Performance of the CMS cathode strip chambers with cosmic rays
2010, Journal of Instrumentation
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/5/03/T03018Abstract
Performance of the CMS cathode strip chambers with cosmic rays CMS Collaboration ABSTRACT: The Cathode Strip Chambers (CSCs) constitute the primary muon tracking device in the CMS endcaps. Their performance has been evaluated using data taken during a cosmic ray run in fall 2008. Measured noise levels are low, with the number of noisy channels well below 1%. Coordinate resolution was measured for all types of chambers, and fall in the range 47 µm to 243 µm. The efficiencies for local charged track triggers, for hit and for segments reconstruction were measured, and are above 99%. The timing resolution per layer is approximately 5 ns.
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- M. Anderson, M. Bachtis, J.N. Bellinger, D. Carlsmith, I. Crotty 1 , S. Dasu, S. Dutta, J. Efron, F. Feyzi, K. Flood, L. Gray, K.S. Grogg, M. Grothe, R. Hall-Wilton 1 , M. Jaworski, P. Klabbers, J. Klukas, A. Lanaro, C. Lazaridis, J. Leonard, R. Loveless, M. Magrans de Abril, A. Mohapatra, G. Ott, G. Polese, D. Reeder, A. Savin, W.H. Smith, A. Sourkov 40 , J. Swanson, M. Weinberg, D. Wenman, M. Wensveen, A. White †: Deceased 1: Also at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland 2: Also at Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil 3: Also at Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland 4: Also at Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France 5: Also at Centre de Calcul de l'Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3), Villeurbanne, France 6: Also at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 7: Also at Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary 8: Also at University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, U.S.A. 9: Also at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research -HECR, Mumbai, India 10: Also at University of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India 11: Also at Facolta' Ingegneria Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy 12: Also at Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy 13: Also at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro dell' INFN, Legnaro, Italy 14: Also at Università di Trento, Trento, Italy 15: Also at ENEA -Casaccia Research Center, S. Maria di Galeria, Italy 16: Also at Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland 17: Also at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A. 18: Also at Faculty of Physics of University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 19: Also at Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Palaiseau, France 20: Also at Alstom Contracting, Geneve, Switzerland 21: Also at Scuola Normale e Sezione dell' INFN, Pisa, Italy 22: Also at University of Athens, Athens, Greece 23: Also at The University of Kansas, Lawrence, U.S.A. 24: Also at Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia 25: Also at Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland 26: Also at Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia 27: Also at University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. 28: Also at Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey 29: Also at Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey 30: Also at Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey 31: Also at Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey 32: Also at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey 33: Also at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom 34: Also at INFN Sezione di Perugia; Universita di Perugia, Perugia, Italy 35: Also at KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary 36: Also at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey 37: Also at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A. 38: Also at Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia 39: Also at Texas A&M University, College Station, U.S.A. 40: Also at State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia