Performance of long modules of silicon microstrip detectors

This note describes the performance of modules assembled with up to 12 silicon microstrip detectors. These modules were built for the instrumented Silicon Target (STAR) that has been installed in the NOMAD spectrometer, Laboratory and test beam results are compared with model predictions. For a module of nine detectors, test beam results indicate a signal-to-noise ratio of 19, a hit finding efficiency of 99.8% and a spatial resolution of 6.0 mu m. Laboratory measurements indicate that modules of twelve detectors exhibit a signal-to-noise ratio of the order of 16