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STAR Silicon Vertex Tracker Detector (SVT) Update

STAR Silicon Vertex Tracker Detector (SVT) Update. Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument - Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829). Helen Caines - Yale University. Presentation Overview. SVT Introduction SVT Performance

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STAR Silicon Vertex Tracker Detector (SVT) Update

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  1. STAR Silicon Vertex Tracker Detector (SVT) Update Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument - Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) Helen Caines - Yale University

  2. Presentation Overview • SVT Introduction • SVT Performance • Track-to-Hit Matching • Vertex Reconstruction • Energy Loss • Strange Particle Decays • Summary & Conclusions

  3. Welcome to BNL- RHIC!

  4. The STAR Detector Time Projection Chamber FTPCs (1 +1) Vertex Position Detectors Magnet Coils Silicon Vertex Tracker * TPC Endcap & MWPC ZCal ZCal Endcap Calorimeter Barrel EM Calorimeter Central Trigger Barrel + TOF patch RICH * yr.1 SVT ladder • 1st year, 2nd year,year-by-year until 2003, installation in 2003

  5. SVT Installation Installed for the first time 2001-2 RHIC run

  6. p-p vs Au-Au at √sNN=200 GeV Two very different environments: p-p - Few tracks, primary vertex not well known high luminosity Au-Au – Few 1000 tracks Vertex well located Track/hit merging

  7. SVT Design Each wafer is 6.3 cm x 6.3 cm area 300 mm thick - 0.3%X0 Average radiation length seen by a particle 4.5%X0 incl. fee cards etc. Consists of 216 wafers 3 Barrels Outer radius – 15cm Middle Radius – 10cm Inner radius - 6cm Length - 21cm Inner barrel has 8 ladders – 4 wafers/ladder Middle barrel has 12 ladders – 6 wafers/ladder Outer barrel has 16 ladders – 7 wafers/ladder

  8. Silicon Drift Detector - Principle Ionizing particle Z - position from readout anode number Drift time ~ 5 msec 240 Anodes/wafer 100 samples/anode SDD R - position from drift time X Electron cloud Gain : 1 e- = 7.2mV 4 mV = 1 ADC

  9. Calibrations - Pedestals First Time bucket Pedestal Subtraction done online Other 127 Time buckets Anode You can see the edges of the 15 PASA’s and more obviously the 3 analogue buffers where the multiplexing occurs 96.5% of 103,680 channels operational 91.2% of 103,680 channels used in analysis

  10. SVT Performance counts Noise: 7 mV for pp 12 mV for Au+Au (due to a grounding problem now fixed) 4 mV design (<7 mV aim) cm • 30 mm resolution reproducibility

  11. Drift Velocity Calibration SDD’s modeled using 2 drift velocities. One in the drift region and one in the focusing region There is a temperature dependence across the wafer which must be accounted for.

  12. SVT Temperature Control Au-Au

  13. Hit to Track Matching Au-Au Mixed events Closest hit Au-Au Closest hit Real events Yes! TPC inner radius = 50cm SVT outer radius = 15cm Project tracks from TPC to SVT Are we matching correctly?

  14. Drift Residuals vs Wafer After Alignment Magnitudes agree with survey results Before Alignment Shifted center of SVT Relative to TPC by x=-0.276cm y=-0.82cm 2 3 1

  15. Using SVT for TPC Calibration Track dip angle < 0.1 mean D(Z) = 0.0526cm vdrift = 5.56 cm/msec TPC T0 shift = 0.0526/5.56 = 9.46 x 10-3 msec After Corrections Shift in Z + TPC T0/Vdrift wrong

  16. Vertex Finding - Resolution p-p STAR Preliminary Z offset of 0.005cm – Aligned in Z

  17. Anode Residuals vs pt STAR Preliminary Pt resolutionworse at low pt where energy loss and scattering not yet taken into account Au-Au

  18. Primary Matching “efficiency” Efficiency is defined as the number of tracks with SVT hits added (2 or more) p-p If you go to ±30cm average effic is 45% Flat in pt Expect ~85% from simulation of perfect detector p-p

  19. Impact Parameter Improvement 3D impact parameters of track associated to primary vertex  should be close to zero pp: Mean 0.7->0.51 cm RMS 0.59->0.48 cm TPC TPC+SVT cm

  20. Energy Loss in the SVT Layers • 3 sample maximum • Higher energy resolution • Good for low momentum Preliminary Preliminary p • Independent measure of dE/dx • Allows 2D cut

  21. Strange Particle Decays + V0 Reconstruction - • Black is TPC only • Red is TPC+SVT ~35-40% greater yield in K0s region Preliminary Preliminary • Blue is TPC only • Red is TPC+SVT Mostly low pT

  22. Summary & Conclusions • Sharpens the primary vertex reconstruction • Improved PID • More precise low pT tracking • Enhanced analyses (already ~40% more K0) • To Do: • Improve noise reduction • Understand track to hit matching • Take more data!

  23. The STAR Collaboration Russia: MEPHI - Moscow LPP/LHE JINR - Dubna IHEP - Protvino U.S. Labs: Argonne Berkeley Brookhaven U.S. Universities: Arkansas University UC Berkeley UC Davis UC Los Angeles Carnegie Mellon University Creighton University Indiana University Kent State University Michigan State University City College of New York Ohio State University Penn. State University Purdue University Rice University Texas A&M UT Austin Washington University Wayne State University Yale University Brazil: Universidade de Sao Paolo China: IHEP – Beijing, IMP - Lanzou IPP – Wuhan USTC SINR – Shanghai Tsinghua University England: University of Birmingham France: IReS Strasbourg SUBATECH - Nantes Germany: MPI – Munich University of Frankfurt India: IOP - Bhubaneswar VECC - Calcutta Panjab University University of Rajasthan Jammu University IIT - Bombay VECC – Kolcata Poland: Warsaw University of Technology

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