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It is expected that the LHC accelerator and experiments will undergo a luminosity upgrade which will commence after several years of running. This part of the LHC operations is referred to as Super-LHC (SLHC) and is expected to provide…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Foudas , A. Rose , J. Jones , G. Hall

The CMS pixel detector is the innermost component of the CMS tracker occupying the region around the centre of CMS, where the LHC beams are crossed, between 4.3 cm and 30 cm in radius and 46.5 cm along the beam axis. It operates in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Viktor Veszpremi

The CMS pixel detector consists of approximately 66 million silicon pixels whose analog signals are read out by 15,840 programmable Readout Chips. With the recent startup of the LHC, the detector is now collecting data used for precise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-08-31 B. Kreis

The pixel detector is the innermost tracking device in CMS, reconstructing interaction vertices and charged particle trajectories. The sensors located in the innermost layers of the pixel detector must be upgraded for the ten-fold increase…

The high-luminosity upgrade of the CERN LHC requires the replacement of the CMS tracking detector to cope with the increased radiation fluence while maintaining its excellent performance. An extensive R\&D program, aiming at using 3D pixel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-16 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is one of two general-purpose detectors that measure the products of high energy particle interactions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The silicon pixel detector is the innermost…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-03 Tamas Almos Vami , Viktor Veszpremi , the CMS Collaboration

The LHC machine is planning an upgrade program, which will smoothly bring the instantaneous luminosity to about $5-7.5\times10^{34}~\mathrm{cm}^{-2}\mathrm{s}^{-1}$ in 2028, to possibly reach an integrated luminosity of 3000-4500 fb$^{-1}$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-07 Ernesto Migliore

The CMS collaboration is building a new inner tracking pixel detector for the High-Luminosity LHC. Each pixel readout chip will be controlled with a single serial input stream at 160 Mbps and will send out data via four current mode logic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-07 Caleb Smith

The next upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is planned from 2026 when the collider will move to its High Luminosity phase (HL-LHC). The CMS detector needs to be substantially upgraded during this period to exploit the fourfold…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-01 Tamas Almos Vami , Morris Swartz

Results obtained with 3D columnar pixel sensors bump-bonded to the RD53A prototype readout chip are reported. The interconnected modules have been tested in a hadron beam before and after irradiation to a fluence of about…

The CMS silicon tracker consists of two tracking devices utilizing semiconductor technology: the inner pixel and the outer strip detectors. They operate in a high-occupancy and high-radiation environment presented by particle collisions in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Viktor Veszpremi

We report on preliminary design studies of a pixel detector for CMS at the Super-LHC. The goal of these studies was to investigate the possibility of designing an inner tracker pixel detector whose data could be used for selecting events at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Jones , G. Hall , C. Foudas , A. Rose

The pixel detector is the innermost tracking device of the CMS experiment at the LHC. It is built from two independent sub devices, the pixel barrel and the end disks. The barrel consists of three concentric layers around the beam pipe with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Chr. Kästli , W. Bertl , W. Erdmann , K. Gabathuler , Ch. Hörmann , R. Horisberger , S. König , D. Kotlinski , B. Meier , P. Robmann , T. Rohe , S. Streuli

The Pixel Detector is the innermost detector of the tracking system of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It precisely determines the interaction point (primary vertex) of the events and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-14 Chang-Seong Moon , Aurore Savoy-Navarro

The CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer (CT-PPS) is an approved project to add tracking and timing information at approximately $\pm$210~m from the interaction point around the CMS detector. It is designed to operate at high luminosity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Michele Gallinaro

A large fraction of the results produced by the LHC experiments during the first run were made possible by precision vertexing detectors. The all-silicon tracking detector of the CMS experiment uses a pixel detector to do vertexing. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-19 Frank Meier

At the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the CMS experiment will face a harsh environment with a high instantaneous luminosity up to 7x10$^{34}$/cm$^2$/s corresponding to an average of 140-200 multiple proton-proton collisions per bunch…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-04 Chang-Seong Moon

A precise and efficient tracking is one of the critical components of the CMS physics program as it impacts the ability to reconstruct the physics objects needed to understand proton-proton collisions at the LHC. The CMS detector has…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-14 Walaa Elmetenawee

A new tracking detector will be installed as part of the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS detector for the high-luminosity LHC era. This tracking detector includes the Inner Tracker, equipped with silicon pixel sensor modules, and the Outer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-02 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments ATLAS and CMS have established hybrid pixel detectors as the instrument of choice for particle tracking and vertexing in high rate and radiation environments, as they operate close to the LHC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 Maurice Garcia-Sciveres , Norbert Wermes