Research aims and objectives ............................................................. 3
1.3.
Presentation of chapters ..................................................................... 4
2
The Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector ........................................ 5
2.1.
The ATLAS co-ordinate system ......................................................... 7
2.2.
Plastic scintillators in the Tile Calorimeter ........................................ 8
2.2.1.
The Barrel regions ...................................................................... 8
2.2.2.
The Gap regions ....................................................................... 10
2.3.
The radiation environment of plastic scintillators in the Tile
Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector ............................................................ 12