Evolution of Silicon Sensor Technology in Particle Physics

• Main Author: Hartmann, Frank (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 231
• Subjects: Physics.; Nuclear physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.

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 p...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Principles of a Silicon Detector
• First Steps With Silicon Sensors: NA11 (Proof of Principle)
• The DELPHI Microvertex Detector at LEP
• CDF; the World#x2019;s Largest Silicon Detector in the 20th Century; the First Silicon Detector at a Hadron Collider
• CMS; Increasing Size by two Orders of Magnitude
• Continuing the Story: Detectors for the SLHC and the ILC
• Conclusion and Outlook.