Conveners
Applications in Particle Physics
- Daniela Bortoletto (University of Oxford (GB))
The LHCb experiment has been upgraded during the second long shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and the new detector is currently operating at the LHC. The Vertex Locator (VELO) is the detector surrounding the interaction region of the LHCb experiment, responsible of reconstructing the proton-proton collision (primary vertices) as well as the decay vertices of long-lived particles...
In the high-luminosity era of the Large Hadron Collider, the instantaneous luminosity is expected to reach unprecedented values, resulting in up to 200 proton-proton interactions in a typical bunch crossing. To cope with the resulting increase in occupancy, bandwidth and radiation damage, the ATLAS Inner Detector will be replaced by an all-silicon system, the Inner Tracker (ITk). The innermost...
In June 2022 the data-taking of the Belle II experiment was stopped for the Long Shutdown 1, primarily required to install the new two-layer DEPFET detector (PXD) and upgrade components of the accelerator. In May 2023 the whole silicon tracker (VXD) was extracted from Belle II and the new VXD commissioning phase began to be ready to take data by the end of 2023. We describe the challenges and...
The CMS Outer Tracker phase-2 upgrade is conditioned by the planned high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project. The high radiation levels and the large pileup require a high granularity and low mass detector and the capability to handle high data rates. The OT modules will provide hit information to the Level 1 Trigger to form track segments, which allows to keep the trigger rates at a sustainable...
