Performance of the LHCb Vertex Locator

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Aaij, R ^a   Affolder, A ^b   Akiba, K ^c   Alexander, M ^d   Ali, S ^a   Appleby, R B ^e   Artuso, M ^f   Bates, A ^d   Bay, A ^g   Behrendt, O ^h   Benton, J ⁱ   Beuzekom, M Van ^a   Bjornstad P M ^e   Bogdanova, G ^j   Borghi, S ^e   Borgia, A ^f   Bowcock, T J V ^b   Van Den Brand, J ^a   Brown, H ^b   Buytaert, J ^h   Callot, O ^k   Carroll, J ^b   Casse, G ^b   Collins, P ^h   De Capua, S ^e   Doets, M ^a   Donleavy, S ^b   Dossett, D ^l   Dumps, R ^h   Eckstein, D ^m   Eklund, L ^d   Farinelli, C ^a   Farry, S ^b   Ferro Luzzi, M ^h   Frei, R ^g   Garofoli, J ^f   Gersabeck, M ^e   Gershon, T ^l   Gong, A ⁿ   Gong, H ⁿ   Gordon, H ^h   Haefeli, G ^g   Harrison, J ^e   Heijne, V ^a   Hennessy, K ^b   Hulsbergen, W ^a   Huse, T ^o   Hutchcroft, D ^b   Jaeger, A ^p   Jalocha, P ^q   Jans, E ^a   John, M ^q   Keaveney, J ^r   Ketel, T ^a   Korolev, M ^j   Kraan, M ^a   Lastovicka T ^s   Lafferty, G ^e   Latham, T ^l   Lefeuvre, G ^f   Leflat, A ^j   Liles, M ^b   Van Lysebetten, A ^a   Macgregor, G ^e   Marinho, F ^c   McNulty, R ^t   Merkin, M ^j   Moran, D ^u   Mountain, R ^f   Mous, I ^a   Mylroie Smith, J ^b   Needham, M ^v   Nikitin, N ^j   Noor, A ^b   Oblakowska Mucha, A ^w   Papadelis, A ^a   Pappagallo, M ^d   Parkes, C ^e   Patel, G D ^b   Rakotomiaramanana, B ^g   Redford, S ^h   Reid, M ^l   Rinnert, K ^b   Rodrigues, E ^e   Saavedra, A F ^x   Schiller, M ^a   Schneider, O ^g   Shears, T ^b   Coutinho, R Silva ^l   Smith, N A ^b   Szumlak, T ^w   Thomas, C ^q   Tilburg, J Van ^a   Tobin, M ^g   Velthuis, J ⁱ   Verlaat, B ^a   Viret, S ^y   Volkov, V ^j   Wallace, C ^l   Wang, J ^f   Webber, A ^e   Whitehead, M ^l   Zverev, E ^j   more..

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g EPFL   (Switzerland)

^h CERN   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^j MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^k UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^m DESY   (Germany)

ⁿ TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^o UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^p UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^r VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^s INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^t UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^u UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^v UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^w AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^x UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^y UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Particle tracking detectors (Solid state detectors); Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors; Radiation hard detectors; Solid state detectors

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; RADIATION DAMAGE; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

DATA PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTOR; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; RADIATION HARD DETECTORS; SILICON MICRO-STRIP DETECTORS; SOLID STATE DETECTORS; SPACE CHARGE SIGN INVERSIONS; STANDARD OPERATING CONDITIONS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84907482479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/09/P09007     Document Type: Article

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