The MuPix Telescope: A Thin, High-Rate Tracking Telescope

• Published in: Journal of instrumentation Vol. 12; no. 1; p. C01087
• Main Authors: Augustin, H., Berger, N., Dittmeier, S., Grzesik, C., Hammerich, J., Huang, Q., Huth, L., Kiehn, M., Kozlinskiy, A., Meier, F., Perić, I., Perrevoort, A.-K., Schöoning, A., Bruch, D. vom, Wauters, F., Wiedner, D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 30.01.2017
• Subjects: Active pixel sensors; Instrumentation; Particle telescopes; Particle tracking; Sensors; Serials; Telescopes; Tracking
• ISSN: 1748-0221; 1748-0221
• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/01/C01087

The MuPix Telescope is a particle tracking telescope, optimized for tracking low momentum particles at high rates. It is based on the novel High-Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (HV-MAPS), designed for the Mu3e tracking detector. The telescope represents a first application of the HV-MAPS technology and also serves as test bed of the Mu3e readout chain. The telescope consists of up to eight layers of the newest prototypes, the MuPix7 sensors, which send self-triggered data via fast serial links to FPGAs, where the data is time-ordered and sent to the PC. A particle hit rate of 1 MHz per layer could be processed. Online tracking is performed with a subset of the incoming data. The general concept of the telescope, chip architecture, readout concept and online reconstruction are described. The performance of the sensor and of the telescope during test beam measurements are presented.