Spatial Resolution of Double-Sided Silicon Microstrip Detectors for the PAMELA Apparatus

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2005-10-04

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0510012v1

Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A556 (2006) 100-114

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

28 pages, 18 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nima.2005.10.014

The PAMELA apparatus has been assembled and it is ready to be launched in a satellite mission to study mainly the antiparticle component of cosmic rays. In this paper the performances obtained for the silicon microstrip detectors used in the magnetic spectrometer are presented. This subdetector reconstructs the curvature of a charged particle in the magnetic field produced by a permanent magnet and consequently determines momentum and charge sign, thanks to a very good accuracy in the position measurements (better than 3 um in the bending coordinate). A complete simulation of the silicon microstrip detectors has been developed in order to investigate in great detail the sensor's characteristics. Simulated events have been then compared with data gathered from minimum ionizing particle (MIP) beams during the last years in order to tune free parameters of the simulation. Finally some either widely used or original position finding algorithms, designed for such kind of detectors, have been applied to events with different incidence angles. As a result of the analysis, a method of impact point reconstruction can be chosen, depending on both the particle's incidence angle and the cluster multiplicity, so as to maximize the capability of the spectrometer in antiparticle tagging.

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