The PHENIX forward silicon vertex detector

0522708 - FZÚ 2020 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Aidala, C. - Anaya, L. - Anderssen, E. - Bambaugh, A. - Barron, A. - Popule, Jiří - Tomášek, Michal - Vrba, Václav … Total 85 authors
The PHENIX forward silicon vertex detector.
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A. Roč. 755, Aug (2014), s. 44-61. ISSN 0168-9002. E-ISSN 1872-9576
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : silicon detector * FVTX * PHENIX * RHIC
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 1.216, year: 2014
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.04.017

A new silicon detector has been developed to provide the PHENIX experiment with precise charged particle tracking at forward and backward rapidity. The Forward Silicon Vertex Tracker (FVTX) was installed in PHENIX prior to the 2012 run period of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The FVTX is composed of two annular endcaps, each with four stations of silicon mini-strip sensors, covering a rapidity range of 1.2<|η|<2.2 that closely matches the two existing PHENIX muon arms. Each station consists of 48 individual silicon sensors, each of which contains two columns of mini-strips with 75 μm pitch in the radial direction and lengths in the ϕ direction varying from 3.4 mm at the inner radius to 11.5 mm at the outer radius. The FVTX has approximately 0.54 million strips in each endcap. These are read out with FPHX chips, developed in collaboration with Fermilab, which are wire bonded directly to the mini-strips.
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