Published February 21, 2005
| Version v1
Journal article
Operation and performance of the NA60 silicon pixel telescope
Creators
- 1. Now at Universitaet Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany)
- 2. PH Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
- 3. Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon (Portugal)
- 4. Universita di Cagliari and INFN, Cagliari (Italy)
- 5. RIKEN - The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako, Saitama (Japan)
Description
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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2004.10.019;
- PII
- S0168-9002(04)02272-7;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 539
- Journal Issue
- 1-2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 137-145
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37033409
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- CERN SPS SYNCHROTRON; CHARGED PARTICLES; COLLISIONS; DESIGN; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; MULTIPLICITY; NUCLEI; OPERATION; PARTICLE TRACKS; PERFORMANCE; PROTONS; SILICON; TELESCOPES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BARYONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; FERMIONS; HADRONS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEONS; SEMIMETALS; SYNCHROTRONS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.