Design and performance of the alignment system for the CMS Muon Endcaps

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 489-495

  Hohlmann, Marcus ^a,b   Baksay, Gyöngyi ^b   Browngold, Max ^b   Dehmelt, Klaus ^b   Guragain, Samir ^b   Andreev, Valéry ^c   Yang, Xiaofeng ^c   Bellinger, James ^d   Carlsmith, Duncan ^d   Feyzi, Farshid ^d   Loveless, Richard J ^d   Northaeker, David ^d   Case, Michael ^e   Eartly, David P ^f   Prokofiev, Oleg ^f   Sknar, Vladimir ^g   Sytnik, Valeri ^h  

^a IEEE

^b Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; OPTICAL SENSORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ALIGNMENT SYSTEM; CATHODE STRIP CHAMBERS; DISK DEFORMATIONS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 38649088633     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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