A quality assurance and quality control (QA_QC) procedure of the monitored drift tubes (MDT) for the BIS-chambers of the ATLAS muon spectrometer

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 II, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2484-2487

  Alexopoulos, Theodoros ^a   Avramidou, Rachel ^a   Dris, Manolis ^a   Filippas, Tassos A ^a   Gazis, Evangelos N ^a   Katsoufis, Elias C ^a   Maltezos, Stavros ^a   Savva, Panagiota ^a   Stavropoulos, George ^b   Tsipolitis, Georgios ^a   Tzamariudaki, Ekaterini ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ATLAS; Gas detectors; Muon spectrometer; Particle detectors; Quality control

Indexed keywords

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; PROTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; TENSILE TESTING;

ANODE WIRE MECHANICAL TENSION; DARK CURRENT; MONITORED DRIFT TUBES; MUON SPECTROMETER;

DRIFT CHAMBERS;

EID: 0036815730     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803885     Document Type: Article

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