Kazuyoshi Akiba, Per Arne Ronning, Martin van Beuzekom, Vincent van Beveren, Silvia Borghi, Henk Boterenbrood, Jan Buytaert, Paula Collins, Alvaro Dosil Suarez, Raphael Dumps, Lars Eklund, Daniel Esperante, Abraham Gallas, Hamish Gordon, Bas van der Heijden, Christoph Hombach, Daniel Hynds, Malcolm John, Alexander Leflat, Yi Ming Li, Ian Longstaff, Alexander Morton, Noritsugu Nakatsuka, Andre Nomerotski, Chris Parkes, Eliseo Perez Trigo, Richard Plackett, Matthew M. Reid, Pablo Rodriguez Perez, Heinrich Schindler, Tomasz Szumlak, Panagiotis Tsopelas, Carlos Vazquez Sierra, Jaap Velthuis, Michal Wysokinski
The Timepix particle tracking telescope has been developed as part of the LHCb VELO Upgrade project, supported by the Medipix Collaboration and the AIDA framework. It is a primary piece of infrastructure for the VELO Upgrade project and is being used for the development of new sensors and front end technologies for several upcoming LHC trackers and vertexing systems. The telescope is designed around the dual capability of the Timepix ASICs to provide information about either the deposited charge or the timing information from tracks traversing the 14 x 14mm matrix of 55 x 55 um pixels. The rate of reconstructed tracks available is optimised by taking advantage of the shutter driven readout architecture of the Timepix chip, operated with existing readout systems. Results of tests conducted in the SPS North Area beam facility at CERN show that the telescope typically provides reconstructed track rates during the beam spills of between 3.5 and 7.5 kHz, depending on beam conditions. The tracks are time stamped with 1 ns resolution with an efficiency of above 98% and provide a pointing resolution at the centre of the telescope of 1.6 um . By dropping the time stamping requirement the rate can be increased to 15 kHz, at the expense of a small increase in background. The telescope infrastructure provides CO2 cooling and a flexible mechanical interface to the device under test, and has been used for a wide range of measurements during the 2011-2012 data taking campaigns.
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