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physics.ins-det2024

The LHCb VELO Upgrade Module Construction

K. Akiba, M. Alexander, C. Bertella +84

The LHCb detector has undergone a major upgrade for LHC Run 3. This Upgrade I detector facilitates operation at higher luminosity and utilises full-detector information at the LHC…

physics.ins-det2022

Measurement of thermal properties of the LHCb VELO detector using track-based software alignment

The LHCb VELO group

The thermal properties of the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) are studied using the real-time detector alignment procedure. The variation of the position and orientation of the detector…

physics.ins-det2020★ 5 cited

HybridSeeding: A standalone track reconstruction algorithm for scintillating fibre tracker at LHCb

Salvatore Aiola, Yasmine Amhis, Pierre Billoir +8

We describe the Hybrid seeding, a standalone pattern recognition algorithm aiming at finding charged particle trajectories for the LHCb upgrade. A significant improvement to the ch…

physics.ins-det2018★ 27 cited

Mapping the material in the LHCb vertex locator using secondary hadronic interactions

M. Alexander, W. Barter, A. Bay +63

Precise knowledge of the location of the material in the LHCb vertex locator (VELO) is essential to reducing background in searches for long-lived exotic particles, and in identify…

physics.ins-det2013★ 26 cited

Radiation damage in the LHCb Vertex Locator

A. Affolder, K. Akiba, M. Alexander +48

The LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) is a silicon strip detector designed to reconstruct charged particle trajectories and vertices produced at the LHCb interaction region. During the fi…