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    N E W J E R S E Y L O N D O N S I N G A P O R E B E I J I N G S H A N G H A I H O N G K O N G T A I P E I C H E N N A I

    Proceedings of the Fourteenth LomonosovConference on Elementary Particle Physics

    Moscow, Russia 19 25 August 2009

    Editor

    Alexander I. StudenikinDepartment of Theoretical Physics

    Moscow State University, Russia

    and

    Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna), Russia

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    PARTICLE PHYSICS AT THE YEAR OF ASTRONOMY

    Proceedings of the Fourteenth Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics

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    Moscow State UniversityFaculty of Physics

    Interregional Centre for Advanced Studies

    Sponsors

    Russian Foundation for Basic ResearchRussian Agency for Science and InnovationRussian Academy of Sciences

    Russian Agency for Atomic EnergyDmitry Zimin "Dynasty"' Foundation

    Supporting Institutions

    Faculty of Physics of Moscow State UniversitySkobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University

    Interregional Centre for Advanced Studies

    Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics (Dubna)Institute for Nuclear Research (Moscow)

    Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow)Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk)

    v

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    International Advisory Committee

    E.Akhmedov (Max Planck, Heidelberg),S.Belayev (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow),

    V.Belokurov (MSU),V.Berezinsky (LNGS, Gran Sasso),

    S.Bilenky (JINR, Dubna),J.BIeimaier (Princeton),

    M.Danilov (ITEP, Moscow),G.Diambrini-Palazzi (Univ. of Rome),

    A.Dolgov (INFN, Ferrara & ITEP, Moscow),C.Giunti (INFN, Turin),

    V.Kadyshevsky (JINR, Dubna),A.Logunov (IHEP, Protvino),A.Masiero (INFN, Padua),V.Matveev (INR, Moscow),

    L.Okun (ITEP, Moscow),M.Panasyuk (SINP MSU),

    V.Rubakov (INR, Moscow),D.Shirkov (JINR, Dubna),J.Silk (Univ. of Oxford),

    A.Sissakian (JINR, Dubna),A.Skrinsky (INP, Novosibirsk),A.SIavnov (MSU & Steklov Math.Inst, Moscow)

    A.Smirnov (ICTP, Trieste & INR, Moscow),P.Spillantini (INFN, Florence),

    V.Trukhin (MSU)

    Organizing Committee

    V.Bagrov (Tomsk State Univ.),V.Braginsky (MSU),

    A.Egorov (ICAS, Moscow), D.Galtsov (MSU),A.Grigoriev (MSU & ICAS, Moscow),

    A.Kataev (INR, Moscow), A.Kataev (INR, Moscow),A.Lokhov (MSU), V.Mikhailin (MSU & ICAS, Moscow)

    A.Mourao (IST/CENTRA, Lisbon),N.Narozhny (MEPHI, Moscow),

    A.Nikishov (Lebedev Physical Inst., Moscow),N.Nikiforova (MSU), V.Ritus (Lebedev Physical Inst., Moscow),

    M.Polyakova (ICAS),Yu.Popov (MSU), V.Savrin (MSU),

    A.Studenikin (MSU & ICAS, Moscow),

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    Vll

    Moscow State UniversityInterregional Centre for Advanced Studies

    Moscow, August 25, 2009

    Presidium of the Meeting

    V.A.Sadovnichy (MSU) - ChairmanV.V.Belokurov (MSU)

    J.BIeimaier (Princeton)

    G.Diambrini-Palazzi (University of Rome)

    V.G.Kadyshevsky (JINR)

    S.P.Kapitza (Russian Academy of Sciences)

    V.V.Mikhailin (MSU)

    A.I.Studenikin (MSU & ICAS) - Vice ChairmanV.l.Trukhin (MSU)

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    FOREWORD

    The 14thLomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics was heldat the Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) on August 19-25, 2009 under thePatronage of the Rector of the Moscow State University Victor Sadovnichy.

    The conference was organized by the Faculty of Physics and SkobeltsynInstitute of Nuclear Physics of the Moscow State University in cooperation with theInterregional Centre for Advanced Studies and supported by the Joint Institute forNuclear Research (Dubna), the Institute for Nuclear Research (Moscow), the BudkerInstitute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk) and the Institute of Theoretical andExperimental Physics (Moscow). The Russian Foundation for Basic Research, theRussian Agency for Science and Innovation, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the

    Dmitry Zimin "Dynasty" Foundation and the Russian Agency for Atomic Energysponsored the conference.

    It was more than twenty years ago when the first of the series ofconferences (from 1993 called the "Lomonosov Conferences"), was held at theDepartment of Theoretical Physics of the Moscow State University (June 1983,Moscow). The second conference was held in Kishinev, Republic of Moldavia,USSR (May 1985).

    After the four years break this series was resumed on a new conceptualbasis for the conference programme focus. During the preparation of the third

    conference (that was held in Maykop, Russia, 1989) a desire to broaden theprogramme to include more general issues in particle physics became apparent.During the conference of the year 1992 held in Yaroslavl it was proposed by myselfand approved by numerous participants that these irregularly held meetings shouldbe transformed into regular events under the title "Lomonosov Conferences onElementary Particle Physics". Since then at subsequent meetings of this series awide variety of interesting things both in theory and experiment of particle physics,field theory, astrophysics, gravitation and cosmology were included into theprogrammes. It was also decided to enlarge the number of institutions that would

    take part in preparation of future conferences.Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), a brilliant Russian encyclopaedias of the

    era of the Russian Empress Catherine the 2nd, was world renowned for hisdistinguished contributions in the fields of science and art. He also helped establishthe high school educational system in Russia. The Moscow State University wasfounded in 1755 based on his plan and initiative, and the University now bears thename of Lomonosov.

    The 6thLomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics (1993) andall of the subsequent conferences of this series were held at the Moscow State

    University on each of the odd years. Publication of the volume "Particle Physics,Gauge Fields and Astrophysics" containing articles written on the basis ofpresentations at the 5th and 6th Lomonosov Conferences was supported by theAccademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, 1994). Proceedings of the 7th and 8th

    Lomonosov Conference (entitled "Problems of Fundamental Physics" and"Elementary Particle Physics") were published by the Interregional Centre for

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    Wilquet, Bolek Wyslouch for their help in planning of the scientific programme ofthe meeting and inviting speakers for the topical sessions of the conference.

    Special thanks are due to Alexander Suvorinov (the Russian Agency forScience and Innovations) and Valery Rachkov (the Russian State Corporation forAtomic Energy) for their very valuable help.

    Furthermore, I am very pleased to mention Ilya Balantsev, AlexanderGrigoriev and Alexey Lokhov, the Scientific Secretaries of the conference, AndreyEgorov, Hamid Gadimi, Mila Polyakova, Konstantin Kiselyev, Ilya Tokarev,Svetlana Esakova, Tanyusha Pogorelova and Maria Skrigolovskaya for their veryefficient work in preparing and running the meeting.

    These Proceedings were prepared for publication at the Interregional Centre

    for Advanced Studies with support by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research,the Russian Agency for Science and Innovations and the Russian Agency forAtomic Energy.

    Alexander Studenikin

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    CONTENTS

    Fourteenth Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics - v

    Sponsors and Committees

    Foreword ix

    Physics at Accelerators and Studies in SM and Beyond

    Status of the ATLAS Experiment 3

    P. S. Wells

    Early Physics with ATLAS at LHC 11

    B. Esposito

    Thermal Effects for Quark and Gluon Distributions in Heavy-Ion Collisions at NICA 17

    G. I. Lykasov, A. N. Sissakian, A. S. Sorin, O. V. Teryaev

    CMS: Status and Physics Prospects 23

    C. Biino

    Z' Discovery Potential at the LHC for Models with Continuously Distributed Mass 29

    N. V. Krasnikov

    Black Holes at LHC? 34

    D. V. Galfsov, P. A. Spirin

    Recent Electroweak Measurements at the TEVATRON 38

    A. Askew

    Top Physics with the ATLAS Detector at LHC 42D. Pallin

    QCD Studies at the LHC with the ATLAS Detector 46

    S. Eckweiler

    ATLAS Discovery Potential of the Standard Model Higgs Boson 50C. Weiser

    Signatures of ADS/CFT Using the CMS Experiment at the LHC 57

    D. Krofcheck

    Study of Jet Transverse Structure with CMS Experiment at 10 TEV 60

    N. Ilina

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    Elliptic Flow Studies in Heavy-Ion Collisions Using the CMS Detector at the LHC 63

    S. Petrushanko

    Ion Physics in CMS Experiment at LHC 66

    L. I. Sarycheva

    Systematic Uncertainties in Experiments at LHC 69

    S. I. Bityukov, N. V. Krasnikov

    Electroweak Physics and Searches for New Physics at HERA 72

    U. Schneekloth

    Proton Structure Function Measurements at HERA 80V. Chekelian

    Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at TEVATRON 85

    A. Shchukin

    Testing the Standard Model with Top Quarks 91

    E. W. Varnes

    Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the ATLAS Experiment at

    the LHC 97

    E.Ros

    Neutrino Physics

    Neutrino physics with OPERA 103

    A. Bertolin

    New Results from the FNAL SCIBOONE Neutrino Experiment (FNAL E954) 109

    T. Nakaya

    Status of the T2K Experiment 116M. Shibata

    Recent Results of the BOREXINO Experiment 122

    E. Litvinovich

    DOUBLE CHOOZ Project: Status of a Reactor Experiment Aimed at Search

    for Neutrino Oscillations 126

    S. Sukhotin

    The ANT ARES Experiment in the Mediterranean Sea: Overview and First Results 131D. Zaborov

    High-Energy Neutrinos from Galactic Sources 135

    A. Kappes

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    The GSI Time Anomaly: Facts and Fiction 141

    C. Giunti

    Updated Constraints on Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions 147

    O. G. Miranda

    KATRIN Experiment in 2009 - Systematic Improvements 151

    N. Titov

    Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of76

    Ge with the GERmanium

    Detector Array "GERDA" 157

    A. Garfagnini

    CUORE: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with Bolometers 161

    S. Di Domizio

    The Absolute Mass of Neutrino and the First Unique Forbidden Beta-Decay

    of187Re 164

    R. Dvornicky, F. Simkovic, K. Muto

    Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Searching for New Physics with Comparison

    of Different Nuclei 168

    A. Ali, A. V. Borisov, D. V. Zhuridov

    Study of Quasi-Elastic ^ ( v ^ ) Scattering in the NOMAD Experiment 171

    J.-M. Levy

    Precision Measurements by NOMAD Experiment 174

    D. V. Naumov

    Some Remarks on Neutrino Detection from SN1987A 177

    V. L. Dadykin, O. G. Ryazhskaya

    Flavor Oscillations of Low Energy Neutrinos in the Rotating Neutron Star 183

    M. Dvornikov

    Dirac Neutrino Magnetic Moment and the Dynamics of a Supernova Explosion 186

    A. V. Kuznetsov, N. V. Mikheev, A. A. Okrugin

    Reexamination of a Bound on the Dirac Neutrino Magnetic Moment from

    the Supernova Neutrino Luminosity 189

    A. V. Kuznetsov, N. V. Mikheev, A. A. Okrugin

    Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology

    Cosmic Antimatter: Models and Phenomenology 193

    A. D. Dolgov

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    Cosmic Ray Studies with PAMELA Experiment 200

    P. Picozza, R. Sparvoli, O. Adriani, G. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya,

    R. Bellotti, M. Boezio, E. A. Bogomolov, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, V. Borwicini,S. Borisov, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, R. Carbone,

    P. Carlson, M. Casolino, G. Castellini, L. Consiglio, M. P. De Pascale,

    C. De Santis, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, A. M. Galper, W. Gillard,

    L. Grishantseva, G. Jerse, A. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, S. Y. Krutkov,

    A. N. Kvashnin, A. Leonov, V. Malvezzi, L. Marcelli, W. Menn, V. V. Mikhailov,

    E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, N. Nikonov, G. Osteria, P. Papini,

    M. Pearce, C. Pizzolotto, M. Ricci, S. B. Ricciarini, L. Rossetto, M. Simon,

    P. Spillantini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. Vasilyev,

    S. A. Voronov, J. Wu, Y. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, V. G. Zverev

    DAMA/LIBRA Results 207

    R. Bernabei, P. Belli, F. Montecchia, F. Nozzoli, F. Cappella, A. d'Angelo,

    A. Incicchitti, D. Prosperi, R. Cerulli, C. J. Dai, H. L. He, H. H. Kuang, X. H. Ma,

    X. D. Sheng, R. G. Wang, Z. P. Ye

    Searching for Processes Violating the Pauli Exclusion Principle in Na and I 216

    with DAMA/LIBRA

    R. Bernabei, P. Belli, F. Montecchia, F. Nozzoli, F. Cappella, A. d'Angelo,

    A. Incicchitti, D. Prosperi, R. Cerulli, C. J. Dai, H. L. He, H. H. Kuang, X. H. Ma,

    X. D. Sheng,ZP. Ye

    Advances in the Exploration of Particle Dark Matter Signals 219

    N. Fornengo

    Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galaxy 229

    V. Berezinsky, V. Dokuchaev, Y. Eroshenko

    Leptogenesis 232P. Di Bari

    Gravitational Waves: From the Past to the Future of the Global Network of Detectors 238F. Ricci

    Gravitational Wave Astronomy: An Experimental Overview 245

    G. Hammond

    Fine Structure in the Cosmic Ray Electron Spectrum Measured by ATIC 252

    A.D. Panov, V. I. Zatsepin, N. V. Sokolskaya, G. L. Bashindzhagyan,

    E. N. Kouznetsov, M. I. Panasyuk, E. B. Postnikov, J. H. Adams, Jr., M. Christl,

    J. Watts, H. S. Ahn, K. C. Kim, E. S. Seo, J. Wu, J. Chang, T. G. Guzik, J. Isbert,

    J. P. Wefel

    The Cosmic Ray Spectrum at Ultrahigh Energies 255

    M. Pravdin

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    Neutrino Asymmetry and the Growth of Cosmological Seed Hypermagnetic Fields 259

    V. B. Semikoz

    Regular Source of the Kerr Spinning Particle 262

    A. Burins kii

    Atoms as Rods and Clocks in Gravitational Field 266

    A. Nikishov

    Nonhydrogen-Like Graviatom Radiation 268

    M. FiVchenkov, Y. Laptev

    Brane Universe: Global Geometry 271A. Smirnov

    Radiation Exposure and Mission Strategies for Interplanetary Manned Missions 274

    and Interplanetary Habitats

    P. Spillantini

    CP Violation and Rare Decays

    KLOE Recent Results: A Review 287

    A. De Santis

    ISR Physics at BABAR 293

    S. Serednyakov

    Semileptonic B-Meson Decays at BABAR 297

    M. Sigamani

    BABAR: Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in Tau Decay 301

    M. A. Giorgi

    Prospects for Rare B-Decays at the LHCb 307N. Serra

    Prospects of CP Violation Measurements at LHCb 311

    T. du Free

    Searches for New Physics at NA62 315

    V. Palladino

    QCD Tests with Kaon Decays 319

    C. Biino

    Scaled Momentum Spectra in Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA 323

    B. Brzozowska

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    How the Interaction ofnMesons in the Final State Changes a Correlation 326

    BetweenK * InandK * 3KAmplitudes

    E. Shabalin

    Hadron Physics

    Axial Anomaly and Strange Quarks 331

    O. Teryaev

    Strong Magnetic Fields in Lattice QCD 336

    P. V. Buividovich, E. V. Luschevskaya, M. I. Polikarpov, M. N. Chernodub

    Hadronic Effects in Low-Energy QCD: Adler Function andTauDecay 342A.V. Nesterenko

    Helicity Quark Distributions from DIS and SIDIS Measured in COMPASS 345

    D. Peshekhonov

    Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction with CLAS 349

    M. Osipenko

    Self-Similarity of Jet Production and QCD 352

    M. Tokarev, T. Dedovich

    Electromagnetic Structure Functions of Nucleons in the Region of Very Small X Y 358

    E. V. Bugaev, B. V. Mangazeev

    Resummation in QCD Fractional Analytic Perturbation Theory 361

    A.P. Bakulev

    Scaling Behavior of Factorial Moments of the Multiplicity Difference and

    Phase Transition QGP to Hadrons 363

    L. F. Babichev, A. N. Khmialeuski

    Heavy Hadrons in Quark-Gluon Plasma 365

    /.V. Narodetskii, Yu. A. Simonov, A. I. Veselov

    New Developments in Quantum Field Theory

    New Bound States of Heavy Quarks at LHC and TEVATRON 369

    C. R. Das, C. D. Froggatt, L. V. Laperashvili, H. B. Nielsen

    Bounds on New Light Particles From High Energy and Very Small Momentum 372

    TransfernpElastic Scattering DataM. Vysotsky

    Is the Fifth Family Predicted by the "Approach Unifying Spin and Charges" 375

    what Forms the Dark Matter?

    N. S. Mankoc Borstnik

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    60 years of Broken Symmetries in Quantum Physics 382

    D. Shirkov

    Unstable-Particles Pair Production in MPT Approach in NNLO 383

    M. L. Nekrasov

    Releaving Structure of Quantum Corrections inN= 1 Supersymmetric 385

    Theories Using the Schwinger-Dyson Equations

    K. Stepanyantz

    Near-Threshold Boson-Pair Production in the Model of Unstable Particles 388

    V. Kuksa, R. Pasechnik

    Radiative and Hadronic Decays of Vector Mesons in the Gauge Model of

    Quark-Meson Interactions 390

    V. Beylin, V. Kuksa, G. Vereshkov

    Energy of Unstable States at Long Times 392

    K. Urbanowski, J. Piskorski

    The Quantum Deformation of the Weakly Excited Electrons Synchrotron 398

    Radiation Angular Distributions

    V. G. Bagrov, A. N. Bourimova

    Casimir Pressure Regularization and Renormalization in Two- Dimensional 404

    Scalar Field Model

    Yu. S. Voronina, P. K. Silaev

    Two-Loop Gell-Mann-Low Function for General RenormalizableN=\ 406

    Supersymmetric Theory, Regularized by Higher Derivatives

    E. Shevtsova

    Casimir Effect within (3 + 1)D Maxwell-Chern-Simons Electrodynamics 408

    O. Kharlanov, V. Zhukovsky

    Casimir Energy Calculations for Chern-Simons Surfaces and Dielectric Plates 411

    within the Formalism of Lattice Quantum Field Theory

    M. Ulybyshev

    Bound States of the Fourth-Generation Quarks 413

    O. Pavlovsky, M. Ulybyshev

    Exponential form of the Mixing Matrix in the Lepton Sector of the Standard Model 415

    G. Dattoli, K. Zhukovsky

    "The Bundle for Memory" from an Exotic Quasiparticles 419

    V. Skvortsov, N. Vogel

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    Angular Momentum Radiation of Spin Light 425

    V. A. Bordovitsyn, O.A. Konstantinova

    Force-Momentum Radiation from Relativistic Charged Particles 427

    V. A. Bordovitsyn, E. A. Nemchenko

    Reduced Gauge Theory and Multi-Matrix Models 429

    A.O. Shishanin

    Problems of Intelligentsia

    The Intelligentsia and Globalization 433

    J. K. Bleimaier

    Conference Programme 441

    List of Participants 448

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    Physics at Accelerators and Studies in SMand Beyond

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    STATUS OF THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT

    P. S. Wells", on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration

    Dept. PH, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, SWITZERLANDAbstract. The ATLAS experiment is a general purpose detector to observe proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. The experiment has been commis-sioned with a large sample of cosmic ray events recorded in 2008 and 2009, andthe first proton-proton collisions were observed at the end of 2009. The very goodstate of readiness of the detector, and some first results of collisions, are reported.

    1 Introduction

    The ATLAS experiment [1] is a general purpose detector, designed to measurethe products of high energy proton-proton (pp) and heavy ion collisions fromthe Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The detector was built and is operated bya collaboration of about 2,800 physicists, including 800 PhD students, drawnfrom 169 institutions, coming from 37 countries, spanning 5 continents. Thispaper discusses the readiness of the ATLAS detector to observe LHC collisions,based on calibration work and studies of a large sample of cosmic ray events.

    A total of 216 million cosmic ray events was collected in the autumn of2008, and a further 93 million in summer 2009. The overall event rate was

    up to 700 Hz, but with less than 1 Hz passing through the pixel detectorat the centre of the experiment. In December 2009, about one million ppcollision interactions were recorded at the LHC injection energy, correspondingto 900 GeV in the centre-of-mass system. The beams were declared stablefor about 460 thousand of these collisions, and for these events the detectorcould be fully switched on. In addition, 34 thousand events were recorded at ahigher centre-of-mass energy of 2.36 TeV, but without the full tracking detectorat operational voltage.

    2 The ATLAS detector

    The overall apparatus is 25 m high, 44 m long, and weighs 7,000 tonnes. Acut-away diagramme is shown in Figure 1. The layout of the detector is drivenby the magnet systems, in particular the barrel and end-cap toroid magnets ofthe muon spectrometer.

    2.1 The ATLAS magnets and the muon spectrometer

    A 2.5 m long, 2.5 m diameter superconducting solenoid provides a uniform 2 Tfield for the inner detector, with an excitation current of 7.7 kA. The barrel andtwo end-cap toroids each have eight coils, with an excitation current of 20.5 kA.

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    Figure 1: Cut-away view

    of

    the ATLAS detector.

    The

    8 barrel coils are each

    25

    m long, 5 m wide and weigh 100 tonnes. The

    typical field is 0.5 T. In contrast, each end-cap toroid has 8 coils in a common

    cryostat

    of 11 m diameter.

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    240 tonnes each, these were

    the

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    be lowered into

    the

    ATLAS experimental cavern .

    The

    typical end-cap

    field is 1 T. The full magnet system has

    operated

    reliably for long periods.

    The

    muon spectrometer provides a muon trigger and momentum measure

    ment, with a momentum resolution better than 10% up to about 1 TeV. The

    barrel toroid field alone covers

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    < 1.4, and

    then

    overlaps

    the

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    cap field for 1.4 < 7 < 1.6. There are 700 precision chambers made from

    monitored drift tubes (MDT) in the barrel , complemented by 600 resistive

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    trigger chambers (RPC) for

    7