Cosmic Ray Muons Timing in the ATLAS Detector

In this talk I discuss the use of calorimeter timing both for detector commissioning and in searches for new physics. In particular I present real and simulated cosmic ray muons data (2007) results for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter system. The analysis shows that several detector errors such as imperfect calibrations can be uncovered. I also demonstrate the use of ATLAS Tile Calorimeter’s excellent timing resolution in suppressing cosmic ray fake missing transverse energy (ET) in searches for supersymmetry.