A double-sided silicon micro-strip super-module for the ATLAS inner detector upgrade in the high-luminosity LHC

Gonzalez-Sevilla, S. et al. (2014) A double-sided silicon micro-strip super-module for the ATLAS inner detector upgrade in the high-luminosity LHC. Journal of Instrumentation, 9, P02003. (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/02/P02003)

Abstract

The ATLAS experiment is a general purpose detector aiming to fully exploit the discovery potential of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It is foreseen that after several years of successful data-taking, the LHC physics programme will be extended in the so-called High-Luminosity LHC, where the instantaneous luminosity will be increased up to 5 × 1034 cm−2 s−1. For ATLAS, an upgrade scenario will imply the complete replacement of its internal tracker, as the existing detector will not provide the required performance due to the cumulated radiation damage and the increase in the detector occupancy. The current baseline layout for the new ATLAS tracker is an all-silicon-based detector, with pixel sensors in the inner layers and silicon micro-strip detectors at intermediate and outer radii. The super-module is an integration concept proposed for the strip region of the future ATLAS tracker, where double-sided stereo silicon micro-strip modules are assembled into a low-mass local support structure. An electrical super-module prototype for eight double-sided strip modules has been constructed. The aim is to exercise the multi-module readout chain and to investigate the noise performance of such a system. In this paper, the main components of the current super-module prototype are described and its electrical performance is presented in detail.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Blue, Dr Andrew and Buttar, Professor Craig and Bates, Dr Richard
• Authors: Gonzalez-Sevilla, S., Affolder, A. A., Allport, P. P., Anghinolfi, F., Barbier, G., Bates, R., Beck, G., Benitez, V., Bernabeu, J., Blanchot, G., Bloch, I., Blue, A., Booker, P., Brenner, R., Buttar, C., Cadoux, F., Casse, G., Carroll, J., Church, I., Civera, J. V., Clark, A., Dervan, P., Díez, S., Endo, M., Fadeyev, V., Farthouat, P., Favre, Y., Ferrere, D., Friedrich, C., French, R., Gallop, B., García, C., Gibson, M., Greenall, A., Gregor, I., Grillo, A., Haber, C. H., Hanagaki, K., Hara, K., Hauser, M., Haywood, S., Hessey, N., Hill, J., Hommels, L. B. A., Iacobucci, G., Ikegami, Y., Jones, T., Kaplon, J., Kuehn, S., Lacasta, C., Marra, D. L., Lynn, D., Mahboubin, K., Marco, R., Martí-García, S., Martínez-McKinney, F., Matheson, J., McMahon, S., Nelson, D., Newcomer, F. M., Parzefall, U., Phillips, P. W., Sadrozinski, H. F. -W., Santoyo, D., Seiden, A., Soldevila, U., Spencer, E., Stanitzki, M., Sutcliffe, P., Takubo, Y., Terada, S., Tipton, P., Tsurin, I., Ullán, M., Unno, Y., Villani, E. G., Warren, M., Weber, M., Wilmut, I., Wonsak, S., Witharm, R., and Wormald, M.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Journal of Instrumentation
• Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
• ISSN: 1748-0221
• ISSN (Online): 1748-0221
• Published Online: 07 February 2014
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2014 CERN
• First Published: First published in Journal of Instrumentation 9:P02003
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License