Silicon vertex tracker for RHIC PHENIX experiment

A. Taketani, Y. Akiba, N. Apdula, E. T. Atomssa, K. Boyle, R. Granier De Cassagnac, V. Cianciolo, A. Deshpande, A. Dion, O. Drapier, A. Drees, A. Enokizono, K. Fujiwara, F. Gastaldi, Y. Haki, K. Hashimoto, R. Ichimiya, J. Kanaya, M. Kasai, K. KuritaM. Kurosawa, A. Lebedev, Z. Li, E. Mannel, K. Nakano, R. Nouicer, C. A. Ogilvie, Y. Onuki, R. Pak, C. Pancake, H. Pei, E. Shafto, W. E. Sondheim, M. Togawa

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Abstract

The PHENIX experiment at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider will be equipped with Silicon Vertex tracker to enhance its physics capability. There are four layers of silicon sensor to reconstruct charged tracks with 50μm resolution of decay length measurement. The VTX surrounds the collision point. The inner two layers and the outer two layers are composed of 30 pixel ladders and 44 stripixel ladders, respectively. We have been developing these detectors and done a performance test with 120 GeV proton beam.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)374-376
Number of pages3
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume623
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2010

Keywords

  • PHENIX
  • Pixel
  • RHIC
  • Silicon sensor
  • Stripixel
  • Vertex tracker

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