Evolution of Silicon Sensor Technology in Particle Physics

• Main Author: Hartmann, Frank. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 231
• Subjects: Physics.; Particles (Nuclear physics).; Elementary Particles and Nuclei.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b106762

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'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.