Inner tracking for inner beauty - Abraham Tishelman-Charny (BNL)

Tuesday 2 Apr 2024, 12:30 → 13:30 America/Los_Angeles

48/2-224 - Madrone (SLAC)

In 2029, the accelerator complex of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will complete a substantial upgrade with the purpose of increasing the size of its delivered datasets to its stationed detectors by a factor of 20. This phase of the LHC is called the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). For the ATLAS experiment, the major gain of the HL-LHC will be an improvement in sensitivity across the board of physics analyses. However, this gain will not come for free. The HL-LHC will produce a challenging data-taking environment including unprecedented amounts of simultaneous interactions called “pileup”, a bombardment of radiation which will degrade the detector and electronics over time, and increased data rates. In order to handle these harsh conditions, the ATLAS detector will undergo major upgrades, including an upgrade of its tracking sub-detector to an all-silicon inner detector called the ITk (Inner Tracker). The ITk will be composed of pixel and strip silicon detectors, with its strip components further from the interaction region where lower occupancy is expected. This seminar will describe the design of the ITk strips detector, and delve into its Quality Control (QC) procedure, crucial to ensure a robust detector capable of withstanding the data-taking conditions of HL-LHC. A select set of projected HL-LHC physics analysis results will also be described, including the expected impact of excellent identification of b-quark decays (b-tagging), to present an idea of what we will be able to accomplish with the ITk.
 

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2_April_2024_SLAC_Seminar.pdf

video1071659216.mp4