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Performance and operation experience of the Atlas Semiconductor Tracker

Zhijun Liang
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We report on the operation and performance of the ATLAS Semi-Conductor Tracker (SCT), which has been functioning for 3 years in the high luminosity, high radiation environment of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. We also report on the few improvements of the SCT foreseen for the high energy run of the LHC. We find $99.3\%$ of the SCT modules are operational, the noise occupancy and hit efficiency exceed the design specifications; the alignment is very close to the ideal to allow on-line track reconstruction and invariant mass determination. We will report on the operation and performance of the detector including an overview of the issues encountered. We observe a significant increase in leakage currents from bulk damage due to non-ionizing radiation and make comparisons with the predictions.

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Zhijun Liang. 2014-02-26. Performance and operation experience of the Atlas Semiconductor Tracker. https://doi.org/10.1142/s2010194514602956

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