The ATLAS muon micromegas R&D project: Towards large-size chambers for the s-LHC

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Alexopoulos, T ^a   Altintas, A ^b   Alviggi, M ^c   Arik, M ^b   Cetin, A ^d   Chernyatine, V ^e   Cheu, E ^f   Della Volpe, D ^c   Dris, M ^a   Fassouliotis, D ^g   Gazis, N ^a   Giordano, R ^c   Gratchev, V ^h   Guan, L ⁱ   Iengo, P ^j   Ioannou, P ^g   Li, C ⁱ   Johns, K ^f   Kaushik, V ^f   Khodinov, A ^k   Kourkoumelis, C ^g   Maltezos, S ^a   Mermigka, K ^a   Muller H ^l   Nikolopoulos, K ^e,g   Park, W ^m   Persembe, S ^b   Petridou, C ⁿ   Petti, R ^m   Polychronakos, V ^e   Purohit, V ^m   Sampsonidis, D ⁿ   Sekhniaidze, G ^c   Shao, M ⁱ   Sun, J ⁱ   Tsipolitis, G ^a   Veenhof, R ^o   Wang, L ⁱ   Wotschack, J ^l   Wu, X ⁱ   Zhao, T ^p   Zhao, G ⁱ   more..

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d DOGUS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^h PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^j CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^k STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l CERN   (Switzerland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

ⁿ ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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Author keywords

Muon spectrometers; Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC, GEM, THGEM, RETHGEM, MICROMEGAS, InGrid, etc); Particle tracking detectors (Gaseous detectors); Trigger detetectors

Indexed keywords

ATLAS MUON SPECTROMETER; BASELINE SYSTEMS; GASEOUS DETECTORS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MECHANICAL ROBUSTNESS; MICRO PATTERN; POSITION RESOLUTION; TRIGGER DETETECTORS;

GAS DETECTORS; SPECIFICATIONS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 76249110693     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/4/12/P12015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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