EUDET-Memo-2007-52 Air Cooling of Silicon Strip Test Setup for a Linear Collider Experiment Aurore Savoy Navarro

We have investigated the feasibility of using air to cool silicon microstrip detectors prototype in the frame of the EUDET project and the SiLC R&D Collaboration. General advantages of air cooling in HEP experimental conditions include minimal material in the path of the particles and no potential of coolant spills in the silicon region. A prototype cooling system was developed and will be tested with heat source provided by flat resistive heaters. Heat source can load up to 1 mW/channel and will be studied, making the results applicable to various silicon detector systems. The measurements are compared to cooling system performance predictions. A set of simple equations has been identified and tested which reliably describe the lab setup. 1 Silicon Micro Strip Detector Prototype Setup The goal of the R&D on Silicon Tracker systems for the International Linear Collider (ILC) experiments is to study various silicon sensors technology, associated FE electronics and system design geometries allowing high level event characterization and consequently minimizing the overall detector material budget