6 papers
Cracking under pressure --- investigating mitigation approaches for silicon fractures on ATLAS strip tracker petals at cold temperatures
S. H. Abidi, J. -H. Arling, M. J. Basso +35
For the High-Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS experiment will replace its current Inner Detector with an all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk), consisting of pi…
Silicon pinhole strip defects and their impact on ATLAS Inner Tracker HV current measurement
Anthony Affolder, Kirsten Affolder, Emily Duden +11
In preparation for the High-Luminsoity LHC (HL-LHC), the ATLAS detector will undergo major detector upgrades, including the replacement of the current Inner Detector with the new a…
Silicon Wafer Fracture Stress for Tracking Sensors in Particle Physics Experiments
Haider Abidi, Vitaliy Fadeyev, Tim Jones +6
For the construction of the ATLAS Inner Tracker strip detector, silicon strip sensor modules are glued directly onto carbon fibre support structures using a soft silicone gel. Duri…
Test beam measurements and computer simulations of the ATLAS ITk R2 silicon strip detector
Jan-Hendrik Arling, Pavol Federic, Yajun He +13
The ATLAS Inner Tracker, the future innermost part of the ATLAS detector, is an all-silicon tracker composed of pixel and strip modules, designed to cope with the extreme condition…
Investigating the impact of the diode edge geometry on the effective active area of silicon sensors using AREA-X
Luise Poley, Ian Dyckes, Javier Fernandez-Tejero +3
Sensors for particle tracking detectors are required to provide a maximum active area in addition to fulfilling performance criteria concerning radiation hardness, charge collectio…
Quality Concerns Caused by Quality Control -- deformation of silicon strip detector modules in thermal cycling tests
Richard Salami, Luise Poley, Kirsten Affolder +31
The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently preparing to replace its present Inner Detector (ID) with the upgraded, all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) for its…