Development and Production of Silicon Particle Detectors in Austria

Full text: In particle physics experiments such as the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN large numbers of silicon based strip sensors are needed. These sensors are able to precisely detect particles generated in high energy proton-proton collisions and therefore allow reconstructing particle tracks. So far only a few vendors were capable of producing silicon strip sensors with the quality needed in particle physics experiments. Together with an Austrian-based semiconductor manufacturer the Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) (of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) developed such sensors. This talk presents the development, production and electrical characterization of the rst silicon strip sensors produced in Austria. The results from the rst measurements presented in this talk demonstrate the good quality of the newly developed sensors and offer the possibility to establish the Austrian-based semiconductor manufacturer as a high quality vendor for particle physics detectors. (author)