Serial Powering for Silicon Strip Detectors at SLUC

Author

Villani, Enrico Giulio ; Weber, Marc ; Tuononen, Anu

Author_Institution

Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

1244

Lastpage

1247

Abstract

Serial powering of silicon sensors is a novel powering scheme that would reduce the total power, the number of cables, the passive detector material, and the costs of future silicon trackers by large factors. Modules are chained in series and are served by a single current source. Serial powering is of great interest for future large-scale silicon tracking detectors for particle physics with many thousands of densely packed detector modules. Tests with six ATLAS semiconductor tracker (SCT) modules using both serial powering and the conventional independent powering have been carried out. The electrical performance of SCT modules powered in series is excellent. We present selected results and discuss the system aspects of a serial powering.

Keywords

nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; power supply circuits; silicon radiation detectors; A Toroidal LHC Apparatus; ATLAS semiconductor tracker; SLHC; Super Large Hadron Collider; serial powering; silicon strip detectors; Detectors; Laboratories; Large Hadron Collider; Power cables; Power supplies; Regulators; Silicon; Strips; Telephony; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356069

Filename

4179223