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Adam, W.

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DOE OSTI2016

Trapping in irradiated p + -n-n - silicon sensors at fluences anticipated at the HL-LHC outer tracker

The degradation of signal in silicon sensors is studied under conditions expected at the CERN High-Luminosity LHC. 200μm thick n-type silicon sensors are irradiated with protons of different energies to fluences of up to 3 x 10 15 neq/cm 2 . Pulsed red laser light with a wavelength of 672 nm is used to generate electron-hole pairs in the sensors. The induced signals are used to determine the charge collection efficiencies separately for electrons and holes drifting through the sensor. The effective trapping rates are extracted by comparing the results to simulation. The electric field is simulated using Synopsys device simulation assuming two effective defects. The generation and drift of charge carriers are simulated in an independent simulation based on PixelAV. The effective trapping rates are determined from the measured charge collection efficiencies and the simulated and measured time-resolved current pulses are compared. Furthermore, the effective trapping rates determined for both electrons and holes are about 50% smaller than those obtained using standard extrapolations of studies at low fluences and suggests an improved tracker performance over initial expectations.

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DOE OSTI2016

Event generator tunes obtained from underlying event and multiparton scattering measurements

Here, new sets of parameters (“tunes”) for the underlying-event (UE) modelling of the pythia8, pythia6 and herwig++ Monte Carlo event generators are constructed using different parton distribution functions. Combined fits to CMS UE proton–proton ( $\mathrm {p}\mathrm {p}$ ) data at $\sqrt{s} = 7\,\text {TeV} $ and to UE proton–antiproton ( $\mathrm {p}\overline{\mathrm{p}} $ ) data from the CDF experiment at lower $\sqrt{s}$ , are used to study the UE models and constrain their parameters, providing thereby improved predictions for proton–proton collisions at 13 $\,\text {TeV}$ . In addition, it is investigated whether the values of the parameters obtained from fits to UE observables are consistent with the values determined from fitting observables sensitive to double-parton scattering processes. Finally, comparisons are presented of the UE tunes to “minimum bias” (MB) events, multijet, and Drell–Yan ( $ \mathrm{q} \overline{\mathrm{q}} \rightarrow \mathrm{Z}/ \gamma ^* \rightarrow $ lepton-antilepton+jets) observables at 7 and 8 $\,\text {TeV}$ , as well as predictions for MB and UE observables at 13 $\,\text {TeV}$ .

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