Speaker
Description
The Electron-Proton/Ion Collider (ePIC) Collaboration is preparing the first experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider, a future high-luminosity collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory dedicated to electron-proton and electron-ion collisions. To support the ePIC QCD programme, the ePIC Silicon Vertex Tracker is required to provide precise charged-particle tracking and vertexing close to the interaction point and over a broad acceptance, while meeting stringent requirements on detector granularity, material budget and operational stability.
The Silicon Vertex Tracker is based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors arranged in barrel and forward/backward disk layers. The detector is being developed as a large-area, low-mass, low-power pixel system, with ongoing work on sensors and readout, lightweight mechanical structures, cooling, services, and system-level design and prototyping. This contribution will provide an overview of the detector concept, key design choices and current development status.