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The LHCb VELO Upgrade module construction Open

K. Carvalho Akiba, M. Alexander, C. Bertella, A. Biolchini, A. Bitadze , et al. · 2024

The LHCb detector has undergone a major upgrade for LHC Run 3. This Upgrade I detector facilitates operation at higher luminosity and utilises full-detector information at the LHC collision rate, critically including the use of vertex info…

The LHCb VELO Upgrade Module Construction Open

K. Carvalho Akiba, M. Alexander, C. Bertella, A. Biolchini, A. Bitadze , et al. · 2024

The LHCb detector has undergone a major upgrade for LHC Run 3. This Upgrade I detector facilitates operation at higher luminosity and utilises full-detector information at the LHC collision rate, critically including the use of vertex info…

MightyPix at the LHCb Mighty Tracker — verificationof an HV-CMOS pixel chip's digital readout Open

S. Scherl, Nicolas Striebig, K. Hennessy, I‎. ‎Perić, E. Vilella Figueras · 2024

MightyPix is a high voltage complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (HV-CMOS) active pixel sensor, currently being developed for the Mighty Tracker, an upgrade proposed for LHCb in anticipation of the High Luminosity LHC. To ensure that Mi…

The LHCb Mighty Tracker Open

K. Hennessy · 2024

The LHCb detector is set to undergo a significant upgrade during the\nupcoming long shutdown 4 of the LHC. This upgrade will result in a\nnearly tenfold increase in instantaneous luminosity, reaching $1.5\n\\times 10^{34}\\mathrm{cm^2s^{-1…

Measurement of thermal properties of the LHCb VELO detector using track-based software alignment Open

K. Carvalho Akiba, M. Alexander, W. Barter, G. A. Bogdanova, S. Borghi , et al. · 2023

The thermal properties of the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) are studied using the real-time detector alignment procedure. The variation of the position and orientation of the detector elements as a function of the operating temperature of the…

A FPGA-Based Architecture for Real-Time Cluster Finding in the LHCb Silicon Pixel Detector Open

G. Bassi, L. Giambastiani, K. Hennessy, F. Lazzari, M. J. Morello , et al. · 2023

—This article describes a custom VHDL firmware implementation of a two-dimensional cluster-finder architecture for reconstructing hit positions in the new vertex pixel detector (VELO) that is part of the LHCb Upgrade. This firmware has bee…

A FPGA-based architecture for real-time cluster finding in the LHCb silicon pixel detector Open

G. Bassi, L. Giambastiani, K. Hennessy, F. Lazzari, M. J. Morello , et al. · 2023

This article describes a custom VHDL firmware implementation of a two-dimensional cluster-finder architecture for reconstructing hit positions in the new vertex pixel detector (VELO) that is part of the LHCb Upgrade. This firmware has been…

The HEV Ventilator: at the interface between particle physics and biomedical engineering Open

J. Buytaert, P. Collins, A. Abed Abud, P. P. Allport, A. Pazos Álvarez , et al. · 2022

A high-quality, low-cost ventilator, dubbed HEV, has been developed by the particle physics community working together with biomedical engineers and physicians around the world. The HEV design is suitable for use both in and out of hospita…

Mapping the material in the LHCb vertex locator using secondary hadronic interactions Open

M. Alexander, W. Barter, A. Bay, L. J. Bel, M. van Beuzekom , et al. · 2021

© 2018 CERN. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Precise knowledge of the location of the material in the LHCb vertex locator (VELO) is essential to reducing background in searches for long-lived exotic particles, and in identifying jets that…

Readout Firmware of the Vertex Locator for LHCb Run 3 and Beyond Open

K. Hennessy, Antonio Fernández Prieto, P. Vázquez Regueiro, J. Buytaert, M. van Beuzekom , et al. · 2021

The new LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) for LHCb, comprising a new pixel detector and readout electronics, will be installed in 2021 for data taking in Run 3 at the LHC. The electronics centers around the “VeloPix” ASIC at the front-end operati…

The HEV Ventilator. Open

J. Buytaert, A. Abed Abud, P. Allport, A. Pazos Álvarez, K. Carvalho Akiba , et al. · 2020

HEV is a low-cost, versatile, high-quality ventilator, which has been designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ventilator is intended to be used both in and out of hospital intensive care units, and for both invasive and non-inva…

The HEV Ventilator Open

J. Buytaert, A. Abed Abud, P. Allport, A. Pazos Álvarez, K. Akiba , et al. · 2020

HEV is a low-cost, versatile, high-quality ventilator, which has been designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ventilator is intended to be used both in and out of hospital intensive care units, and for both invasive and non-inva…

The upgrade I of LHCb VELO—towards an intelligent monitoring platform Open

P. Kopciewicz, T. Szumlak, M. W. Majewski, K. Carvalho Akiba, Oscar Augusto , et al. · 2020

The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) detector is designed to detect decays of b- and c- hadrons for the study of CP violation and rare decays. At the end of the LHC Run 2, many of the LHCb measurements remained statistically dominated. …

Commissioning High-speed readout for the LHCb VELO Upgrade Open

K. Hennessy · 2020

The new Vertex Locator for LHCb, comprising a new pixel detector and readout electronics, will be installed in 2020 for data-taking in Run 3 at the LHC. The electronics centres around the "VeloPix" ASIC at the front-end operating in a trig…

Phase I Upgrade of the Readout System of the Vertex Detector at the LHCb Experiment Open

Antonio Fernández Prieto, P. Vázquez Regueiro, K. Hennessy, J. Buytaert, M. van Beuzekom , et al. · 2020

This article describes the high-speed system designed to meet the challenging requirements for the readout of the new pixel VErtex LOcator (VELO) of the upgraded LHCb experiment. All elements of the electronics readout chain will be renewe…

Velo Upgrade Module Nomenclature Open

V. Coco, T. Ketel, M. Kraan, Paula Collins, Matthew Brock , et al. · 2019

The nomenclature and geometry of the various constituents of velo upgrade hybrid sensors are defined, as well as their position within the modules. The modules nomenclature and their position along the z-axis are defined.

The DAQ systems of the DUNE Prototypes at CERN/ Open

K. Hennessy · 2019

DUNE is a long baseline neutrino experiment due to take data in 2025. Two prototypes of the DUNE far detector were built to assess candidate technologies and methods in advance of the DUNE detector build. Here are described the data acquis…

Radiation Damage Effects and Operation of the LHCb Vertex Locator Open

K. Carvalho Akiba, M. Alexander, W. Barter, Lon E. Bell, G. A. Bogdanova , et al. · 2018

Vertex Locator (VELO) is a silicon micro-strip detector situated around the interaction point in the LHCb spectrometer at the LHC. The LHCb experiment is dedicated to studying CP violation in the heavy flavor sector and rare decays of B me…

LHCb VELO upgrade Open

K. Hennessy · 2016

The LHCb velo upgrade Open

K. Hennessy · 2016

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