Performance of the MALTA telescope

van Rijnbach, M. et al. (2023) Performance of the MALTA telescope. European Physical Journal C, 83(7), 581. (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11760-z)

Abstract

MALTA is part of the Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel sensors designed in Tower 180 nm CMOS imaging technology. A custom telescope with six MALTA planes has been developed for test beam campaigns at SPS, CERN, with the ability to host several devices under test. The telescope system has a dedicated custom readout, online monitoring integrated into DAQ with realtime hit map, time distribution and event hit multiplicity. It hosts a dedicated fully configurable trigger system enabling to trigger on coincidence between telescope planes and timing reference from a scintillator. The excellent time resolution performance allows for fast track reconstruction, due to the possibility to retain a low hit multiplicity per event which reduces the combinatorics. This paper reviews the architecture of the system and its performance during the 2021 and 2022 test beam campaign at the SPS North Area.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement number 101004761 (AIDAinnova), and number 654168 (IJS, Ljubljana, Slovenia). Furthermore it has been supported by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network of the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme under contract number 675587 (STREAM).
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Buttar, Professor Craig
• Authors: van Rijnbach, M., Gustavino, G., Allport, P., Tortajada, I. A., Berlea, D. V., Bortoletto, D., Buttar, C., Charbon, E., Dachs, F., Dao, V., Dobrijevic, D., de Acedo, L. F. S., Gabrielli, A., Gazi, M., Gonella, L., Gonzalez, V., Guidon, S., LeBlanc, M., Pernegger, H., Piro, F., Riedler, P., Sandaker, H., Sharma, A., Sanchez, C. S., Snoeys, W., Suligoj, T., Nunez, M. V., Weick, J., Worm, S., and Zoubir, A. M.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: European Physical Journal C
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 1434-6044
• ISSN (Online): 1434-6052
• Published Online: 08 July 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Authors
• First Published: First published in European Physical Journal C 83(7): 581
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
172549		STREAM	Craig Buttar	European Commission (EC)	675587	P&S - Physics & Astronomy