Speaker
Greig Cowan
(Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
Description
The LHCb detector has been optimized for the search for New Physics in
CP violating observables and rare heavy-quark decays at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC). The detector is a single arm forward
spectrometer with excellent tracking and particle identification
capabilities. The LHCb Silicon Tracker is constructed from silicon
micro-strip detectors with long readout strips. It consists of one
four-layer tracking station upstream of the LHCb spectrometer magnet
and three stations downstream of the magnet. The detectors have
performed extremely well right from the start of LHC operation,
permitting the experiment to collect data at instantaneous
luminosities well exceeding the design value. In this presentation, an
overview of the operational experience from the first two years of
data taking at the LHC will be given, with special emphasis on
problems encountered. Calibration procedures will be discussed as well
as studies of the intrinsic detector efficiency and resolution. First
measurements of the observed radiation damage will also be shown.
Author
Greig Cowan
(Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
