19–21 Jan 2015
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone
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The LHCb Timepix3 telescope

20 Jan 2015, 13:45
30m
Seminar Room 4a/b (Bld. 1b, OG) (DESY Hamburg)

Seminar Room 4a/b (Bld. 1b, OG)

DESY Hamburg

Speaker

Martin Beuzekom, van (NIKHEF)

Description

During the summer of 2014, the LHCb Timepix3 telescope has been assembled, and successfully commissioned at the CERN PS beam. It was used extensively at SPS to characterise prototype sensors for the upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Locator, and also provided tracks to other LHCb upgrade projects. The telescope consists of 8 planes with 300 um thick n-on-p sensors bump-bonded to Timepix3 ASICs. Readout of the Timepix3 is achieved with the SPIDR readout system based on Xilinx Virtex7 FPGA's. It features a zero-suppressed data-driven readout, and can cope with a track rate of 10 million tracks per second. This presentation will discuss the construction of the telescope, describe the readout and its software environment, and show some performance results of the telescope.

Estimated length in minutes

30

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