PT Journal
AU ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Community (Abdallah, Jea
   Calderon, D
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Costelo, J
   Ferrer, A
   Fullana, E
   Gonzalez, V
   Higon-Rodriguez, E
   Poveda, J
   Ruiz, A
   Salvachua, B
   Sanchis, E
   Solans, C
   Torres, J
   Valero, A
   Valls Ferrer, JA
TI Mechanical construction and installation of the ATLAS tile calorimeter
SO Journal of Instrumentation
JI J. Instrum.
PY 2013
BP T11001 - 26pp
VL 8
DI 10.1088/1748-0221/8/11/T11001
LA English
DE Detector design and construction technologies and materials; Calorimeters
AB This paper summarises the mechanical construction and installation of the Tile Calorimeter for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Switzerland. The Tile Calorimeter is a sampling calorimeter using scintillator as the sensitive detector and steel as the absorber and covers the central region of the ATLAS experiment up to pseudorapidities +/- 1.7. The mechanical construction of the Tile Calorimeter occurred over a period of about 10 years beginning in 1995 with the completion of the Technical Design Report and ending in 2006 with the installation of the final module in the ATLAS cavern. During this period approximately 2600 metric tons of steel were transformed into a laminated structure to form the absorber of the sampling calorimeter. Following instrumentation and testing, which is described elsewhere, the modules were installed in the ATLAS cavern with a remarkable accuracy for a structure of this size and weight.
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