Evolution of Silicon Sensor Technology in Particle Physics

• Main Author: Hartmann, Frank (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 275
• Subjects: Physics.; Particle acceleration.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

This informative monograph describes the technological evolution of silicon detectors and their impact on high energy particle physics. The author here marshals his own first-hand experience in the development and also the realization of the DELPHI, CDF II and the CMS tracking detector. The basic pr...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Principles of a Silicon Detector
• Radiation Damage in Silicon Detector Devices
• First Steps with Silicon Sensors: NA11 (Proof of Principle)
• The DELPHI Microvertex Detector at LEP
• CDF: The World's Largest Silicon Detector in the 20th Century; the First Silicon Detector at a Hadron Collider
• CMS: Increasing Size by two Orders of Magnitude
• CMS Phase 2: Tracker Upgrade and High Granularity Forward Calorimeter
• Continuing the Story: Detectors for a Future Linear Collider (ILC) or a Future Circular Collider (FCC)
• Conclusion and Outlook
• Glossary.