Data Handling Processor And Signal Transmission In The Belle Ii Depfet Pixel Detector

Data Handling Processor and Signal Transmission in the Belle II DEPFET Pixel Detector

Particle Detectors

Introduction -- Overview, history and concepts -- Interactions of particles with matter -- Movement of charge carriers in electric and magnetic fields -- Signal formation by moving charges -- Non-electronic detectors -- Gas-filled detectors -- Semiconductor detectors -- Track reconstruction and momentum measurement -- Photodetectors -- Cherenkov detectors -- Transition radiation detectors -- Scintillation detectors -- Particle identification -- Calorimeters -- Detectors for cosmic particles, neutrinos and exotic matter -- Signal processing, readout and noise -- Trigger and data acquisition systems -- Appendix A Dosimetry and radioactive sources -- Appendix B Weighting potential of segmented electrodes -- Appendix C Diffusion effects in drift chambers -- Appendix D Ionisation statistics in drift chambers -- Appendix E Position resolution of structured electrodes -- Appendix F Fitting of track models -- Appendix G LPM effect -- Appendix H Laplace transform -- Appendix I Physical noise sources -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Index.

Commissioning and First Data Taking Experience with the Belle II Pixel Vertex Detector

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB particle accelerator at KEK in Tsukuba (Japan) is the successor to the Belle experiment, which played a crucial role in the discovery of CP violation in the B-Meson system. The vertex detector of Belle II was upgraded with two layers of a DEPFET based pixel detector (PXD) to improve the vertex resolution compared to Belle. This thesis gives an overview of the PXD and its individual components. The focus of the work lies on the transition from a pure laboratory system to a fully integrated one in Belle II. Before the final detector components were ins...