@article{a9d9d0b065dd43fc87d5c12a91667c8f,
title = "A muon identification and combined reconstruction procedure for the ATLAS detector at the LHC at CERN",
abstract = "Muon identification (MUID) and high-momentum measurement accuracy is crucial to fully exploit the physics potential that will be accessible with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The muon energy of physics interest ranges in a large interval from few GeV, where the b-physics studies dominate the physics program, up to the highest values that could indicate the presence of new physics. The muon detection system of the ATLAS detector is characterized by two high-precision tracking systems, namely the inner detector (ID) and the muon spectrometer, (MS) plus a thick calorimeter that ensures a safe hadron absorption filtering with high-purity muons with energy above 3 GeV. In order to combine the muon tracks reconstructed in the ID and the MS, a MUID object-oriented software package has been developed. The purpose of the MUID procedure is to associate tracks found in the MS with the corresponding ID track and calorimeter information in order to identify muons at their production vertex with optimum parameter resolution. The performance of these two combined systems has been evaluated with Monte Carlo studies using single muons of fixed-transverse momentum and with full physics events.",
author = "Th Lagouri and D. Adams and K. Assamagan and M. Biglietti and G. Carlino and G. Cataldi and F. Conventi and A. Farilla and Y. Fisyak and S. Goldfarb and E. Gorini and K. Mair and L. Merola and A. Nairz and A. Poppleton and M. Primavera and S. Rosati and J. Shank and S. Spagnolo and L. Spogli and G. Stavropoulos and M. Verducci and T. Wenaus",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received October 30, 2003; revised May 19, 2004 and September 8, 2004. This work was supported in part by the EU-FP5 Program: “Improving Human Research Potential and the Socio-economic Knowledge Base,” Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (HPMF-CT-2002-02102). Th. Lagouri is with the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece (e-mail: theodota.lagouri@cern.ch). J. Shank is with Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA. D. Adams, K. Assamagan, Y. Fisyak, and T. Wenaus are with Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000 USA. K. Mair, A. Nairz, A. Poppleton, and S. Rosati are with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. L. Spogli is with INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy. G. Stavropoulos is with the University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. G. Cataldi, E. Gorini, M. Primavera, and S. Spagnolo are with INFN and University of Lecce, Lecce, Italy. S. Goldfarb is with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA. M. Biglietti, G. Carlino, F. Conventi, and L. Merola are with INFN and University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy. A. Farilla and M. Verducci are with INFN and University of Roma Tre E. Amaldi, Rome, Italy. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TNS.2004.839102",
year = "2004",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1109/TNS.2004.839102",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "51",
pages = "3030--3033",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science",
issn = "0018-9499",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "6 I",
}