PSD12: The 12th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors

Radiation Damage to Pixel Sensors in the ATLAS Detector: measurements and modelling

Not scheduled

20m

Teaching and Learning Building (University of Birmingham)

poster Advances in Pixel Detectors and Integration Technologies

Speaker

Clara Troncon (Milano Universita e INFN (IT))

Description

Silicon pixel detectors are at the core of the current and planned upgrade of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). As the closest detector component to the interaction point, these detectors will be subjected to a significant amount of radiation over their lifetime: prior to the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the innermost layers will receive a fluence of 1-5 10**15 1 MeV neq/cm2 and the HL-HLC detector upgrades must cope with an order of magnitude higher fluence integrated over their lifetimes. Simulating radiation damage is critical in order to make accurate predictions for current future detector performance. A model of pixel digitization is presented that includes radiation damage effects to the ATLAS pixel sensors for the first time. In addition to a thorough description of the setup, predictions are presented for basic pixel cluster properties alongside measurements with LHC Run 2 proton-proton collision data which validate the methodology.