The ABC130 barrel module prototyping programme for the ATLAS strip tracker

• Published in: Journal of instrumentation Vol. 15; no. 9; p. P09004
• Main Authors: Poley, L., Sawyer, C., Addepalli, S., Affolder, A.A., Allongue, B., Allport, P., Anderssen, E., Anghinolfi, F., Arguin, J.-F., Arling, J.-H., Arnaez, O., Asbah, N.A., Ashby, J., Asimakopoulou, E.M., Atlay, N.B., Bartsch, L., Basso, M.J., Beacham, J., Beaupré, S.L., Beck, G., Beichert, C., Bergsten, L., Bernabeu, J., Bhattarai, P., Bloch, I., Blue, A.J., Bochenek, M., Botte, J., Boynton, L., Brenner, R., Brueers, B., Buchanan, E., Bullard, B., Capocasa, F., Carr, I., Carra, S., Chao, C.W., Chen, J., Chen, L., Chen, Y., Chen, X., Cindro, V., Ciocio, A., Civera, J. V., Cormier, K., Cornell, E., Crick, B., Dabrowski, W., Dam, M., David, C., Demontigny, G., Dette, K., DeWitt, J., Diez, S., Doherty, F., Dopke, J., Dressnandt, N., Edwards, S., Fadeyev, V., Farrington, S., Fawcett, W., Fernandez-Tejero, J., Filmer, E., Fleta, C., Gallop, B., Galloway, Z., Argos, C. Garcia, Garg, D., Gignac, M., Gillberg, D., Giovinazzo, D., Glover, J., Goettlicher, P., Gonella, L., Gorišek, A., Grant, C., Grant, F., Gray, C., Greenall, A., Gregor, I., Greig, G., Grillo, A. A., Gu, S., Guescini, F., Costa, J. Barreiro Guimaraes da, Gunnell, J., Gupta, R., Haber, C., Halgheri, A., Hamersly, D., Haugen, T.E., Hauser, M., Heim, S., Heim, T., Helling, C., Herde, H., Hessey, N. P., Hommels, B., Hönig, J.C., Hunter, A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.09.2020; Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Subjects: Assembly; ATLAS detectors; Chip formation; Detector design and construction technologies and materials; Fabrication process; Front-end electronics for detector readout; Fysik; Inner Detector; Modules; Natural Sciences; Naturvetenskap; Physical Sciences; Pixels; Production sites; Prototyping; Quality control; Radiation-hard detectors; Readout chips; Readout systems; Second generation; Si microstrip and pad detectors; Silicon; Silicon detectors; Silicon sensors; Silicon tracker; Software testing; Strip; Subatomic Physics; Subatomär fysik; Tooling; Transition radiation
• ISSN: 1748-0221; 1748-0221
• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/09/P09004

For the Phase-II Upgrade of the ATLAS Detector [1], its Inner Detector, consisting of silicon pixel, silicon strip and transition radiation sub-detectors, will be replaced with an all new 100% silicon tracker, composed of a pixel tracker at inner radii and a strip tracker at outer radii. The future ATLAS strip tracker will include 11,000 silicon sensor modules in the central region (barrel) and 7,000 modules in the forward region (end-caps), which are foreseen to be constructed over a period of 3.5 years. The construction of each module consists of a series of assembly and quality control steps, which were engineered to be identical for all production sites. In order to develop the tooling and procedures for assembly and testing of these modules, two series of major prototyping programs were conducted: an early program using readout chips designed using a 250 nm fabrication process (ABCN-250) [2,2] and a subsequent program using a follow-up chip set made using 130 nm processing (ABC130 and HCC130 chips). This second generation of readout chips was used for an extensive prototyping program that produced around 100 barrel-type modules and contributed significantly to the development of the final module layout. This paper gives an overview of the components used in ABC130 barrel modules, their assembly procedure and findings resulting from their tests.