TY - JOUR
T1 - Operation and performance of the NA60 silicon pixel telescope
AU - Banicz, K.
AU - David, A.
AU - Floris, M.
AU - Heuser, J. M.
AU - Keil, M.
AU - Lourenço, C.
AU - Ohnishi, H.
AU - Radermacher, E.
AU - Shahoyan, R.
AU - Usai, G.
PY - 2005/2/21
Y1 - 2005/2/21
N2 - The NA60 experiment studies open charm and prompt dimuon production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS. The high multiplicity of charged tracks produced in heavy-ion collisions imposes the use of silicon pixel detectors to perform an efficient tracking. This paper describes the design and assembly of the pixel telescope and performance results from three detector planes operated in the high charged particle multiplicity conditions of Pb-Pb collisions.
AB - The NA60 experiment studies open charm and prompt dimuon production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS. The high multiplicity of charged tracks produced in heavy-ion collisions imposes the use of silicon pixel detectors to perform an efficient tracking. This paper describes the design and assembly of the pixel telescope and performance results from three detector planes operated in the high charged particle multiplicity conditions of Pb-Pb collisions.
KW - Pixel detector
KW - Vertex detector
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2004.10.019
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2004.10.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:13444267653
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 539
SP - 137
EP - 145
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IS - 1-2
ER -