Production and integration of the ATLAS Insertable B-Layer

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Abstract

During the shutdown of the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2013-2014, an additional pixel layer was installed between the existing Pixel detector of the ATLAS experiment and a new, smaller radius beam pipe. The motivation for this new pixel layer, the Insertable B-Layer (IBL), was to maintain or improve the robustness and performance of the ATLAS tracking system, given the higher instantaneous and integrated luminosities realised following the shutdown. Because of the extreme radiation and collision rate environment, several new radiation-tolerant sensor and electronic technologies were utilised for this layer. This paper reports on the IBL construction and integration prior to its operation in the ATLAS detector.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberT05008
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume13
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 16 2018

Keywords

  • Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics
  • Particle tracking detectors (Solid-state detectors)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Instrumentation
  • Mathematical Physics

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