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Evolution of Silicon Sensor Technology in Particle Physics

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Authors:
  1. Frank Hartmann
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  • Surveys the technological evolution of silicon detectors and their impact on high- energy particle physics
  • Includes coverage of the DELPHI, CDF II and the CMS tracking detectors
  • Covers both small strip- and pixel-detectors and the final large-scale applications
  • Provides a stimulating practical introduction to silicon sensor technology and its day to day life in the lab

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics (STMP, volume 231)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-8
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  2. Basic Principles of a Silicon Detector

    • Frank Hartmann
    Pages 1-96

  3. First Steps With Silicon Sensors: NA11 (Proof of Principle)

    • Frank Hartmann
    Pages 1-6

  4. The DELPHI Microvertex Detector at LEP

    • Frank Hartmann
    Pages 1-20

  5. CDF; the World’s Largest Silicon Detector in the 20th Century; the First Silicon Detector at a Hadron Collider

    • Frank Hartmann
    Pages 1-24

  6. CMS; Increasing Size by two Orders of Magnitude

    • Frank Hartmann
    Pages 1-31

  7. Continuing the Story: Detectors for the SLHC and the ILC

    • Frank Hartmann
    Pages 1-7

  8. Conclusion and Outlook

    • Frank Hartmann
    Pages 1-10

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 1-12
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In the post era of the Z and W discovery, after the observation of Jets at UA1 and UA2 at CERN, John Ellis visioned at a HEP conference at Lake Tahoe, California in 1983 “To proceed with high energy particle physics, one has to tag the avour of the quarks!” This statement re ects the need for a highly precise tracking device, being able to resolve secondary and tertiary vertices within high-particle densities. Since the d- tance between the primary interaction point and the secondary vertex is proportional tothelifetimeoftheparticipatingparticle,itisanexcellentquantitytoidentifypar- cle avour in a very fast and precise way. In colliding beam experiments this method was applied especially to tag the presence of b quarks within particle jets. It was rst introduced in the DELPHI experiment at LEP but soon followed by all collider - periments to date. The long expected t quark discovery was possible mainly with the help of the CDF silicon vertex tracker, providing the b quark information. In the beginning of the 21st century the new LHC experiments are beginning to take 2 shape. CMS with its 206m of silicon area is perfectly suited to cope with the high luminosity environment. Even larger detectors are envisioned for the far future, like the SiLC project for the International Linear Collider. Silicon sensors matured from small 1in. single-sided devices to large 6in. double-sided, double metal detectors and to 6in. single-sided radiation hard sensors.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolution of Silicon Sensor Technology in Particle Physics

  • Authors: Frank Hartmann

  • Series Title: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b106762

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06416-6Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-44774-0Published: 03 December 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0081-3869

  • Series E-ISSN: 1615-0430

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 204

  • Number of Illustrations: 352 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics

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