The silicon vertex telescope of the NA60 experiment

André David; M. Floris; G. Usai; K. Banicz; M. Keil; C. Lourenço; E. Radermacher; R. Shahoyan; J. Heuser; H. Ohnishi

The silicon vertex telescope of the NA60 experiment

André David, M. Floris, G. Usai, K. Banicz, M. Keil, C. Lourenço, E. Radermacher, R. Shahoyan, J. Heuser, H. Ohnishi

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The NA60 experiment at CERN studies the production of open charm and prompt dimuons in collisions of high energy protons or heavy ions with target nuclei. The physics program relies on the precise measurement of the charged particles’ positions and momenta at the vertex. Tracking starts already a few centimetres away from the target in a radiation tolerant silicon detector placed in a 2.5 T dipole magnetic field. During several weeks of running in 2003 and 2004, this vertex tracker was exposed to high levels of inhomogeneously distributed radiation. In this paper we describe the construction, operation and performance of this novel, LHC-era detector.

Original language	English
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	21
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	2005 International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, HEP 2005 - Lisboa, Portugal Duration: 2005 Jul 21 → 2005 Jul 27

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The silicon vertex telescope of the NA60 experiment

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