Published March 19, 2010 | Version Published
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Alignment of the CMS silicon tracker during commissioning with cosmic rays

Abstract

The CMS silicon tracker, consisting of 1440 silicon pixel and 15 148 silicon strip detector modules, has been aligned using more than three million cosmic ray charged particles, with additional information from optical surveys. The positions of the modules were determined with respect to cosmic ray trajectories to an average precision of 3–4 microns RMS in the barrel and 3–14 microns RMS in the endcap in the most sensitive coordinate. The results have been validated by several studies, including laser beam cross-checks, track fit self-consistency, track residuals in overlapping module regions, and track parameter resolution, and are compared with predictions obtained from simulation. Correlated systematic effects have been investigated. The track parameter resolutions obtained with this alignment are close to the design performance.

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© 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA. Received: October 21, 2009; revised: November 22, 2009; accepted: December 21, 2009; published: March 19, 2010. We thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS Institutes, and acknowledge support from: FMSR (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); Academy of Sciences and NICPB (Estonia); Academy of Finland, ME, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF (Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); PAEC (Pakistan); SCSR (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MST and MAE (Russia); MSTDS (Serbia); MICINN and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie IEF program (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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Funding

FMSR (Austria)
FNRS (Belgium)
FWO (Belgium)
CNPq (Brazil)
CAPES (Brazil)
FAPERJ (Brazil)
FAPESP (Brazil)
MES (Bulgaria)
CERN (China)
CAS (China)
MoST (China)
NSFC (China)
COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
MSES (Croatia)
RPF (Cyprus)
Academy of Sciences (Estonia)
NICPB (Estonia)
Academy of Finland
ME (Finland)
HIP (Finland)
CEA (France)
CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
BMBF (Germany)
DFG (Germany)
HGF (Germany)
GSRT (Greece)
OTKA (Hungary)
NKTH (Hungary)
DAE (India)
DST (India)
IPM (Iran)
SFI (Ireland)
INFN (Italy)
NRF (Korea)
LAS (Lithuania)
CINVESTAV (Mexico)
CONACyT (Mexico)
SEP (Mexico)
UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
PAEC (Pakistan)
SCSR (Poland)
FCT (Portugal)
JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
MST (Russia)
MAE (Russia)
MSTDS (Serbia)
MICINN (Spain)
CPAN (Spain)
Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
NSC (Taipei)
TUBITAK (Turkey)
TAEK (Turkey)
STFC (United Kingdom)
Department of Energy (DOE)
NSF
Marie-Curie IEF program (European Union)
Leventis Foundation
A. P. Sloan Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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