M. Needham

Performance of the LHCb Silicon Tracker in p - p collisions at the LHC

The LHCb detector is designed to study the decays of B-mesons in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The detector is a single arm forward spectrometer with excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities. The Silicon Tracker (ST) consists of two detectors both of which are constructed from silicon micro-strip detectors with long readout strips. The performance of these detectors in the first high energy collisions at the LHC is presented here. The data collected in 2010 has been used to determine the optimal time and spatial alignment of the detectors. A detailed study has also been made of the intrinsic detector efficiency and resolution. The latest results on detector performance will be shown and compared to the expectation from previous measurements and the simulation of the detector.The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) is a single-arm forward spectrometer dedicated to the study of B-meson decays in p - p collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHCb detector has excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities. The LHCb Silicon Tracker (ST) is composed of two silicon micro-strip detectors with long readout strips. The performance of these two detectors with the first high energy p - p collisions are presented here. A detailed study of the detectors intrinsic resolution and efficiency has been performed along with precise time alignment using collision data. The latest Silicon Tracker performance results and comparison to expectations are presented.

Production of the LHCb Silicon Tracker Readout Electronics

A. Vollhardt, A. Bay, B. Carron, P. Fauland, R. Frei, S. Jimenez-Otero, A. Perrin, M.T. Tran, J. van Hunen, K. Vervink, M. Agari, C. Bauer, J. Blouw, W. Hofmann, K.T. Knopfle, S. Lochner, M. Schmelling, B. Schwingenheuer, N. Smale, B. Adeva, D. Esperante, C. Lois, P. Vazquez, R.P. Bernhard, R. Bernet, J. Gassner, S. Kostner, F. Lehner, M. Needham, O. Steinkamp, U. Straumann, D. Volyanskyy, H. Voss, A. Wenger

LHCb Silicon Tracker DAQ and DCS online systems

The LHCb experiment at CERN is designed to perform precision measurements of b quark decays. The Silicon Tracker plays a crucial role in reconstructing particle trajectories and consists of two silicon micro-strip detectors, the Tracker Turicensis and the Inner Tracker. The radiation environment and the magnetic field represent new challenges for the implementation of the Experiment Control System (ECS) and the data acquisition (DAQ). The DAQ has to deal with ~272 000 analog read-out channels and real-time DAQ at a rate of ~ 1.1 MHz with data processing at the Trigger Electronics and L1 (TELL1) board level. The TELL1 real-time algorithms for clustering thresholds and other computations run on dedicated FPGAs. After data processing the total throughput amounts to about 6.4 GB from an input data rate of ~ 337 GB per second. The ECS is based on the hierarchical finite state machine paradigm and allows distributed control access and multi-platform use. The ECS is able to control and monitor the detector hardware infrastructure (power supplies, DAQ electronics ...) as well as monitor the environmental parameters. It can also take automated actions on warnings or alarms. Finally a completely independent, hardware based safety system ensures the detector safe operation.The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva (Switzerland) is designed to perform precision measurements of b quark decays. The Silicon Tracker (ST) plays a crucial role in reconstructing particle trajectories and consists of two silicon micro-strip detectors, the Tracker Turicensis upstream of the LHCb magnet and the Inner Tracker downstream. The radiation environment and the magnetic field represent new challenges for the implementation of a Detector Control System (DCS) and the data acquisition (DAQ).

Performance results of the LHCb Silicon Tracker detector at the LHC

D. Esperante Pereira, B. Adeva, A. Pazos Alvarez, A. Gallas, E. Perez Trigo, P. Rodriguez Perez, J. Saborido, M. Needham, A. Bay, F. Blanc, J. Bressieux, F. Dupertuis, V. Fave, R. Frei, N. Gauvin, G. Haefeli, A. Keune, J. Luisier, R. Muresan, T. Nakada, M. Knecht, O. Schneider, M. Tran, J. Anderson, A. Buechler, A. Bursche, N. Chiapolini, M. De Cian, C. Elsasser, C. Salzmann, S. Saornil, S. Steiner, O. Steinkamp, U. Straumann, J. van Tilburg, M. Tobin, A. Vollhardt, O. Aquines Gutierrez, C. Bauer, M. Britsch, F. Maciuc, M. Schmelling, H. Voss, V. Iakovenko, O. Okhrimenko, V. Pugatch