Commissioning studies of the CMS hadron calorimeter have identified sporadic uncharacteristic noise and a small number of malfunctioning calorimeter channels. Algorithms have been developed to identify and address these problems in the data. The methods have been tested on cosmic ray muon data, calorimeter noise data, and single beam data collected with CMS in 2008. The noise rejection algorithms can be applied to LHC collision data at the trigger level or in the offline analysis. The application of the algorithms at the trigger level is shown to remove 90% of noise events with fake missing transverse energy above 100 GeV, which is sufficient for the CMS physics trigger operation.
The amplitude of the signal collected from the PbWO£ crystals of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter is reconstructed by a digital filtering technique. The amplitude reconstruction has been studied with test beam data recorded from a fully equipped barrel supermodule. Results on the performance of the method are given, and test beam specific issues are investigated, together with conclusions about implementation of the method for CMS data taking.
The operation and general performance of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter using cosmic-ray muons are described. These muons were recorded after the closure of the CMS detector in late 2008. The calorimeter is made of lead tungstate crystals and the overall status of the 75 848 channels corresponding to the barrel and endcap detectors is reported. The stability of crucial operational parameters, such as high voltage, temperature and electronic noise, is summarised and the performance of the light monitoring system is presented.
The CMS muon system has been aligned using cosmic-ray muons
collected in 2008 and beam-halo muons from the 2008 LHC circulating
beam tests. After alignment, the resolution of the most sensitive
coordinate is 80 microns for the relative positions of superlayers in
the same barrel chamber and 270 microns for the relative positions of
endcap chambers in the same ring structure. The resolution on the
position of the central barrel chambers relative to the tracker is
comprised between two extreme estimates, 200 and 700 microns,
provided by two complementary studies. With minor modifications, the
alignment procedures can be applied using muons from LHC collisions,
leading to additional significant improvements.
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