STAR Silicon Vertex Tracker Detector (SVT) Update

Vertex 2002 - Nov

STAR Silicon Vertex Tracker Detector (SVT)

Update

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument - Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829)

Helen Caines -Yale University

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Vertex 2002 – Nov 2002

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Presentation Overview

● SVT Introduction● SVT Performance● Track-to-Hit Matching ● Vertex Reconstruction● Energy Loss● Strange Particle Decays● Summary & Conclusions

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Welcome to BNL- RHIC!

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The STAR Detector

• 1st year, 2nd year, year-by-year until 2003, installation in 2003

ZCal

Silicon Vertex Tracker *

Central Trigger Barrel+ TOF patch

FTPCs (1 + 1)

Time Projection Chamber

Barrel EM Calorimeter

Vertex Position Detectors

Magnet

Coils

TPC Endcap & MWPC

RICH * yr.1 SVT ladder

Endcap Calorimeter

ZCal

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SVT Installation

Installed for the first time2001-2 RHIC run

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p-p vs Au-Au at √sNN=200 GeV

Two very different environments:

p-p - Few tracks, primary vertex not well known

high luminosity

Au-Au – Few 1000 tracks

Vertex well located

Track/hit merging

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Each wafer is 6.3 cm x 6.3 cm area

300 m thick - 0.3%X0

Average radiation length seen by a particle 4.5%X0 incl. fee cards etc.

Consists of 216 wafers

3 Barrels

Outer radius – 15cm

Middle Radius – 10cm

Inner radius - 6cm

Length - 21cm

SVT Design

Inner barrel has 8 ladders – 4 wafers/ladderMiddle barrel has 12 ladders – 6 wafers/ladderOuter barrel has 16 ladders – 7 wafers/ladder

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Silicon Drift Detector - Principle

Ionizing particle

R - position from drift time

Electron cloud

X

SDD

Z - position from readout anode number

Drift time ~ 5 sec240 Anodes/wafer100 samples/anode

Gain : 1 e- = 7.2V 4 mV = 1 ADC

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Calibrations - Pedestals

You can see the edges of the 15 PASA’s and more obviously the

3 analogue buffers where the multiplexing occurs

Anode

First Time bucket

Other 127 Time buckets

Pedestal Subtraction done online

96.5% of 103,680 channels operational91.2% of 103,680 channels used in analysis

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SVT Performance

Noise: 7 mV for pp 12 mV for Au+Au (due to a

grounding problem now fixed)

4 mV design (<7 mV aim)

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•30 m resolution reproducibility

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Drift Velocity Calibration

SDD’s modeled using 2 drift velocities. One in the drift region and one in the focusing region

There is a temperature dependence across the wafer which must be accounted for.

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SVT Temperature Control

Au-Au

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Hit to Track Matching

Au-AuMixed eventsClosest hit

Are we matching correctly?

Au-AuClosest hitReal events

Yes!

TPC inner radius = 50cmSVT outer radius = 15cm

Project tracks from TPC to SVT

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Drift Residuals vs Wafer

Before Alignment

After Alignment

Magnitudes agree with survey results

Shifted center of SVTRelative to TPC by x=-0.276cm y=-0.82cm

1 2 3

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Using SVT for TPC Calibration

Track dip angle < 0.1

Shift in Z + TPC T0/Vdrift wrong

mean (Z) = 0.0526cm vdrift = 5.56 cm/secTPC T0 shift = 0.0526/5.56 = 9.46 x 10-3 sec

After Corrections

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Vertex Finding - Resolution

p-p

Z offset of 0.005cm – Aligned in Z

STAR Preliminary

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Anode Residuals vs pt

Au-Au

Pt resolution worse at low pt where energy loss and scattering not yet taken into account

STAR Preliminary

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Primary Matching “efficiency”

Efficiency is defined as thenumber of tracks with SVT hits added (2 or more)p-p

p-p

Flat in pt

If you go to ±30cm average effic is 45%

Expect ~85% from simulation of perfect detector

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Impact Parameter Improvement

pp:

Mean 0.7->0.51 cmRMS 0.59->0.48 cm

TPCTPC+SVT

cm

3D impact parameters of track associated to primary vertex should be close to zero

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Energy Loss in the SVT Layers

● 3 sample maximum

● Higher energy resolution

● Good for low momentum

● Independent measure of dE/dx

● Allows 2D cut

Preliminary

Preliminary

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Strange Particle Decays

● Black is TPC only● Red is TPC+SVT

● Blue is TPC only● Red is TPC+SVT

Preliminary

Preliminary

~35-40% greater yield in K0s region

Mostly low pT

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V0 Reconstruction

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Summary & Conclusions

✔ Sharpens the primary vertex reconstruction

✔ Improved PID

✔ More precise low pT tracking

✔ Enhanced analyses (already ~40% more K0)

➔ To Do:

●Improve noise reduction

●Understand track to hit matching

●Take more data!

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The STAR CollaborationRussia:MEPHI - MoscowLPP/LHE JINR - DubnaIHEP - Protvino

U.S. Labs:ArgonneBerkeleyBrookhaven

U.S. Universities: Arkansas UniversityUC BerkeleyUC DavisUC Los AngelesCarnegie Mellon UniversityCreighton UniversityIndiana UniversityKent State UniversityMichigan State UniversityCity College of New YorkOhio State UniversityPenn. State UniversityPurdue UniversityRice UniversityTexas A&MUT AustinWashington UniversityWayne State UniversityYale University

Brazil: Universidade de Sao Paolo

China: IHEP – Beijing,IMP - LanzouIPP – WuhanUSTCSINR – ShanghaiTsinghua UniversityEngland: University of Birmingham

France:IReS StrasbourgSUBATECH - Nantes

Germany: MPI – MunichUniversity of Frankfurt

India:IOP - BhubaneswarVECC - CalcuttaPanjab UniversityUniversity of RajasthanJammu UniversityIIT - BombayVECC – Kolcata

Poland:Warsaw University of Technology

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