@article{3074192,
    title = "System test of the ATLAS muon spectrometer in the H8 beam at the CERN SPS",
    author = "Adorisio, C. and Aielli, G. and Alexopoulos, T. and Amaral, P. and Amelung, C. and Avolio, G. and Avramidou, R. and Bagnaia, P. and Barisonzi, M. and Barone, M. and Bauer, F. and Benhammou, I. and Bensinger, J. and Beretta, M. and Bobbink, G. and Borisov, A. and Boterenbrood, H. and Boyko, I. and Braccini, S. and Branchini, P. and Bressler, S. and Canale, V. and Caprio, M. and Cardarelli, R. and Cataldi, G. and Cerutti, F. and Chapman, J. and Chelkov, G. and Chiodini, G. and Ciapetti, G. and Cirilli, M. and Dedovich, D. and Della Pietra, M. and Della Volpe, D. and De Asmundis, R. and Di Ciaccio, A. and Di Domenico, A. and Di Simone, A. and Dubbert, J. and Etzion, E. and Fakhrutdinov, R. and Falciano, S. and Ferrari, R. and Formica, A. and Fukunaga, C. and Gaudio, G. and Gazis, E. and Giraud, P.F. and Gorini, E. and Grancagnolo, F. and Gregory, J. and Groenstege, H. and Guyot, C. and Harel, A. and Hart, R. and Hashemi, K. and Hassani, S. and Horvat, S. and Ichimiya, R. and Iengo, P. and Ikeno, M. and Ioannou, P. and Iodice, M. and Ishino, M. and Kataoka, Y. and Konig, A. and Kortner, O. and Kourkoumelis, C. and Kozhin, A. and Kroha, H. and Krumshteyn, Z. and Kurashige, H. and Lacava, F. and Lancon, E. and Lanza, A. and Laporte, J.F. and Lellouch, D. and Levin, D. and Levinson, L. and Lifshitz, R. and Linde, F. and Luci, C. and Lupu, N. and Maccarrone, G. and Maeno, T. and Mair, K. and Maltezos, S. and Manz, A. and Meoni, E. and Mikenberg, G. and Mockett, P. and Mohrdieck-Moeck, S. and Nagano, K. and Nikolaev, K. and Nikolaidou, R. and Nisati, A. and Nomoto, H. and Orestano, D. and Palestini, S. and Pasqualucci, E. and Pastore, F. and Perrino, R. and Petrucci, F. and Polesello, G. and Policicchio, A. and Pomarede, D. and Ponsot, P. and Pontecorvo, L. and Primavera, M. and Rauscher, F. and Rebuzzi, D. and Richter, R. and Rosati, S. and Rothberg, J. and Sakamoto, H. and Santonico, R. and Sasaki, O. and Schricker, A. and Schuler, G. and Schune, P. and Spagnolo, S. and Spiwoks, R. and Staude, A. and Stavropoulos, G. and Sugaya, Y. and Tanaka, S. and Tarem, S. and Thun, R. and Trigger, I. and Tsipolitis, G. and Valderanis, C. and Valente, P. and Vandelli, W. and Vari, R. and Veneziano, S. and Vermeulen, J. and Wengler, T. and Werneke, P. and Wijnen, T. and Wolter, M. and Woudstra, M. and Yasu, Y. and Zema, P.F. and Zhao, Z. and Zhemchugov, A. and Zhou, B. and van Eldik, N. and van der Graaf, H.",
    journal = "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment",
    year = "2008",
    volume = "593",
    number = "3",
    pages = "232-254",
    doi = "10.1016/j.nima.2008.05.027",
    keywords = "Alignment;  Drift chambers;  Particle detectors;  Particle spectrometers;  Spectrometry;  Testing;  Thickness measurement;  Tubes (components), Atlas muon spectrometer;  beam lines;  Elsevier (CO);  Monitored drift tube (MDT);  Muon spectrometers;  Muon triggers;  Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC);  system aspects;  system testing;  Thin gap chambers (TGC);  trigger chambers, Spectrometers",
    abstract = "We describe a system test of the ATLAS muon spectrometer performed at the H8 beam line of the CERN Super-Proton-Synchrotron (SPS) during 2003. The setup includes one barrel tower made of six Monitored Drift Tube chambers equipped with an alignment system and four Resistive Plate Chambers, and one end-cap octant consisting of six end-cap MDT equipped with an alignment system and one triplet and two doublets of Thin Gap Chambers. Many system aspects of the muon spectrometer have been studied with this setup, from the performance of the precision and trigger chambers to the capability to align the precision chambers at the level of a few tens of micrometers and to operate the muon trigger at the crossing frequency of the LHC. © 2008 Elsevier B.V."
}