Performance of the LHCb outer tracker

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Arink, R ^a   Bachmann, S ^b   Bagaturia, Y ^b   Band, H ^a   Bauer, Th ^a   Berkien, A ^a   Farber Ch ^b   Bien, A ^b   Blouw, J ^b   Ceelie, L ^a   Coco, V ^a   Deckenhoff, M ^c   Deng, Z ^g   Dettori, F ^a   Van Eijk, D ^a   Ekelhof, R ^c   Gersabeck, E ^b   Grillo, L ^b   Hulsbergen, W D ^a   Karbach, T M ^c,d   Koopman, R ^a   Kozlinskiy, A ^a   Langenbruch, Ch ^b   Lavrentyev, V ^a   Linn, Ch ^b   Merk, M ^a   Merkel, J ^c   Meissner, M ^b   Michalowski, J ^e   Morawski, P ^e   Nawrot, A ^f   Nedos, M ^c   Pellegrino, A ^a   Polok, G ^e   Van Petten, O ^a   Rovekamp J ^a   Schimmel, F ^a   Schuylenburg, H ^a   Schwemmer, R ^b,d   Seyfert, P ^b   Serra, N ^a   Sluijk, T ^a   Spaan, B ^c   Spelt, J ^a   Storaci, B ^a   Szczekowski, M ^f   Swientek, S ^c   Tolk, S ^a   Tuning, N ^a   Uwer, U ^b   Wiedner, D ^b   Witek, M ^e   Zeng, M ^g   Zwart, A ^a   more..

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^f SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^g TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Particle tracking detectors; Particle tracking detectors (Gaseous detectors)

Indexed keywords

AGEING EFFECTS; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; DOUBLE LAYERS; GASEOUS DETECTORS; ITS SERVICES; PARTICLE TRACKING; POSITION RESOLUTION; READOUT ELECTRONICS;

INSTRUMENTS;

GAS DETECTORS;

EID: 84893058473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/01/P01002     Document Type: Article

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