ATLAS - TileCal operations

The TileCal group at IFIC-Valencia has been responsible for the design, certification, installation and maintenance of the Read Out Drivers electronic boards (RODs) for the Hadronic Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector. 

The group has also built 50% of the Hadronic Calorimeter detector modules for one of the extended barrels of the detector.

A photomultiplier test bench setup was also installed at IFIC-Valencia laboratory to characterize and certify more than 1750 photomultiplier tubes of the Hadronic Calorimeter. This corresponds to 17.5% of the total 10000 photomultipliers the detector is equipped with. 

The activities of the group center on the development and maintenance of the TileCal ROD system. A total of 32 RODs have been installed in the ATLAS electronics cavern. The group has participated in the analysis of the data taken in test beams, system tests and data taking during the three LHC runs. In adition, our group has implemented the algorithms used to online reconstruct the LHC data within the TileCal ROD.