European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields (Jul 2023)
Performance of the MALTA telescope
- Milou van Rijnbach,
- Giuliano Gustavino,
- Phil Allport,
- Ignacio Asensi Tortajada,
- Dumitru Vlad Berlea,
- Daniela Bortoletto,
- Craig Buttar,
- Edoardo Charbon,
- Florian Dachs,
- Valerio Dao,
- Dominik Dobrijevic,
- Leyre Flores Sanz de Acedo,
- Andrea Gabrielli,
- Martin Gazi,
- Laura Gonella,
- Vicente Gonzalez,
- Stefan Guidon,
- Matt LeBlanc,
- Heinz Pernegger,
- Francesco Piro,
- Petra Riedler,
- Heidi Sandaker,
- Abhishek Sharma,
- Carlos Solans Sanchez,
- Walter Snoeys,
- Tomislav Suligoj,
- Marcos Vazquez Nunez,
- Julian Weick,
- Steven Worm,
- Abdelhak M. Zoubir
Affiliations
- Milou van Rijnbach
- CERN
- Giuliano Gustavino
- CERN
- Phil Allport
- University of Birmingham
- Ignacio Asensi Tortajada
- CERN
- Dumitru Vlad Berlea
- DESY
- Daniela Bortoletto
- University of Oxford
- Craig Buttar
- University of Glasgow
- Edoardo Charbon
- EPFL
- Florian Dachs
- CERN
- Valerio Dao
- CERN
- Dominik Dobrijevic
- CERN
- Leyre Flores Sanz de Acedo
- CERN
- Andrea Gabrielli
- CERN
- Martin Gazi
- University of Oxford
- Laura Gonella
- University of Birmingham
- Vicente Gonzalez
- Universitat de València
- Stefan Guidon
- CERN
- Matt LeBlanc
- CERN
- Heinz Pernegger
- CERN
- Francesco Piro
- CERN
- Petra Riedler
- CERN
- Heidi Sandaker
- University of Oslo
- Abhishek Sharma
- CERN
- Carlos Solans Sanchez
- CERN
- Walter Snoeys
- CERN
- Tomislav Suligoj
- University of Zagreb
- Marcos Vazquez Nunez
- CERN
- Julian Weick
- CERN
- Steven Worm
- DESY
- Abdelhak M. Zoubir
- Technische Universität Darmstadt
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11760-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 83,
no. 7
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Abstract MALTA is part of the Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel sensors designed in Tower 180 nm CMOS imaging technology. A custom telescope with six MALTA planes has been developed for test beam campaigns at SPS, CERN, with the ability to host several devices under test. The telescope system has a dedicated custom readout, online monitoring integrated into DAQ with realtime hit map, time distribution and event hit multiplicity. It hosts a dedicated fully configurable trigger system enabling to trigger on coincidence between telescope planes and timing reference from a scintillator. The excellent time resolution performance allows for fast track reconstruction, due to the possibility to retain a low hit multiplicity per event which reduces the combinatorics. This paper reviews the architecture of the system and its performance during the 2021 and 2022 test beam campaign at the SPS North Area.
