Ensuring superior performance: Characterizations of novel silicon detectors for High-Luminosity LHC and beyond / vorgelegt von Daniil D. Rastorguev. Hamurg, 2025
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Zusammenfassung
- Introduction to silicon detectors for particle physics
- Scattering experiments in high-energy physics
- Particle detectors in scattering experiments
- Interactions of particles with matter
- Design principles of ionization detectors
- Semiconductor ionization detectors
- Charge carriers in semiconductors
- Design principles of silicon sensors
- Resolution of tracking detectors
- Radiation damage
- Development, production and deployment of silicon detectors
- Scope of this work
- I Characterizing silicon devices with pulsed lasers
- Injection lasers for sensor R&D
- Transient Current Technique
- Overview of charge injection techniques
- Charge injection with pulsed lasers
- Spatial configurations of charge injection
- Extractable observables
- The Laserbox setup
- Monte Carlo simulations of laser injection
- Monte Carlo simulations for detector development
- General concepts of modeling the detector response
- The Allpix Squared framework
- DepositionLaser module
- Comparison of simulation and experiment
- Timing performance of a digital silicon photomultiplier prototype
- Timing with silicon sensors
- Silicon sensors with gain
- The DESY Digital SiPM Prototype
- Characterizations of the timing performance with a pulsed laser
- Summary of Part I
- II Building and testing PS modules for the CMS Phase-2 Outer Tracker
- CMS experiment at the LHC
- Construction of PS modules
- Challenges of PS module production
- Assembly sequence of the Phase-2 OT modules
- Bare module automated assembly
- Test beam qualification of PS modules
- Test beams for detector R&D
- DESY II test beam facility
- Data reconstruction with Corryvreckan framework
- General concepts and procedures
- Setup alignment
- Telescope resolution
- Observables definitions
- Trigger offset
- Results
- Summary of Part II
- Conclusion
- AllpixSquared configuration for TCT simulation
- Bibliography
- List of acronyms
- Acknowledgments