Studies of mono-crystalline CVD diamond pixel detectors

W. Bugg, M. Hollingsworth, S. Spanier, Z. Yang, E. Bartz, J. Doroshenko, D. Hits, S. Schnetzer, R. Stone, O. Atramentov, R. Patel, A. Barker, R. Hall-Wilton, V. Ryjov, C. Farrow, M. Pernicka, H. Steininger, W. Johns, V. Halyo, B. HarropA. Hunt, D. Marlow, P. Hebda

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Abstract

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope (PLT) is a dedicated luminosity monitor, presently under construction, for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It measures the particle flux in several three layered pixel diamond detectors that are aligned precisely with respect to each other and the beam direction. At a lower rate it also performs particle track position measurements. The PLT's mono-crystalline CVD diamonds are bump-bonded to the same readout chip used in the silicon pixel system in CMS. Mono-crystalline diamond detectors have many attributes that make them desirable for use in charged particle tracking in radiation hostile environments such as the LHC. In order to further characterize the applicability of diamond technology to charged particle tracking we performed several tests with particle beams that included a measurement of the intrinsic spatial resolution with a high resolution beam telescope.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)50-54
Number of pages5
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume650
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 11 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Instrumentation

Keywords

  • CMS
  • Diamond
  • LHC
  • Luminosity
  • Pixel
  • Spatial resolution

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