The STAR Silicon Strip Detector (SSD)
L. Arnold, J. Baudot, D. Bonnet, A. Boucham, S. Bouvier, J. Castillo, J. P. Coffin, C. Drancourt, B. Erazmus, L. Gaudichet, M. Germain, C. Gojak, J. Grabski, G. Guilloux, M. Guedon, B. Hippolyte, M. Janik, A. Kisiel, C. Kuhn, L. Lakehal-Ayat, F. Lefevre, C. LeMoal, P. Leszczynski, J. R. Lutz, A. Maliszewski, L. Martin, T. Milletto, T. Pawlak, W. Peryt, J. Pluta, M. Przewlocki, S. Radomski, O. Ravel, C. Renard, G. Renault, L. M. Rigalleau, C. Roy, D. Roy, C. Suire, P. Szarwas, A. Tarchini
Abstract
The STAR Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) completes the three layers of the Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) to make an inner tracking system located inside the Time Projection Chamber (TPC). This additional fourth layer provides two dimensional hit position and energy loss measurements for charged particles, improving the extrapolation of TPC tracks through SVT hits. To match the high multiplicity of central Au+Au collisions at RHIC the double sided silicon strip technology was chosen which makes the SSD a half million channels detector. Dedicated electronics have been designed for both readout and control. Also a novel technique of bonding, the Tape Automated Bonding (TAB), was used to fullfill the large number of bounds to be done. All aspects of the SSD are shortly described here and test performances of produced detection modules as well as simulated results on hit reconstruction are given.
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