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Evaluation of HPK n plus -p planar pixel sensors for the CMS Phase-2 upgrade

Konstantin Androsov, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Andrea Rizzi, Thomas Muller, David Vannerom

To cope with the challenging environment of the planned high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), scheduled to start operation in 2029, CMS will replace its entire tracking system. The requirements for the tracker are largely determine ...

Elsevier2023

Test beam performance of a CBC3-based mini-module for the Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker before and after neutron irradiation

Simone Scarfì, Varun Sharma, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Andrea Rizzi, Thomas Muller

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will undergo major upgrades to increase the instantaneous luminosity up to 5-7.5 x 1034 cm-2s-1. This High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) will deliver a total of 3000-4000 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at ...

2023

Beam test performance of a prototype module with Short Strip ASICs for the CMS HL-LHC tracker upgrade

Simone Scarfì, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Tian Cheng, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Andrea Rizzi

The Short Strip ASIC (SSA) is one of the four front-end chips designed for the upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker for the High Luminosity LHC. Together with the Macro-Pixel ASIC (MPA) it will instrument modules containing a strip and a macro-pixel sensor sta ...

2022

The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

Simone Scarfì, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Tian Cheng, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Andrea Rizzi

The CMS detector at the CERN LHC features a silicon pixel detector as its innermost subdetector. The original CMS pixel detector has been replaced with an upgraded pixel system (CMS Phase-1 pixel detector) in the extended year-end technical stop of the LHC ...

2021

OT-μDTC, a test bench for testing CMS Outer Tracker Phase-2 module prototypes

Alessandro Caratelli, Davide Ceresa, Simone Scarfì

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment plans to replace its strip tracker system with a completely new Outer Tracker system to cope with the higher luminosity, compared to Run 2 operation, provided by the HL-LHC. This CMS Phase-2 Outer Tracker will be ...

Proceedings Of Science2020

Beam test performance of prototype silicon detectors for the Outer Tracker for the Phase-2 Upgrade of CMS

Qian Wang, Simone Scarfì, Varun Sharma, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Tian Cheng, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Andrea Rizzi, David Vannerom

A new CMS tracker detector will be installed for operation at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). This detector comprises modules with two closely spaced parallel sensor plates and front-end ASICs capable of transmitting tracking information to the CMS Level ...

2020

MPA-SSA, design and test of a 65 nm ASIC-based system for particle tracking at HL-LHC featuring on-chip particle discrimination

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Caratelli, Davide Ceresa, Simone Scarfì

Particle tracking detectors for High Energy Physics need a new readout technique to cope with the increase of the collision rate foreseen for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade. In particular, the selection of interesting physics events at the first trigger s ...

IEEE2019

The DAQ and control system for the CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

Qian Wang, Simone Scarfì, Varun Sharma, Chia-Chun Chen, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Tian Cheng, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Andrea Rizzi

In 2017 a new pixel detector was installed in the CMS detector. This so-called Phase-1 pixel detector features four barrel layers in the central region and three disks per end in the forward regions. The upgraded pixel detector requires an upgraded data ac ...

2019

System Level simulation framework for the ASICs development of a novel particle physics detector

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Caratelli, Davide Ceresa, Simone Scarfì

The simulation of the passage of particles through matter using Monte Carlo methods is broadly used in the development of particle detectors for high energy physics experiments. To develop the readout electronics for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experim ...

IEEE2018

A 65nm pixel readout ASIC with quick transverse momentum discrimination capabilities for the CMS Tracker at HL-LHC

Alessandro Caratelli, Davide Ceresa

A readout ASIC for the hybrid pixel detector with the capability of performing quick recognition of particles with high transverse momentum has been designed for the requirements of the CMS Outer Tracker at the High Luminosity LHC. The particle momentum di ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016