Measuring the ATLAS ITk Pixel Detector Material via Multiple Scattering of Positrons at the CERN PS
| Autor: | Koch, Simon Florian, Moser, Brian, Lindner, Antonín, Dao, Valerio, Asensi, Ignacio, Bortoletto, Daniela, Brekkum, Marianne, Dachs, Florian, Joos, Hans Ludwig, van Rijnbach, Milou, Sharma, Abhishek, Siral, Ismet, Solans, Carlos, Wei, Yingjie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The ITk is a new silicon tracker for the ATLAS experiment designed to increase detector resolution, readout capacity, and radiation hardness, in preparation for the larger number of simultaneous proton-proton interactions at the High Luminosity LHC. This paper presents the first direct measurement of the material budget of an ATLAS ITk pixel module, performed at a testbeam at the CERN Proton Synchrotron via the multiple scattering of low energy positrons within the module volume. Using a four plane telescope of thin monolithic pixel detectors from the MALTA collaboration, scattering datasets were recorded at a beam energy of $1.2\,\text{GeV}$. Kink angle distributions were extracted from tracks derived with and without information from the ITk pixel module, and were fit to extract the RMS scattering angle, which was converted to a fractional radiation length $x/X_0$. The average $x/X_0$ across the module was measured as $[0.89 \pm 0.01 \text{ (resolution)} \pm 0.01 \text{ (subtraction)} \pm 0.08 \text{ (beam momentum band)}]\%$, which agrees within uncertainties with an estimate of $0.88\%$ derived from material component expectations. Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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