The LHCb Silicon Tracker

Author

Vollhardt, Achim

Author_Institution

Phys. Inst., Zurich Univ., Switzerland

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

19-25 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1646

Abstract

The LHCb detector is a collider experiment at the new LHC at CERN/Switzerland. It is dedicated to measure precisely CP violation parameters in the B-system. The LHCb Silicon Tracker is covering the regions of the tracking detector with the highest particle fluences. The silicon sensors are wide pitch strip detectors connected to multi-channel analogue readout amplifiers. The analogue data is then digitized and transmitted optically to the counting room for further processing. The following paper describes R&D of the silicon sensors performed including testbeam data. We present readout chip performance followed by an overview of the used data transmission system, which has been designed for radiation tolerance and low cost.

Keywords

CP invariance; particle spectrometers; position sensitive particle detectors; readout electronics; silicon radiation detectors; B-system; CP violation parameters; LHCb Silicon Tracker; LHCb detector; collider experiment; counting room; data transmission system; multichannel analogue readout amplifiers; overview; radiation tolerance; readout chip performance; silicon sensors; testbeam data; tracking detector; wide pitch strip detectors; Detectors; Large Hadron Collider; Optical amplifiers; Optical sensors; Particle tracking; Research and development; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Silicon; Stimulated emission; Strips;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8257-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352194

Filename

1352194