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Sep 2 – 9, 2007
Victoria, Canada
Europe/Zurich timezone
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Overview of the Inner Silicon detector alignment procedure and techniques in the RHIC/STAR experiment

Sep 5, 2007, 2:40 PM
20m
Carson Hall A (Victoria, Canada)

Carson Hall A

Victoria, Canada

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Speaker

Dr Yuri Fisyak (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

Description

The STAR experiment was primarily designed to detect signals of a possible phase transition in nuclear matter. Its layout, typical for a collider experiment, contains a large Time Projection Chamber (TPC) in a Solenoid Magnet, a set of four layers of combined silicon strip and silicon drift detectors for secondary vertex reconstruction plus other detectors. In this presentation, we will report on recent global and individual detector element alignment as well as drift velocity calibration work performed on this STAR inner silicon tracking system. We will show how attention to details positively impacts the Physics capabilities of STAR and explain the iterative procedure conducted to reach such result in low, medium and high track density / detector occupancy.

Primary authors

Dr Gene VAN BUREN (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY) Dr Jerome LAURET (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY) Prof. Spyridon MARGETIS (Kent State University, USA) Dr Yuri Fisyak (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

Co-authors

Mr Ivan KOTOV (Ohio State University, USA) Mr Jonathan BOUCHET (Subatech, France) Mr Rafael Derradi de Souza (Instituto de Fisica da Universidade de Sao Paulo) Mr Victor Perevoztchikov (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

Presentation materials