Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC is currently under construction at CERN and will start operation in summer 2008. The Inner Detector of ATLAS is designed to measure the momentum of charged particles and to reconstruct primary and secondary vertices. It consists of a silicon pixel detector, a silicon strip detector and a straw tube detector. For optimal performance of the Inner Detector the position of all active detector elements must be known with a precision of a few microns. The ultimate precision will be reached with a trackbased alignment algorithm. The different alignment methods currently investigated for the ATLAS Inner Detector are presented, as well as the various computational aspects regarding track-based alignment. Results from simulation studies as well as results from testbeam and cosmic ray detector setups are shown and discussed.