A multiplicity-vertex detector for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC

J. Kapustinsky, J. Boissevain, E. Bosze, C. Britton, J. Chang, D. Clark, M. Emery, N. Ericson, S. Y. Fung, B. Jacak, D. Jaffe, L. Marek, R. Seto, J. Simon-Gillo, M. Simpson, R. Smith, J. Sullivan, Y. Takahashi, H. Van Hecke, J. WalkerN. Xu

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Abstract

A Multiplicity-Vertex Detector (MVD) has been designed, and is in construction for the PHENIX Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The 35 000 channel silicon detector is a two-layer barrel comprised of 112 strip detectors, and two disk-shaped endcaps comprised of 24 wedge-shaped pad detectors. The support structure of the MVD is very low mass, only 0.4% of a radiation length in the central barrel. The detector front-end electronics are a custom CMOS chip set containing preamplifier, discriminator, analog memory unit, and analog-to-digital converter. The system has pipelined acquisition, performs in simultaneous read/write mode, and is clocked by the 10 MHz beam crossing rate at RHIC. These die, together with a pair of commercial FPGAs that are used for control logic, are packaged in a mutlichip-module (MCM). The MCM will be fabricated in the High-Density-Interconnect (HDI) process. The prototype MCM design layout is described.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)192-196
Number of pages5
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume392
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 21 1997

Funding

The MVD project is supported by the United States Department of Energy.

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