Silicon vertex tracker for RHIC PHENIX experiment

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...

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Published in:	Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2010-11, Vol.623 (1), p.374-376
Main Authors:	Taketani, A., Akiba, Y., Apdula, N., Atomssa, E.T., Boyle, K., Granier de Cassagnac, R., Cianciolo, V., Deshpande, A., Dion, A., Drapier, O., Drees, A., Enokizono, A., Fujiwara, K., Gastaldi, F., Haki, Y., Hashimoto, K., Ichimiya, R., Kanaya, J., Kasai, M., Kurita, K., Kurosawa, M., Lebedev, A., Li, Z., Mannel, E., Nakano, K., Nouicer, R., Ogilvie, C.A., Onuki, Y., Pak, R., Pancake, C., Pei, H., Shafto, E., Sondheim, W.E., Togawa, M.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	PHENIX Pixel RHIC Silicon sensor Stripixel Vertex tracker
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Summary:	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 120GeV proton beam.
ISSN:	0168-9002 1872-9576