The Timepix Telescope for high performance particle tracking
The Timepix particle tracking telescope has been developed as part of the LHCb VELO Upgrade project, supported by the Medipix Collaboration and the AIDA framework. It is a primary piece of infrastructure for the VELO Upgrade project and is being used for the development of new sensors and front end...
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| author | Akiba, K Ronning, P Vanbeuzekom, M Vanbeveren, V Borghi, S Boterenbrood, H Buytaert, J Collins, P Suarez, A Dumps, R Eklund, L Esperante, D Gallas, A Gordon, H van der Heijden, B Hombach, C Hynds, D John, M Leflat, A Li, Y Longstaff, I Morton, A Nakatsuka, N Nomerotski, A Parkes, C |
| author_facet | Akiba, K Ronning, P Vanbeuzekom, M Vanbeveren, V Borghi, S Boterenbrood, H Buytaert, J Collins, P Suarez, A Dumps, R Eklund, L Esperante, D Gallas, A Gordon, H van der Heijden, B Hombach, C Hynds, D John, M Leflat, A Li, Y Longstaff, I Morton, A Nakatsuka, N Nomerotski, A Parkes, C |
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| description | The Timepix particle tracking telescope has been developed as part of the LHCb VELO Upgrade project, supported by the Medipix Collaboration and the AIDA framework. It is a primary piece of infrastructure for the VELO Upgrade project and is being used for the development of new sensors and front end technologies for several upcoming LHC trackers and vertexing systems. The telescope is designed around the dual capability of the Timepix ASICs to provide information about either the deposited charge or the timing information from tracks traversing the 14×14 mm matrix of 55×55μm pixels. The rate of reconstructed tracks available is optimised by taking advantage of the shutter driver readout architecture of the Timepix chip, operated with existing readout systems. Results of tests conducted in the SPS North Area beam facility at CERN show that the telescope typically provides reconstructed track rates during the beam spills of between 3.5 and 7.5 kHz, depending on beam conditions. The tracks are time stamped with 1 ns resolution with an efficiency of above 98% and provide a pointing resolution at the centre of the telescope of ∼1.6μm. By dropping the time stamping requirement the rate can be increased to ∼15kHz, at the expense of a small increase in background. The telescope infrastructure provides CO2 cooling and a flexible mechanical interface to the device under test, and has been used for a wide range of measurements during the 2011-2012 data taking campaigns. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2ea0da22-c10d-4b9f-8b88-3743dd0472de2022-03-26T12:50:02ZThe Timepix Telescope for high performance particle trackingJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:2ea0da22-c10d-4b9f-8b88-3743dd0472deEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Akiba, KRonning, PVanbeuzekom, MVanbeveren, VBorghi, SBoterenbrood, HBuytaert, JCollins, PSuarez, ADumps, REklund, LEsperante, DGallas, AGordon, Hvan der Heijden, BHombach, CHynds, DJohn, MLeflat, ALi, YLongstaff, IMorton, ANakatsuka, NNomerotski, AParkes, CThe Timepix particle tracking telescope has been developed as part of the LHCb VELO Upgrade project, supported by the Medipix Collaboration and the AIDA framework. It is a primary piece of infrastructure for the VELO Upgrade project and is being used for the development of new sensors and front end technologies for several upcoming LHC trackers and vertexing systems. The telescope is designed around the dual capability of the Timepix ASICs to provide information about either the deposited charge or the timing information from tracks traversing the 14×14 mm matrix of 55×55μm pixels. The rate of reconstructed tracks available is optimised by taking advantage of the shutter driver readout architecture of the Timepix chip, operated with existing readout systems. Results of tests conducted in the SPS North Area beam facility at CERN show that the telescope typically provides reconstructed track rates during the beam spills of between 3.5 and 7.5 kHz, depending on beam conditions. The tracks are time stamped with 1 ns resolution with an efficiency of above 98% and provide a pointing resolution at the centre of the telescope of ∼1.6μm. By dropping the time stamping requirement the rate can be increased to ∼15kHz, at the expense of a small increase in background. The telescope infrastructure provides CO2 cooling and a flexible mechanical interface to the device under test, and has been used for a wide range of measurements during the 2011-2012 data taking campaigns. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. |
| spellingShingle | Akiba, K Ronning, P Vanbeuzekom, M Vanbeveren, V Borghi, S Boterenbrood, H Buytaert, J Collins, P Suarez, A Dumps, R Eklund, L Esperante, D Gallas, A Gordon, H van der Heijden, B Hombach, C Hynds, D John, M Leflat, A Li, Y Longstaff, I Morton, A Nakatsuka, N Nomerotski, A Parkes, C The Timepix Telescope for high performance particle tracking |
| title | The Timepix Telescope for high performance particle tracking |
| title_full | The Timepix Telescope for high performance particle tracking |
| title_fullStr | The Timepix Telescope for high performance particle tracking |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Timepix Telescope for high performance particle tracking |
| title_short | The Timepix Telescope for high performance particle tracking |
| title_sort | timepix telescope for high performance particle tracking |
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