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The Belle II experiment, located at the SuperKEKB collider at the high-energy research facility KEK in Tsukuba, Japan, started operation in 2018. Compared to the predecessor experiment Belle, Belle II plans to increase the peak luminosity…

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The ATLAS inner detector is used to reconstruct secondary vertices due to hadronic interactions of primary collision products, so probing the location and amount of material in the inner region of ATLAS. Data collected in 7 TeV pp…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 ATLAS Collaboration

The CMS experiment will include a pixel detector for pattern recognition and vertexing. It will consist of three barrel layers and two endcaps on each side, providing three space-points up to a pseudoraditity of 2.1. Taking into account the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Horisberger , D. Kotlinski , T. Rohe

We present a Bayesian approach to particle identification (PID) within the ALICE experiment. The aim is to more effectively combine the particle identification capabilities of its various detectors. After a brief explanation of the adopted…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-05-30 ALICE Collaboration

ALICE is the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the LHC at CERN and records lead-lead collisions at a rate of up to 50 kHz. The detector with the highest data rate of up to 3.4 TB/s is the TPC. ALICE performs the full online TPC processing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-24 David Rohr

To measure light emission pattern in scintillator, higher sensitivity and faster response are required to photo detector. Such as single photon avalanche diode (SPAD), conventional pixelated photo detector is operated at Geiger avalanche…

Silicon pixel modules employing n-in-p planar sensors with an active thickness of 200 $\mu$m, produced at CiS, and 100-200 $\mu$m thin active/slim edge sensor devices, produced at VTT in Finland have been interconnected to ATLAS FE-I3 and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Terzo , A. Macchiolo , R. Nisius , B. Paschen

We discuss how a level-1 trigger, about 8 us after a hadron-hadron collision, can be derived from the Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) in A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the LHC. Chamber-wise track segments from fast…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jochen Klein

We present the results of the characterization of silicon pixel modules employing n-in-p planar sensors with an active thickness of 150 $\mathrm{\mu}$m, produced at MPP/HLL, and 100-200 $\mathrm{\mu}$m thin active edge sensor devices,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Terzo , L. Andricek , A. Macchiolo , H. G. Moser , R. Nisius , R. H. Richter , P. Weigell

3D silicon pixel detectors have been investigated as radiation-hard candidates for the innermost layers of the HL-LHC upgrade of the ATLAS pixel detector. 3D detectors are already in use today in the ATLAS IBL and AFP experiments. These are…

During the scheduled high luminosity upgrade of LHC, the world's largest particle physics accelerator at CERN, the position sensitive silicon detectors installed in the vertex and tracking part of the CMS experiment will face more intense…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-21 T. Peltola

In order to fully exploit the physics potential of a e+e- linear collider, such as TESLA, a Vertex Tracker providing high resolution track reconstruction is required. Hybrid Silicon pixel sensors are an attractive sensor technology option…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Battaglia , M. Caccia , S. Borghi , R. Campagnolo , K. Domanski , P. Grabiec , B. Jaroszewicz , J. Marczewski , D. Tomaszewski , W. Kucewicz , A. Zalewska , K. Tammi

The ALICE detector is undergoing an upgrade for Run 3 at the LHC. A new Inner Tracking System (ITS) is part of this upgrade. The upgraded ALICE ITS features the ALPIDE, a Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor. Due to IC fabrication variations and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-11 Shiming Yuan , Johan Alme , Markus Keil , Ivan Ravasenga , Matthias Richter , Dieter Röhrich

The ALICE Collaboration measures the production of low-mass dielectrons in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. The main detectors used in the analyses are the Inner Tracking System, Time Projection Chamber and Time-Of-Flight detector,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Patrick Reichelt

In these proceedings we report on the status of the ALICE Time-Of-Flight (TOF) detector. The running performance of the Run 1 (2009-2013) and Run 2 (2015-present) data taking campaigns are compared. The Particle IDentification (PID)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-05 Nicolò Jacazio

In view of the LHC upgrade for the High Luminosity Phase (HL-LHC), the ATLAS experiment is planning to replace the Inner Detector with an all-Silicon system. The n-in-p bulk technology represents a valid solution for the modules of most of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Calderini , A. Bagolini , M. Bomben , M. Boscardin , L. Bosisio , J. Chauveau , G. Giacomini , A. La Rosa , G. Marchiori , N. Zorzi

Owing to their intrinsic (geometry dependent) radiation hardness, 3D pixel sensors are promising candidates for the innermost tracking layers of the forthcoming experiment upgrades at the Phase 2 High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). To this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 DMS Sultan , Gian-Franco Dalla Betta , Roberto Mendicino , Maurizio Boscardin , Sabina Ronchin , Nicola Zorzi

After the successful installation and first operation of the new Inner Tracking System (ITS2), which consists of about 10 m$^2$ of monolithic silicon pixel sensors, ALICE is pioneering the usage of bent, wafer-scale pixel sensors for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-13 Jory Sonneveld

Major advances in silicon pixel detectors, with outstanding timing performance, have recently attracted significant attention in the community. In this work we present and discuss the use of state-of-the-art Geiger-mode APDs, also known as…