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Paper   IPM / Particles And Accelerator / 11415
School of Particles and Accelerator
  Title:   Aligning the CMS Muon Chambers with the Muon Alignment System during an Extended Cosmic Ray Run
  Author(s): 
1.  Hessamaddin Arfaei
2.  Hamed Bakhshiansohi
3.  Ali Fahim
4.  Abideh Jafari
5.  Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi
6.  Ahmad Moshaii
7.  Saeid Paktinat
8.  Shahin Rouhani
9.  Batool Safarzadeh
10.  Maryam Zeinali
  Status:   Published
  Journal: JINST
  Year:  2010
  Pages:   35
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
The alignment system for the muon spectrometer of the CMS detector comprises three independent subsystems of optical and analog position sensors. It aligns muon chambers with respect to each other and to the central silicon tracker. System commissioning at full magnetic field began in 2008 during an extended cosmic ray run. The system succeeded in tracking muon detector movements of up to 18 mm and rotations of several milliradians under magnetic forces. Depending on coordinate and subsystem, the system achieved chamber alignment precisions of 140-350 microns and 30-200 microradians, close to the precision requirements of the experiment. Systematic errors on absolute positions are estimated to be 340-590 microns based on comparisons with independent photogrammetry measurements.

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