Performance of the LHCb Muon system with cosmic rays

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Anelli, M ^a   Nobrega, R Antunes ^b   Auriemma, G ^b,c   Baldini, W ^d   Bencivenni, G ^a   Berutti, R ^e,f   Bocci, V ^b   Bondar, N ^g   Bonivento, W ^e   Botchin, B ^g   Cadeddu, S ^e   Campana, P ^a   Carboni, G ^b,i   Cardini, A ^e   Carletti, M ^a   Ciambrone, P ^a   Dane, E ^a   De Capua, S ^b,t   Deplano, C ^e   De Simone, P ^a   Dettori, F ^e,f   Falabella, A ^e,h   Rodriguez, F Ferreira ^j   Frosini, M ^k,l   Furcas, S ^a,m   Graziani, G ^k   Gruber, L ^n,o   Kashchuk, A ^g   Lai, A ^e   Lanfranchi, G ^a   Lenzi, M ^k   Levitskaya, O ^g   Mair, K ⁿ   Maev, O ^g   Manca, G ^e   Martellotti, G ^b   Rodrigues, A Massafferri ^i,p   Messi, R ^b,i   Murtas, F ^a   Neustroev, P ^g   Oldeman, R G C ^e,f   Palutan, M ^a   Passaleva, G ^k   Penso, G ^b,q   Petrella, A ^d,h   Pinci, D ^b   Pozzi, S ^d,k   Sabatino, G ^b,i   Saitta, B ^e,f   Santacesaria, R ^b   Santovetti, E ^b,i   Saputi, A ^a   Sarti, A ^a   Satriano, C ^b,c   Satta, A ^b   Savrie M ^d,h   Schmidt, B ⁿ   Schneider, T ⁿ   Sciubba, A ^a,q   Shatalov, P ^r   Vecchi, S ^d   Veltri, M ^k,s   Volkov, S ^g   Vorobyevg, A ^g   more..

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^e SEZIONE DI CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^g PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^j FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^k INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^m INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

ⁿ CERN   (Switzerland)

^o VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^p CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

^q SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^r INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^s UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^t EPFL   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Muon spectrometers; Trigger detectors; Wire chambers(MWPC, thin gap chambers, drift chambers, drift tubes, proportional chambers etc)

Indexed keywords

CHAMBER EFFICIENCY; CLUSTER SIZES; DETECTOR CONFIGURATION; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; DRIFT TUBE; MUON SPECTROMETER; SPACE AND TIME; TIME RESOLUTION;

COSMIC RAYS; DRIFT CHAMBERS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

EID: 78349260833     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/5/10/P10003     Document Type: Article

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