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Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-DE-096 · Item
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One of the building blocks of the CMS Silicon Tracker: a part of the detector that reconstructs the trajectories of charge particles emerging from the proton-proton collisions. A lightweight structure, made mostly of carbon fibre, supports silicon detectors and their readout electronics. These detectors generate an electrical pulse when they are traversed by a charged particle, and they are segmented into fine strips (in this case the strips are 180 microns wide, about the size of a human hair) that collect those pulses, such that the position of the strip provides a coordinate on the particle trajectory.

Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-DE-095 · Item
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One of the building blocks of the CMS Silicon Tracker: a part of the detector that reconstructs the trajectories of charged particles emerging from the proton-proton collisions. A lightweight structure, made mostly of carbon fibre, supports silicon detectors and their readout electronics. These detectors generate an electrical pulse when they are traversed by a charged particle, and they are segmented into fine strips (in this case the strips are 180 microns wide, about the size of a human hair) that collect those pulses, such that the position of the strip provides a coordinate on the particle trajectory. In this “rod” silicon detectors are arranged in back-to-back pairs, where the two detectors of each pair have the strips oriented at an angle, such that the crossing point of the strips provides a two-dimensional coordinate in the rod plane. Three pairs of detectors are mounted on each side of the rod structure, to fully cover its surface. In the Tracker, rods are arranged to form cylindrical layers in the central “barrel” region.

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CERN-ARCH-WP CERN-ARCH-PMC-CERN-ARCH-PMC-10-* CERN-ARCH-PMC-10-022 * 96271 · Item
Part of Pauli Manuscript Collection

Notes for the conference on Rydberg.Notes

Pauli, Wolfgang
Two references
CERN-ARCH-WP CERN-ARCH-PMC-CERN-ARCH-PMC-02-* CERN-ARCH-PMC-02-613 * 96069 · Item
Part of Pauli Manuscript Collection

Two references: O. Kofoed-Hansen, Phil. Mag. 42), 1448 (1952 [1951?]) and Physica 18, 1287, 1952.Notes

Pauli, Wolfgang
Two references
CERN-ARCH-WP CERN-ARCH-PMC-CERN-ARCH-PMC-05-* CERN-ARCH-PMC-05-682 * 96290 · Item
Part of Pauli Manuscript Collection

Two references (M. Ostrogradski and J. Rayski).Notes

Pauli, Wolfgang
Typed notes
CERN-ARCH-WP CERN-ARCH-PMC-CERN-ARCH-PMC-06-* CERN-ARCH-PMC-06-363 * 96418 · Item
Part of Pauli Manuscript Collection

Notes on articles by W. Pagel.Notes

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UA1 prototype detector
Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-DE-001 · Item · 1980
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Prototype of UA1 central detector inside a plexi tube. The UA1 experiment ran at CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron and made the Nobel Prize winning discovery of W and Z particles in 1983. The UA1 central detector was crucial to understanding the complex topology of proton-antiproton events. It played a most important role in identifying a handful of Ws and Zs among billions of collisions. The detector was essentially a wire chamber - a 6-chamber cylindrical assembly 5.8 m long and 2.3 m in diameter, the largest imaging drift chamber of its day. It recorded the tracks of charged particles curving in a 0.7 Tesla magnetic field, measuring their momentum, the sign of their electric charge and their rate of energy loss (dE/dx). Atoms in the argon-ethane gas mixture filling the chambers were ionised by the passage of charged particles. The electrons which were released drifted along an electric field shaped by field wires and were collected on sense wires. The geometrical arrangement of the 17000 field wires and 6125 sense wires allowed a spectacular 3-D interactive display of reconstructed physics events to be produced.

Jean Collombet