Speaker
Aaron Dominguez
(University of Nebraska)
Description
The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) will start taking data at the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2007 with the largest silicon tracking
detector ever built. As a key component of this tracker, the collaboration is
building a silicon pixel detector consisting of two forward/backward disks on
each side of the interaction region and three barrel layers. The pixel detector
will be crucial to pattern recognition and track reconstruction in the hadronic
collisions of CMS and will play a key role in the physics program of the LHC.
During the 2007 pilot physics run of the LHC, CMS will run with a subset of
the final detector to be installed in 2008. The construction, testing and
qualification of the pixel detector is an important aspect of the project and
will be described in a separate contribution. In this report, the final design
and results from test beam runs and expected performance of the detector
are given. The expected radiation tolerance and projected lifetime of the
pixel detector will be discussed as well its impact on the physics program of
CMS.
Author
Aaron Dominguez
(University of Nebraska)
