The CDF trigger silicon vertex tracker (SVT)

Author

Belforte, S. ; Dell´Orso, M. ; Donati, S. ; Gagliardi, G. ; Galeotti, S. ; Giannetti, P. ; Morsani, F. ; Passuello, D. ; Punzi, G. ; Ristori, L. ; Sciacca, G. ; Turini, N. ; Zanetti, A.M.

Author_Institution

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucl., Pisa, Italy

Volume

42

Issue

4

fYear

1995

fDate

8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

860

Lastpage

864

Abstract

The design is presented for a device presently being built to perform on line track finding and reconstruction for the CDF (Collider Detector at Fermilab) Silicon Vertex Detector (120 k channels). This device will provide track impact parameter information for the CDF Level 2 trigger decision, thus allowing CDF to trigger on events containing a long lived particle, in particular a b-quark. It will be the first device with such a capability installed at a proton-antiproton collider. The capability to separate b decays early in the trigger process is vital to the CDF program to collect a high statistic b sample to attack the study of CP violation in the b sector. Moreover SVT will open access to non-leptonic b decays like B→ππ

Keywords

detector circuits; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; silicon radiation detectors; trigger circuits; CDF trigger silicon vertex tracker; CP violation; Si; line track finding; proton-antiproton collider; track impact parameter information; Associative memory; Delay; Detectors; Hardware; Particle tracking; Roads; Silicon; Spatial resolution; Statistics; Time factors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.467779

Filename

467779