ATLAS Detector Commissioning with Photons

An intense commissioning activity of the ATLAS detector has preceded the LHC beam start up. Both cosmics events and in earlier periods test beam events have been utilized. The commission- ing of the ATLAS detector using photons has been an integral part of this effort. In this paper we present the results of these activities following a discussion of the reconstruction of photons in the ATLAS detector

Photon Commissioning in ATLAS

This is a presentation describing the commissioning of the ATLAS detector using photons. Expected performances are presented, together with recent results from cosmics data taken in 2008

Focus Issue Editorial: Synthetic Biology.

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Mobility of thorium ions in liquid xenon

We present a measurement of the $^{226}$Th ion mobility in LXe at 163.0 K and 0.9 bar. The result obtained, 0.240$\pm$0.011 (stat) $\pm$0.011 (syst) cm$^{2}$/(kV-s), is compared with a popular model of ion transport.Comment: 6.5 pages,

ATLAS Detector Paper Back-Up Note: Electrons and Photons

This is the supporting note to the ATLAS Detector paper for electron and photon reconstruction with the Inner Detector. It describes the software used to produce the results presented in the ATLAS Detector paper

Investigation of radioactivity-induced backgrounds in EXO-200

The search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0{\nu}{\beta}{\beta}) requires extremely low background and a good understanding of their sources and their influence on the rate in the region of parameter space relevant to the 0{\nu}{\beta}{\beta} signal. We report on studies of various {\beta}- and {\gamma}-backgrounds in the liquid- xenon-based EXO-200 0{\nu}{\beta}{\beta} experiment. With this work we try to better understand the location and strength of specific background sources and compare the conclusions to radioassay results taken before and during detector construction. Finally, we discuss the implications of these studies for EXO-200 as well as for the next-generation, tonne-scale nEXO detector.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, 3 table