The LHCb Silicon Tracker commissioning and first data

Author

Büchler, Angela

Author_Institution

Phys. Inst., Univ. of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2009

fDate

Oct. 24 2009-Nov. 1 2009

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

22

Abstract

The LHCb Silicon Tracker (ST) was installed in the LHCb detector and was successfully put into operation in summer 2008. The ST plays a crucial role in reconstructing the trajectories of charged particles. It consists of two silicon microstrip detectors, the Tracker Turicensis upstream of the LHCb dipole magnet and the Inner Tracker downstream of the magnet. Insights gained during the exciting commissioning phase, the problems encountered and their solutions are presented. The data collected during LHC injection tests in 2008 and 2009 allowed us to make a first measurement of the detector performance. The data is used to determine the spatial and time alignment of the ST. Furthermore, these tests have been extremely useful for tuning operational parameters of the different parts of the Silicon Tracker.

Keywords

cyclic accelerators; particle beams; silicon radiation detectors; Inner Tracker; LHCb Silicon Tracker; LHCb dipole magnet; Tracker Turicensis; charged particle trajectory reconstruction; commissioning phase; injection test; silicon microstrip detectors; Detectors; Helium; Large Hadron Collider; Particle beam injection; Particle tracking; Protons; Silicon; Temperature; Testing; Voltage control; LHC; LHCb; Silicon; commissioning; first data; injection test; tracker;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3961-4

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401903

Filename

5401903