Speaker
Dr
Dermot Moran
(University of Manchester)
Description
The VErtex LOcator (VELO) is a silicon strip detector designed to reconstruct particle
tracks and vertices produced by proton-proton interactions near to the LHCb interaction point. The excellent track resolution and decay vertex separation provided by the
VELO are essential to all LHCb analyses. For the integrated luminosity delivered by
the LHC up to the end of 2011 the VELO is exposed to higher particle fluences than
any other silicon detector of the four major LHC experiments. The results from radiation damage studies, based on effective depletion voltage monitoring, carried out
during the first two years of data taking at the LHC are presented. A radiation induced
second metal layer charge loss effect is also discussed in detail.
Author
Dr
Dermot Moran
(University of Manchester)
