Radiation damage effects and operation of the LHCb vertex locator
- Akiba, K.
- Alexander, M.
- Barter, W.
- Bell, L.
- Bogdanova, G.
- Borghi, S.
- Bowcock, T.
- Buchanan, E.
- Buytaert, J.
- de Capua, S.
- Chen, S.
- Collins, P.
- Crocombe, A.
- Dall'Occo, E.
- Dean, C.
- Dettori, F.
- Dreimanis, K.
- Dujany, G.
- Eklund, L.
- Evans, T.
- Gersabeck, M.
- Gershon, T.
- Hadavizadeh, T.
- Harrison, J.
- Hennessy, K.
- Hulsbergen, W.
- Hutchcroft, D.
- Jans, E.
- John, M.
- Kopciewicz, P.
- Koppenburg, P.
- Lafferty, G.
- Latham, T.
- Leflat, A.
- Majewski, M.
- Marinho, F.
- Mylroie-Smith, J.
- Oblakowska-Mucha, A.
- Parkes, C.
- Pearce, A.
- Poluektov, A.
- Pritchard, A.
- Qian, W.
- Redford, S.
- Richards, S.
- Rinnert, K.
- Rodrigues, E.
- Rodriguez, P.
- Schiller, Manuel
- Smith, M.
- Szumlak, T.
- van Beuzekom, M.
- Velthuis, J.
- Volkov, V.
- Wark, H.
- Webber, A.
- Williams, M.
DOIAbstract
Vertex locator (VELO) is a silicon microstrip detector situated around the interaction point in the large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) spectrometer at the Large Hadron Collider. The LHCb experiment is dedicated to studying charge conjugation and parity symmetry violation in the heavy flavor sector and rare decays of B mesons. The precise reconstruction of both the primary and secondary vertices, obtained by the VELO, is crucial in the selection of signal events containing b and c quarks and lifetime measurements. VELO consists of two retractable parts that operate at 8 mm from the interaction region. Its proximity to proton beams makes the LHCb VELO a place for studying radiation damage effects in silicon detectors in proton–proton and hea...
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