The PHOBOS silicon sensors
✍ Scribed by Birger Back; Russell Betts; Rudolf Ganz; Kristjan H. Gulbrandsen; Burt Holzman; Wojtek Kucewicz; Willis T. Lin; Johannes Mülmenstädt; Gerrit J. van Nieuwenhuizen; Rachid Nouicer; Heinz Pernegger; Michael Reuter; Pradeep Sarin; Vincent Tsay; Carla M. Vale; Bernard Wadsworth; Alan Wuosmaa; Bolek Wyslouch
- Book ID
- 104355944
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 470 KB
- Volume
- 78
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
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✦ Synopsis
PHOBOS is one of the four experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. PHOBOS almost exclusively utilizes silicon sensors to measure charged particle multiplicity distributions and to track particles in a 2-arm spectrometer. The detector consists of about 450 silicon pad sensors. Nine different pad geometries are used to match the different physics needs of the experiment. A relatively high gram ularity, of up to 1536 channels per sensor, is used in the spectrometer. The multiplicity detector uses 128 and 64 channel sensors and the charge deposition per pad is measured to determine the multiplicity of single events. All sensors are of the double-metal silicon pad type with pad sizes from 1 cm 2 up to 4 cm 2. They are produced in Taiwan by the ERSO foundry under supervision of Miracle Co. and National Central University. An extensive testing procedure makes it possible to select sensors suited for use in PHOBOS. Detector modules consisting of up to five sensors are read out with integrated chips of either 64 or 128 channels. The testing of the sensors and the performance of assembled detector modules is discussed.
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The CMS tracking detector uses about 26 000 silicon sensors to equip 206 m 2 of silicon [F. Hartmann, et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 478 (2002); J.L. Agram, et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 517 (2004) 77]. During our quality and process control, including long term testing of the silicon sensors,