ATLAS Muon New Small Wheel Grounding, Power and Interconnect Guidelines and Policies

The purpose of this document is to identify grounding, bypassing, signaling, and other issues affecting the integrity of the New Small Wheel detectors, their signals, and their electronics. These issues will be addressed and will result in either general guidelines for implementation or in some cases NSW policies to be adhered to by all subsystems and electronic boards associated with both detector technologies; Micromegas (MM) and sTGC. In the following, all “Guideline” and “Policy” statements will be written in italics and the latter will be considered mandatory.