@article{f6bb9fa7d041443a9e0a811a93bd3172,
title = "Commissioning of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer with cosmic rays",
abstract = "The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider has collected several hundred million cosmic ray events during 2008 and 2009. These data were used to commission the Muon Spectrometer and to study the performance of the trigger and tracking chambers, their alignment, the detector control system, the data acquisition and the analysis programs. We present the performance in the relevant parameters that determine the quality of the muon measurement. We discuss the single element efficiency, resolution and noise rates, the calibration method of the detector response and of the alignment system, the track reconstruction efficiency and the momentum measurement. The results show that the detector is close to the design performance and that the Muon Spectrometer is ready to detect muons produced in high energy proton-proton collisions.",
author = "{The ATLAS collaboration} and G. Aad and B. Abbott and J. Abdallah and Abdelalim, {A. A.} and A. Abdesselam and O. Abdinov and B. Abi and M. Abolins and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and Acharya, {B. S.} and Adams, {D. L.} and Addy, {T. N.} and J. Adelman and C. Adorisio and P. Adragna and T. Adye and S. Aefsky and Aguilar-Saavedra, {J. A.} and M. Aharrouche and Ahlen, {S. P.} and F. Ahles and A. Ahmad and H. Ahmed and M. Ahsan and G. Aielli and T. Akdogan and {\AA}kesson, {T. P.A.} and G. Akimoto and Akimov, {A. V.} and A. Aktas and Alam, {M. S.} and Alam, {M. A.} and S. Albrand and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, {I. N.} and C. Alexa and G. Alexander and G. Alexandre and T. Alexopoulos and M. Alhroob and M. Aliev and G. Alimonti and J. Alison and M. Aliyev and Allport, {P. P.} and Allwood-Spiers, {S. E.} and J. Almond and A. Aloisio and Lee, {J. S.H.}",
year = "2010",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1415-2",
language = "English",
volume = "70",
pages = "875--916",
journal = "European Physical Journal C",
issn = "1434-6044",
publisher = "Institute for Ionics",
number = "3",
}