Test beam performance of a CBC3-based mini-module for the Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker before and after neutron irradiation

Authors

CMS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration

Date of this Version

4-4-2023

Citation

2023 JINST 18 P04001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/04/P04001.

Comments

Used by permission.

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will undergo major upgrades to increase the instantaneous luminosity up to 5–7.5 × 10³⁴ cm^-2s^-1. This High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) will deliver a total of 3000–4000 fb^-1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13–14 TeV. To cope with these challenging environmental conditions, the strip tracker of the CMS experiment will be upgraded using modules with two closely-spaced silicon sensors to provide information to include tracking in the Level-1 trigger selection. This paper describes the performance, in a test beam experiment, of the first prototype module based on the final version of the CMS Binary Chip front-end ASIC before and after the module was irradiated with neutrons. Results demonstrate that the prototype module satisfies the requirements, providing efficient tracking information, after being irradiated with a total fluence comparable to the one expected through the lifetime of the experiment.