The silicon VerteX Detector of the Belle II experiment

Abstract

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB flavour factory will operate at an unprecedented luminosity of 8 × 1035cm-2s-1, which is about 40 times larger than its predecessor KEKB. The VerteX Detector is composed of a two-layer DEPFET PiXel Detector (PXD) and a four-layer double sided silicon strip detector (SVD). To achieve a precise vertex position determination and an excellent low-momentum tracking, even under the high background and high trigger rate of 10kHz, the SVD employs several innovative techniques. In order to reduce the occupancy and to minimise the parasitic capacitance in the signal path, 1748 APV25 ASIC chips, which read-out signals from 224k strip channels, are directly mount..