Title :
Performance of the LHCb Silicon Tracker in pp collisions at the LHC
Author_Institution :
Phys. Inst., Univ. Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
fDate :
Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010
Abstract :
The LHCb detector is designed to study the decays of B-mesons in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The detector is a single arm forward spectrometer with excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities. The Silicon Tracker (ST) consists of two detectors both of which are constructed from silicon micro-strip detectors with long readout strips. The performance of these detectors in the first high energy collisions at the LHC is presented here. The data collected in 2010 has been used to determine the optimal time and spatial alignment of the detectors. A detailed study has also been made of the intrinsic detector efficiency and resolution. The latest results on detector performance will be shown and compared to the expectation from previous measurements and the simulation of the detector.
Keywords :
nuclear electronics; readout electronics; silicon radiation detectors; spectrometers; B-meson decay; LHCb detector; LHCb silicon tracker; detector performance; high energy collisions; intrinsic detector efficiency; intrinsic detector resolution; long readout strips; particle identification capabilities; proton+proton collisions; silicon microstrip detectors; single arm forward spectrometer; spatial alignment; Charge measurement; Data models; Detectors; Large Hadron Collider; Silicon; Strips;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Knoxville, TN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9106-3
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873899