Mullier, Geoffrey; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Meloni, Federico; Cervelli, Alberto; Beck, Hans Peter; Stucci, Stefania; Ereditato, Antonio (2016). Beam-induced and cosmic-ray backgrounds observed in the ATLAS detector during the LHC 2012 proton-proton running period. Journal of instrumentation, 11(05), P05013-P05013. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1748-0221/11/05/P05013
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This paper discusses various observations on beam-induced and cosmic-ray backgrounds in the ATLAS detector during the LHC 2012 proton-proton run. Building on published results based on 2011 data, the correlations between background and residual pressure of the beam vacuum are revisited. Ghost charge evolution over 2012 and its role for backgrounds are evaluated. New methods to monitor ghost charge with beam-gas rates are presented and observations of LHC abort gap population by ghost charge are discussed in detail. Fake jets from colliding bunches and from ghost charge are analysed with improved methods, showing that ghost charge in individual radio-frequency buckets of the LHC can be resolved. Some results of two short periods of dedicated cosmic-ray background data-taking are shown; in particular cosmic-ray muon induced fake jet rates are compared to Monte Carlo simulations and to the fake jet rates from beam background. A thorough analysis of a particular LHC fill, where abnormally high background was observed, is presented. Correlations between backgrounds and beam intensity losses in special fills with very high β* are studied.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Haug, Sigve, Weber, Michele, Beck, Hans Peter |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics 500 Science > 510 Mathematics |
ISSN: |
1748-0221 |
Publisher: |
Institute of Physics Publishing IOP |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Annette Krebs-Wegenast |
Date Deposited: |
07 Aug 2017 17:06 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:05 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1088/1748-0221/11/05/P05013 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt. |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.99965 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/99965 |
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