Jonathan Fulcher
(Imperial College)
26/09/2006, 16:20
Oral
The CMS Silicon Tracker is comprised of a complicated set of hardware and software
components that have been thoroughly tested at CERN before final integration of the
Tracker. A vertical slice of the full readout chain has been operated under
near-final conditions. In the absence of the tracker front-end modules, simulated
events have been created within the FED and used to test the...
Vasiliki Mitsou
(Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)
26/09/2006, 16:45
Oral
The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) together with the pixel detector and the Transition
Radiation Tracker (TRT) form the central tracking system of the ATLAS experiment at
the LHC. It consists of single-sided microstrip silicon sensors, which are read out
via binary ASICs based on the DMILL technology and the data are transmitted via
optical fibres. After an overview of the SCT detector layout...
Trevor Vickey
(Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Physics)
26/09/2006, 17:10
Oral
I present an overview of a read-out driver (ROD) for silicon detectors in the ATLAS
experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Two silicon-based ATLAS tracking
systems, referred to as the Pixel Detector and the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT), are
controlled and read-out using a common 9U VME board. A hybrid design of Field
Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Digital Signal Processors...
Aldo Saavedra
(Glasgow)
26/09/2006, 17:35
Oral
LHCb is the only dedicated $B$ physics experiment on the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring. It is an spectrometer whose
vertex detector(VeLo) has been optimise for the reconstruction of
vertices near the beam. This is achieved by placing the silicon
strip detector modules inside
the primary beam pipe. Hence they are expected to operate in vacuum
(10$^{-6}$mbar) and withstand high levels...
Samuele Antinori
(Department of Physics & INFN Bologna)
26/09/2006, 18:00
Oral
The paper presents the design and test of the final prototype of the CARLOS end
ladder board. This board is able to compress data coming from one Silicon Drift
Detector (SDD) front-end electronics and to send them towards the data concentrator
card CARLOSrx in counting room via a 800 MBit/s optical link. The board design faces
several constraints, mainly size (54x49 mm) and radiation...