The silicon tracker for the NA62 experiment has to provide both a time resolution of 150 ps rms and a space resolution of about 100 mu m rms. These challenging specifications require the development of a new readout electronics in order to address the problem of measuring the tracks arrival time with such a high channel density. Moreover, the high particle density (up to 1.5 MHz/mm(2) in the center and 0.8-1 GHz in total) requires a high speed measurement and data transmission in order to keep the dead time below 1%. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Mazza, G., Ceccucci, A., Cortina Gil, E., Ramusino, A. C., Dellacasa, G., Fiorini, M., Garbolino, S., Jarron, P., Kaplon, J., Kluge, A., Marchetto, F., Martin, E., Martoiu, S., Noy, M., Petrucci, F., Riedler, P., Rivetti, A., & Tiuraniemi, S. (2010). The NA62 Gigatracker pixel detector system. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 617(1-3), 558-559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.10.013 (Original work published 2010)