Title :
Operational experience with the CDF Run II silicon detector
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
fDate :
Oct. 24 2009-Nov. 1 2009
Abstract :
The CDF Run II Silicon Detector is the largest operating silicon detector in High Energy Physics. Its approximately 750,000 channels spread over 7 m2 of silicon micro-strip sensors allow precision tracking and vertexing. The CDF silicon detector played a critical role in the discovery of Bs mixing and is used extensively for the current Higgs Boson searches. Over the last 8 years, the detector efficiency has remained stable at 95% after the Run II commissioning period. We discuss the problems with the infrastructure (cooling, power supplies, etc) that we have encountered.
Keywords :
position sensitive particle detectors; silicon radiation detectors; CDF Run II silicon detector; Higgs boson searches; high energy physics; operational experience; precision tracking; silicon micro-strip sensors; Aluminum; Coolants; Cooling; Detectors; Humans; Instruments; Power supplies; Silicon; Temperature; Welding; CDF; Silicon detector; cooling; tracker; vertex detector;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3961-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402191
