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Title First LHC beam induced tracks reconstructed in the LHCb VELO
Author(s) Parkes, C (Glasgow U.) ; Borghi, S (Glasgow U.) ; Bates, A (Glasgow U.) ; Eklund, L (Glasgow U.) ; Gersabeck, M (Glasgow U.) ; Marinho, F (Glasgow U.) ; Rakotomiaramanana, B (Glasgow U.) ; Rodrigues, E (Glasgow U.) ; Szumlak, T (Glasgow U.) ; Affolder, A (Liverpool U.) ; Bowcock, T (Liverpool U.) ; Casse, G (Liverpool U.) ; Donleavy, S (Liverpool U.) ; Hennessy, K (Liverpool U.) ; Huse, T (Liverpool U.) ; Hutchcroft, D (Liverpool U.) ; Mylroie-Smith, J (Liverpool U.) ; Noor, A (Liverpool U.) ; Patel, G (Liverpool U.) ; Rinnert, K (Liverpool U.) ; Smith, N A (Liverpool U.) ; Shears, T (Liverpool U.) ; Tobin, M (Liverpool U.) ; John, M (Oxford U., JAI) ; Bay, A (EPFL, Lausanne) ; Frei, R (EPFL, Lausanne) ; Haefeli, G (EPFL, Lausanne) ; Keune, A (EPFL, Lausanne) ; Anderson, J (University Coll., Dublin) ; McNulty, R (University Coll., Dublin) ; Traynor, S (University Coll., Dublin) ; Basiladze, S (Moscow State U.) ; Leflat, A (Moscow State U.) ; Artuso, M (Syracuse U.) ; Borgia, A (Syracuse U.) ; Lefeuvre, G (Syracuse U.) ; Mountain, R (Syracuse U.) ; Wang, J (Syracuse U.) ; Akiba, K (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; van Beuzekom, M (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Jans, E (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Ketel, T (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Mous, I (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Papadelis, A (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Van Lysebetten, A (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Verlaat, B (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; de Vries, H (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Behrendt, O (CERN) ; Buytaert, J (CERN) ; de Capua, S (CERN) ; Collins, P (CERN) ; Ferro-Luzzi, M (CERN)
Publication 2009
In: Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 604 (2009) 1-4
DOI 10.1016/j.nima.2009.01.215
Subject category Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN LHC ; LHCb
Abstract The Vertex Locator of the LHCb experiment has been used to fully reconstruct beam induced tracks at the LHC. A beam of protons was collided with a beam absorber during the LHC synchronisation test of the anti-clockwise beam on the weekend 22nd–24th August 2008. The resulting particles have been observed by the Vertex Locator. The LHCb Vertex Locator is a silicon micro-strip detector containing 21 planes of modules. Tracks were observed passing through up to 19 modules (38 silicon sensors). A total of over 700 tracks were reconstructed, and are being used to study the calibration and alignment of the detector.

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