CST Publications

• Benno List:
  "The H1 silicon tracker."
  Proceedings of VERTEX2003, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A549 (2005) 33-36. ETH-IPP PR-2002-02.
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry
• Benno List:
  "The H1 central silicon tracker."
  Proceedings of VERTEX2001, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A501 (2001) 49-53. ETH-IPP PR-2002-02.
  • gzipped postscript (600kb)
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry
• Michael Hilgers, Roland Horisberger:
  "Development of a radiation hard version of the Analog Pipeline Chip APC128."
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A481 (2002) 556-565.
  • arXiv:hep-ex/0101023
  • gzipped postscript (82kb)
  • pdf (406kb)
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry
• D. Pitzl et al.:
  "The H1 silicon vertex detector."
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A454 (2000) 334-349.
  • arXiv:hep-ex/0002044
  • gzipped postscript (210kb)
  • pdf (520kb)
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry
• W.J. Haynes et al.:
  "A PowerPC based readout system for the silicon trackers of the H1-experiment."
  Given at 7th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors: Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, Italy, 25-31 May 1997.
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A409 (1998) 651-653.
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry
• W. J. Haynes et al.:
  "The H1 silicon tracker data acquisition system."
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A403 (1998) 313-325.
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry
• Jochen Bürger et al.:
  "Online Readout and Control Unit for High-speed / High Resolution Readout of Silicon Tracking Detectors."
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A386 (1997) 269-279.
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry
• W. Erdmann et al.:
  "Optical analog readout and control of the central silicon vertex detector of H1 at HERA."
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A372 (1996) 188-194.
  • gzipped postscript [256kB]
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry
  • HTML version
  Ressources:
  • TEX file [20kB]
  • APC128.eps.gz [14kB]
  • CST.bw.eps.gz [13kB]
  • Multifaser.eps.gz [24kB]
  • dechip.eps.gz [17kB]
  • hybrid.eps.gz [109kB]
  • input.eps.gz [2.5kB]
  • layout.eps.gz [14kB]
  • noise.eps.gz [4.5kB]
  • pigtail.eps.gz [11kB]
  • receiver.eps.gz [7.9kB]
  • sender.eps.gz [7.3kB]
• Jochen Bürger et al.:
  "The readout system of the H1 silicon detectors."
  Proceedings of the 7th International Wire Chamber Conference, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A367 (1995) 422-427.
  • Available from science direct
• D. Pitzl et al.:
  "Evaluation of double sided, AC-coupled, double metal silicon strip detectors for H1 at HERA."
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A348 (1994) 454-460.
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry
• R. Horisberger, D. Pitzl:
  "A novel readout chip for silicon strip detectors with analog pipeline and digitally controlled analog signal processing."
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A326 (1993) 92-99.
  • Available from science direct
  • SLAC Spires entry

CST Related Theses

• Jürgen Kroseberg: "A measurement of beauty production in high-energy positron-proton scattering." PhD thesis University of Zürich, Dec 2002.
  Postscript
  Contains lots of information on track and vertex reconstruction, in particular the primary vertex fit routine CSPRIM. The first thesis to measure beaty cross sections from muonic b decays, where the pt-rel and impact parameter information are combined.
• Thomas Kuhr: "Messung des Wirkungsquerschnittes von b-Quark-Produktion in tiefunelastischer Elektron-Proton-Streuung bei H1." PhD thesis University of Hamburg, Dec 2002.
  Postscript
  Contains lots of information on track and vertex reconstruction, in particular the primary vertex fit routine CSPRIM.
• Johannes Gassner: "A measurement of D-meson production at HERA by decay vertex identification." PhD thesis ETH Zürich, July 2002. Diss ETH No. 14774.
  Postscript
  Contains lots of information on track and vertex reconstruction, in particular the energy loss correction routine CSTCOR and the vertex fit routine VFIT2DC. The first thesis to measure charm cross sections and fragmentation ratios with the CST, with the first quantitative D⁺ and D_s signals at H1.
• Michael Hilgers: "Untersuchung von Beauty-Ereignissen bei HERA anhand ihres myonischen Zerfalls und strahlenharte Ausleseelektronik für den Silizium-Vertex-Detektor des H1-Experiments." PhD thesis ETH Zürich, Dec. 2001. Diss ETH No. 14497
  Postscript
  Contains a description of the new DMILL readout chips.
• Stefan Lüders: "A measurement of the beauty production cross section via B->J/psi X at HERA." PhD thesis ETH Zürich, Nov. 2001. Diss ETH No. 14480. ETHZ-IPP internal report 2001-10.
  Postscript
  The first thesis to use the CST for the determination of secondary vertices.
  SLAC Spires entry
• Thomas Kuhr: "Rekonstruktion von V⁰s mit dem H1-Silizium-Detektor." Diploma thesis Univ. Hamburg, Sep. 1998.
  Postscript
• Markus Kausch: "The Silicon Microvertex Detector of the H1 Experiment: Readout, Event Reconstruction, and Studies on Heavy Quark Decays." PhD thesis Univ. Hamburg. DESY-THESIS-1998-033. Oct. 1998.
  Postscript
• Monika Biddulph: "The Scale Dependence of the Charm Cross Section in Photoproduction and the Central Silicon Tracker at the H1 Experiment." PhD thesis ETH Zürich. Diss ETH Nr. 12331. July 1997.
  Postscript
  Contains a discussion of the decoder chip and of the treatment of pedestals and noise in the CST data.
• Johannes Gassner: "Messung der Ortsauflösung des H1-Siliziumvertexdetektors." Diploma thesis ETH Zürich. ETHZ-IPP internal report 96-4, Dec. 1996.
  gzipped Postscript [466 kB]
  Contains the a lot of information about the alignment, especially the (half-ladder) internal alignment.
• Sören A. Prell: "Entwicklung des Steuer- und Auslesemoduls für die Siliziumstreifendetektoren des H1-Detektors." PhD thesis, Univ. Hamburg, June 1996.
  zipped Postscript
  Contains the best available description of the OnSiRoC readout modules and a discussion of the treatment of pedestals and noise in the CST data.
• Guido Klaiber: "Eigenschaften des analogen Verstärker- und Speicherchips APC128 zur Auslese von Siliziumdetektoren." Diploma thesis, ETH Zürich. Internal report ETHZ-IPP 95-5, Sep. 1995.
• Hubert Niggli: "Ladungssammlung in doppelseitigen Silizium-Streifendetektoren für H1." Diploma thesis, ETH Zürich. Internal report ETHZ-IPP 94-5, Oct. 1994.
• Moritz Lechner: "Untersuchung des Rauschverhaltens von CMOS-Vorverstärkern für Silizium-Streifendetektoren." Diploma thesis, ETH Zürich. Internal report ETHZ-IPP 94-3 1994, April 1994.
  Contains measurements of the noise in the old (SACMOS) APC chips.

Talks and Presentations

• Benno List: "The H1 Silicon Tracker." Talk given at the 12th international workshop on vertex detectors VERTEX 2003, Low Wood, Cumbria, UK, 14-19 September, 2003.
  PDF [1.9MB]
• Wolfgang Lange: "H1 Silicon Detectors." Talk given at the 11th international workshop on vertex detectors VERTEX 2002, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 3-8 November, 2002.
  Power Point [4.1MB], PDF [1.1MB]
• Benno List: "The H1 Central Silicon Tracker: Performance and Upgrade." Talk given at the 10th international workshop on vertex detectors VERTEX 2001, Brunnen, Switzerland, 23-28 September 2001.
  PDF [1.8MB], gzipped ps [14MB]
• Markus Kausch: "Spurrekonstruktion mit dem Vertexdetektor des H1-Experiments." Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft 1998, München.
  gzipped Postscript [92kB]
  html
• Johannes Gassner: "CST Performance 1997." PSI group meeting, Dec. 21, 1998.
  gzipped Postscript [305kB]

The Original Proposal

• H1 collaboration, "Technical proposal to build silicon tracking detectors for H1." DESY PRC 92/01 (1992).
  Internal H1 note H1-06/92-225 [pdf 2MB]