31 May 2011
Wilson Hall
US/Central timezone

Ten Years of the CDF Silicon Vertex Detector: Performance and Status

31 May 2011, 08:00
20m
One West (Wilson Hall)

One West

Wilson Hall

Fermilab
Energy Frontier Session 1

Speaker

Miguel Mondragon

Description

The CDF Silicon Vertex Detector plays a critical role in most analyses at CDF, including searches for the Higgs boson, new physics signatures, measurements of Bs-mixing, top quark and W boson masses. Originally designed to withstand up to 3 1/fb, its life has spanned over 11 1/fb of integrated delivered luminosity with surprisingly good performance. In this talk we will present details of detector's components, radiation environment, effects of continuous exposure and general performance.

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