Joseph Fourier, INPG, 53 avenue des Martyrs, FR - 38026 Grenoble Cedex, France
19 Hampton University, Department of Physics, Hampton, VA 23668, United States of America
20 Indiana University, Department of Physics, Swain Hall West, Room 117, 727 East Third St., Bloomington, IN 47405-7105, United States of America
21 Institut fuer Astro- und Teilchenphysik, Technikerstrasse 25, A - 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
22 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR Dubna, RU - 141 980 Moscow, Russia
23 KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305-0801, Japan
24 Kyoto University of Education, 1 Fukakusa, Fujimori, fushimi-ku, Kyoto-shi, JP - Kyoto 612-8522, Japan
25 Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Oxford Street, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom
26 Jožef Stefan Institute and Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
27 Department of Physics, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
28 Lunds Universitet, Fysiska Institutionen, Box 118, SE - 221 00 Lund, Sweden
29 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
30 INFN Milano and Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Celoria 16, IT - 20133 Milano, Italy
31 P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 53, RU - 117 924 Moscow, Russia
32 Moscow Engineering & Physics Institute (MEPhI), Kashirskoe Shosse 31, RU - 115409 Moscow, Russia
33 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, RU - 119 992 Moscow Lenskie gory 1, Russia
34 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, Germany
35 Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Kruislaan 409, P.O. Box 41882, NL - 1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
36 Okayama University, Faculty of Science, Tsushimanaka 3-1-1, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
37 LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, Orsay, France
38 Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Blindern, NO - 0316 Oslo 3, Norway
39 Department of Physics, Oxford University, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
40 University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics & Astronomy, 209 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America
41 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, RU - 188 300 Gatchina, Russia
42 Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, CZ - 18221 Praha 8, Czech Republic
43 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, V Holesovickach 2, CZ - 18000 Praha 8, Czech Republic
44 Czech Technical University in Prague, Zikova 4, CZ - 166 35 Praha 6, Czech Republic
45 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
46 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United States of America
47 University of Sheffield, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom
48 Insitute of Physics, Academia Sinica, TW - Taipei 11529, Taiwan
49 University of Tsukuba, Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba-shi, JP - Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
50 INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine and Università di Udine, Dipartimento di Fisica, via delle Scienze 208, IT - 33100 Udine and INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine and ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, IT - 34014 Trieste, Italy
51 Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Centro Mixto UVEG-CSIC, Apdo. 22085, ES-46071 Valencia; Dept. Física At., Mol. y Nuclear, Univ. of Valencia and Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM-CSIC), 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
52 University of British Columbia, Dept of Physics, 6224 Agricultural Road, CA - Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1, Canada
53 University of Wisconsin, Department of Physics, Madison, WI 53706, United States of America
54 Yale University, Department of Physics, PO Box 208121, New Haven, CT 06520-8121, United States of America
55 Currently at Gaziantep University, Turkey
56 Currently at Dogus University, Istanbul
57 also at H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow, Poland
The ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) Inner Detector provides charged particle tracking in the
centre of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The
Inner Detector consists of three subdetectors: the Pixel Detector,
the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT), and the Transition Radiation Tracker
(TRT). This paper summarizes the tests that were carried out at the
final stage of SCT+TRT integration prior to their installation in
ATLAS. The combined operation and performance of the SCT and TRT
barrel and endcap detectors was investigated through a series of noise
tests, and by recording the tracks of cosmic rays. This was a
crucial test of hardware and software of the combined tracker detector
systems. The results of noise and cross-talk tests on the SCT and TRT in
their final assembled configuration, using final readout and supply
hardware and software, are reported. The reconstruction and analysis of
the recorded cosmic tracks allowed testing of the offline analysis
chain and verification of basic tracker performance parameters, such as efficiency
and spatial resolution, in combined operation before installation.