Luminosity Monitoring in ATLAS with MPX Detectors
Date
26.11.2013 14:00
Speaker
Dr. Andre Sopczak
| Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague
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Abstract
The ATLAS-MPX detectors are based on the Medipix2 silicon devices designed by CERN for the detection of multiple types of radiation. Sixteen such detectors were successfully operated in the ATLAS detector at the LHC and collected data independently of the ATLAS data-recording chain from 2008 to 2013. Each ATLAS-MPX detector provides separate measurements of the bunch-integrated LHC luminosity. An internal consistency for luminosity monitoring of about 2% was demonstrated. In addition, the MPX devices close to the beam are sensitive enough to provide relative-luminosity measurements during van der Meer calibration scans, in a low-luminosity regime that lies below the sensitivity of the ATLAS calorimeter-based bunch-integrating luminometers. Results from the MPX luminosity studies are presented for 2012 data taken at sqrt(s)=8 TeV proton-proton collisions.