Event-by-event estimate of muon energy loss in ATLAS

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1792-1796

  Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Fassouliotis, Dimitrios ^a   Kourkoumelis, Christine ^a   Poppleton, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ATLAS; Energy loss; LHC; Muon reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; MOMENTUM; SPECTROMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATLAS; MUON RECONSTRUCTION; MUON SPECTROMETERS;

ENERGY DISSIPATION;

EID: 35348971016     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.905157     Document Type: Article

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