The STAR MAPS-based PiXeL detector
Instrumentation and Detectors
2018-11-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
The PiXeL detector (PXL) for the Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) of the STAR experiment at RHIC is the first application of the state-of-the-art thin Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) technology in a collider environment. Custom built pixel sensors, their readout electronics and the detector mechanical structure are described in detail. Selected detector design aspects and production steps are presented. The detector operations during the three years of data taking (2014-2016) and the overall performance exceeding the design specifications are discussed in the conclusive sections of this paper.
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@article{arxiv.1710.02176,
title = {The STAR MAPS-based PiXeL detector},
author = {Giacomo Contin and Leo Greiner and Joachim Schambach and Michal Szelezniak and Eric Anderssen and Jacque Bell and Mario Cepeda and Thomas Johnson and Hao Qiu and Hans-Georg Ritter and Joseph Silber and Thorsten Stezelberger and Xiangming Sun and Co Tran and Chinh Vu and Howard Wieman and Kenneth Wilson and Rhonda Witharm and Samuel Woodmansee and John Wolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02176},
year = {2018}
}