Assembly and Certification of ATLAS Muon Stations for the Middle and Outer Barrel at CERN

Roughly 400 of the approximately 700 muon stations of the ATLAS barrel belong to the middle and outer layer. Barrel Middle and Barrel Outer stations consist of both an MDT chamber and one or two RPC planes delivering the level-1 trigger information. While MDT chambers and individual RPC units are constructed at their home institutes, the assembly of the RPCs into planes, including the final cabling and the mounting of the trigger electronics, as well as the integration of MDTs and RPCs into muon stations takes place at CERN. MDT chambers, RPC planes and the completed stations have to pass a series of tests before being declared 'ready-for-installation'. Final certification criteria is the passing of a one-day cosmic ray test, for which a special setup has been built in building 899 (BB5). This note gives an overview over the work carried out in BB5, with emphasis on the cosmic ray test. Examples of abnormal chamber behavior will be discussed and a summary of common mistakes in station assembly or chamber cabling will be given. A second focus of the note is on the statistical analysis of the certification results.