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AT THE LEADING EDGE
The ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments
edited by Dan Green (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
USA)
448pp
978-981-4304-67-2(pbk): US$58 / £38 US$43.50
/ £28.50
978-981-4277-61-7: US$120 / £79 US$90 /
£59.25
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Table
of Contents (30k)
Chapter
1: Introduction: How Physics Defines The LHC Environment and Detectors
(1,097k)
"This book follows a new concept,
which makes it unique and interesting to read ... The actual
technological choices made by the collaborations to address the physics
at the LHC are outlined by subsequent well-written and illustrated
contributions from 22 prominent scientists, engineers, experts and
leaders responsible for the detector subsystems of ATLAS and CMS. The
book contributes in an impressive way towards understanding the
motivation behind specific choices, and towards learning about the
risks and the courage required to tackle necessary technological
developments ... this book should be on the shelf of all friends of the
LHC. It represents a nicely balanced record of the historical
developments, technical challenges and scientific background, and
packed with photos of the LHC machine and its two major general-purpose
detectors, ATLAS and CMS, taken during construction and assembly."
-- CERN Courier
Too often descriptions of detectors focus on the "what" and
not the "why". This volume aims to elucidate how the requirements of
the physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) define the detector
environment. In turn, the detector choices are made to adopt to that
environment. The goal of LHC physics is to explore the mechanism for
electroweak symmetry breaking. Because of the minuscule cross-sections
which need to be explored, 0.1 fb, the LHC needs to provide 100 fb-1/yr,
or an instantaneous luminosity of 1034 / (cm2 sec). With a bunch
crossing interval of 25 nsec, well matched to detector speeds, there
will be 25 events occupying each bunch crossing.
Thus the physics requires fast, finely segmented, low noise
and radiation resistant detectors which provide redundant measurements
of the rarely produced electrons and muons. To achieve those goals, new
ground was broken in constructing the A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (ATLAS)
and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detectors in the vertex detectors,
tracking systems, calorimetry, strong magnets, muon systems, front end
electronics, trigger systems, and in the data acquisition methods used.
Contents:
- Introduction: How Physics Defines the LHC
Environment and Detectors (D Green)
- The CMS Pixel Detector (W Erdmann)
- The Hybrid Tracking System of ATLAS (L
Rossi)
- The All-Silicon Strip CMS Tracker:
Microtechnology at the Macroscale (M Mannelli)
- The ATLAS Electromagnetic Calorimeters:
Features and Performance (L Mandelli)
- The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter: Crystals
and APD Productions (P Bloch)
- ATLAS Electronics: An Overview (P Farthouat)
- Innovations in the CMS Tracker Electronics (G
Hall)
- TileCal: The Hadronic Section of the Central
ATLAS Calorimeter (K Anderson et al.)
- Innovations for the CMS HCAL (J Freeman)
- ATLAS Superconducting Toroids — The Largest
Ever Built (H H J ten Kate)
- Constructing a 4-Tesla Large Thin Solenoid at
the Limit of What Can Be Safely Operated (A Herv¨¦)
- The ATLAS Muon Spectrometer (G Mikenberg)
- The CMS Muon Detector: From the First Thoughts
to the Final Design (F Gasparini)
- The Why and How of the ATLAS Data Acquisition
System (L Mapelli & G Mornacchi)
- Removing the Haystack — The CMS Trigger and
Data Acquisition Systems (V O'Dell )
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