[en] The CMS experiment relies on a tracking detector entirely based on silicon sensors for the reconstruction of charged particles in the hostile radiation environment of proton-proton collisions at the CERN LHC. From the recent data collected by CMS at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, the tracking, vertexing and b-jet identification performance have been measured. These measurements include the muon tracking efficiency, track transverse momentum resolution, track impact parameter resolution, primary vertex efficiency and resolution, and b-jet identification efficiency. The tracking performance relies, in particular, on the excellent pixel detector tracking capabilities, which are exploited in many contexts such as seeding, b-jet identification, and beam-spot monitor. The pixel stand-alone tracking and vertexing capabilities are shown for a particular application: the beam-spot monitor.

[en] The high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) requires a major pixel detector R and D effort to develop both readout chip and sensor that are capable to withstand unprecedented extremely high radiation. The target integrated luminosity of 3000 fb"−"1, that the HL-LHC is expected to deliver over about 10 years of operation, translates into a hadron fluence of 2×10"1"6 1 MeV eq.n. / cm"2, or equivalently 10 MGy of radiation dose in silicon, at about 3 cm from the interaction region where the first layer of the pixel detector could be located. The CMS collaboration has undertaken two baseline sensor R and D programs on thin n-on-p planar and 3D silicon sensor technologies. Together with the ATLAS collaboration it has also been established a common R and D effort for the development of the readout chip in the 65 nm CMOS technology. Status, progresses, and prospects of the CMS R and D effort are presented and discussed in this article

[en] We describe a method we used to characterize micro-strip sensors, which were non-uniformly irradiated up to a fluence of ∼10¹⁴ 1MeV equivalent neutrons per cm². The method allows for a complete bidimensional mapping of the sensor characteristics over the entire active area. Information is gathered through the Q-V characteristic, measured scanning the sensor with an infra-red laser source. Q-V characteristics are then fitted to a simple analytical model, which returns local full-depletion voltages, carrier lifetimes, etc. With the present method one can even obtain the profile of the absorbed fluence. The development and tuning of the present method have been done in the context of the R and D programs for the micro-strip forward tracker of the BTeV experiment at the Tevatron

[en] We developed and characterized the first prototype of a silicon microstrip detector system to be used in the forward region (high rapidity) of high energy physics experiments. This detector features an innovative readout integrated circuit, the second version of the Fermilab Silicon Strip Readout chip (FSSR2), which, being completely data-driven, allows for the direct use of the detector information at the lowest level of the trigger. All the particle hits on the detector can be read out in real time without any external trigger and any particular limitation due to deadtime. The chip services 128 strips providing the address, the time-stamp and a 3 bit amplitude information for all hits. Several programmable features are included in the chip, such as an internal pulser, a baseline restorer, and a selectable signal peaking time and gain. The performance in terms of noise and threshold dispersion have been measured with and without sensor connected to the chip and at different values of peaking time and gain, confirming that the FSSR2 meets the design requirements. The electronic calibration has been crosschecked with a radioactive source of ²⁴¹Am

[en] The back-illuminated charge coupled devices (CCD) are suitable for soft X-ray photon detection. Their nominal performances suggest that they can boost both efficiency and resolving power of X-ray spectrometers based on diffraction gratings and two-dimensional position sensitive detectors. We tested the performances of two commercially available CCDs, intended to replace a more traditional microchannel plate (MCP) detector. Our tests show that the devices have excellent performances in terms of dark current, response linearity, detection efficiency and spatial resolution. We observed that the CCDs have better efficiency (more than 10 times) and better resolution (∼3 times) than the MCP. Moreover we found an intrinsic limit for the spatial resolution, which is almost independent of the detector pixel size and is estimated around 25 μm

[en] In this paper we present some results on the radiation tolerance of the CMS forward pixel detector. They were obtained from a beam test at Fermilab of a pixel-detector module, which was previously irradiated up to a maximum dose of 45 Mrad of protons at 200 MeV. It is shown that CMS forward pixel detector can tolerate this radiation dose without any major deterioration of its performance.