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The CMS tracker operation and performance at the Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge
W Adam, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, S Hänsel, J Hrubec, M Krammer, M Pernicka, W Waltenberger, E Widl, P Van Mechelen, M Cardaci, W Beaumont, E de Langhe, E A de Wolf, E Delmeire, O Bouhali, O Charaf, B Clerbaux, J -P Dewulf, S Elgammal, G Hammad, G de Lentdecker, P Marage, C Vander Velde, P Vanlaer, J Wickens, O Devroede, S De Weirdt, J D'Hondt, R Goorens, J Heyninck, J Maes, S Tavernier, L Van Lancker, P Van Mulders, I Villella, S Assouak, J -L Bonnet, G Bruno, B De Callatay, S De Visscher, D Favart, B Florins, E Forton, A Giammanco, G Gregoire, S. Kalinin, D. Kcira, Th Keutgen, V Lemaitre, D Michotte, O Militaru, S Ovyn, K Piotrzkowski, X Rouby, D Teyssier, O Van der Aa, E Daubie, E Anttila, S Czellar, J Härkönen, V Karimäki, T Lampén, T Lindén, P -R Luukka, T Mäenpää, E Tuominen, J Tuominiemi, G Boudoul, E Chabanat, E Chabert, R Chierici, D Contardo, N Estre, R Haroutunian, N Lumb, S Perries, B Trocme, J -L Agram, R Blaes, F Drouhin, J -C Fontaine, J -D Berst, J -M Brom, U Goerlach, P Graehling, L Gross, J Hosselet, P Juillot, C Maazouzi, C Ollivetto, P Van Hove, G Anagnostou, R Brauer, H Esser, L Feld, W Karpinski, K Klein, C Kukulies, J Olzem, A Ostapchuk, D Pandoulas, G Pierschel, F Raupach, S Schael, G Schwering, M Thomas, M Weber, B Wittmer, M Wlochal, F Beissel, E Bock, G Flugge, T Hermanns, D Heydhausen, D Jahn, G Kaussen, A Linn, L Perchalla, M Poettgens, O Pooth, A Stahl, M H Zoeller, E Butz, S Fricke, G Flucke, R Klanner, U Pein, P Schleper, G Steinbr_ck, P Blüm, W De Boer, A Dierlamm, G Dirkes, M Fahrer, M Frey, A Furgeri, F Hartmann, S Heier, K -H Hoffmann, B Ledermann, T Liamsuwan, S Müller, T Müller, A.U. Scheurer, F -P Schilling, H -J Simonis, V Zhukov, G De Robertis, L Fiore, L Silvestris, P Tempesta, G Zito, D Creanza, N De Filippis, M De Palma, D Giordano, G Maggi, N Manna, S My, V Radicci, G Selvaggi, S Albergo, M Chiorboli, S Costa, M Galanti, F Noto, R Potenza, M A Saizu, C Sutera, A Tricomi, C Tuvé, C Civinini, F Manolescu, M Meschini, S Paoletti, G Sguazzoni, B Broccolo, V Ciulli, R D'Alessandro, E Focardi, S Frosali, C Genta, G Landi, P Lenzi, A Macchiolo, N Magini, S Mersi, G Parrini, P Azzi, N Bacchetta, A Candelori, T Dorigo, A Kaminsky, D Bisello, M De Mattia, P Giubilato, V Khomenkov, M Loreti, S Mattiazzo, M Nigro, A Paccagnella, M Tosi, G M Bilei, B Checcucci, L Fanò, L Servoli, F Ambroglini, E Babucci, D Benedetti, M Biasini, B Caponeri, R Covarelli, M Giorgi, P Lariccia, G Mantovani, M Marcantonini, V Postolache, A Santocchia, D Spiga, G Bagliesi, T Boccali, F Bosi, R Castaldi, C Cerri, R Dell'Orso, D Dobur, S Dutta, A Giassi, A C Kraan, T Lomtadze, G Magazzu, G Martinelli, A Moggi, F Palla, F Palmonari, F Raffaelli, G Sanguinetti, S Sarkar, A T Serban, P Spagnolo, R Tenchini, A Venturi, P G Verdini, M Vos, A Basti, L Benucci, J Bernardini, L Borrello, F Fiori, S Linari, M Massa, A Messineo, G Segneri, G Tonelli, P Azzurri, A Bocci, L Foa, S Gennai, F Ligabue, B Mangano, G Petrucciani, A Rizzi, N Demaria, M A Borgia, R Castello, M Costa, E Migliore, A Romero, D Abbaneo, I Ahmed, C Bloch, H Breuker, O Buchmuller, A Cattai, C Delaere, L M Edera, M Eppard, K Gill, A -S Giolo-Nicollerat, R Grabit, A Honma, M Huhtinen, K Kloukinas, C Ljuslin, M Mannelli, L Masetti, A Marchioro, S Michal, L Mirabito, A Onnela, C Paillard, I Pal, P Petagna, M Pioppi, H Postema, R Ranieri, D Ricci, G Rolandi, F Ronga, P Siegrist, P Tropea, J Troska, A Tsirou, M Vander Donckt, F Vasey, I Church, J Cole, J Coughlan, A Gay, S Taghavi, I Tomalin, R Bainbridge, N Cripps, J Fulcher, G Hall, M Noy, M Pesaresi, V Radicci, D M Raymond, A Rose, P Sharp, M Stoye, M Wingham, O Zorba, I Goitom, P R Hobson, I Reid, L Teodorescu, M Bose, G Hanson, G-Y Jeng, H Liu, G Pasztor, A Satpathy, R Stringer, C Campagnari, M D'Alfonso, J Garberson, J Incandela, P Kalavase, D Kovalskyi, S Kyre, J Lamb, S Lowette, F Rebassoo, J Ribnik, J Richman, R Rossin, D Stuart, S Swain, J -R Vlimant, D White, S.R. Wagner, L Bagby, P Bhat, K Burkett, O Gutsche, H Jensen, M Johnson, D Mason, T Miao, C Noeding, E Skup, W Spalding, L Spiegel, S Tkaczyk, F Yumiceva, I Anghel, V E Bazterra, C E Gerber, S Khalatian, E Shabalina, P Baringer, A Bean, J Chen, T Moulik, T. Bolton, D. Onoprienko, Z. Wan, A Gritsan, C K Lae, N Tran, P Everaerts, K A Hahn, P Harris, S Nahn, M Rudolph, C Roland, K Sung, B Betchart, R Demina, Y Gotra, S Korjenevski, D Miner, D Orbaker, L Christofek, R Hooper, G Landsberg, D Nguyen, M Narain, T Speer and K V Tsang
Published 18 July 2008 •
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Instrumentation,
Volume 3,
July 2008Citation W Adam et al 2008 JINST3 P07006DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/3/07/P07006
During summer 2006 a fraction of the CMS silicon strip tracker was
operated in a comprehensive slice test called the Magnet Test and
Cosmic Challenge (MTCC). At the MTCC, cosmic rays detected in the muon
chambers were used to trigger the readout of all CMS sub-detectors in
the general data acquisition system and in the presence of the 4 T
magnetic field produced by the CMS superconducting solenoid. This
document describes the operation of the Tracker hardware and software
prior, during and after data taking. The performance of the detector
as resulting from the MTCC data analysis is also presented.
