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Title: Silicon vertex tracker for RHIC PHENIX Experiment

Journal Article · · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A
OSTI ID:1020854

The PHENIX experiment at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider will be equipped with Silicon Vertex tracker to enhance its physics capability. There are four layers of silicon sensor to reconstruct charged tracks with 50 {micro}m resolution of decay length measurement. The VTX surrounds the collision point. The inner two layers and the outer two layers are composed of 30 pixel ladders and 44 stripixel ladders, respectively. We have been developing these detectors and done a performance test with 120 GeV proton beam.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). RIKEN Research Center
Sponsoring Organization:
RIKEN
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
1020854
Report Number(s):
BNL-94562-2011-JA; TRN: US1103854
Journal Information:
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A, Vol. 623, Issue 1; Conference: 1st International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English