Analysis and Grading of the Test Performance of PS Modules for the CMS Phase-II Outer Tracker Upgrade
The Outer Tracker detector of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment provides information about the trajectory of charged particles produced in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). During the High Luminosity LHC upgrade, scheduled for the late 2020s, the Outer Tracker will be replaced with new modules capable of transmitting data to the L1 Trigger. These modules are being assembled at several facilities around the world, including Fermilab, necessitating coordinated standards of module quality. Here I discuss the development of POTATO (Phase-II Outer Tracker Analyzer of Test Outputs), a C++ software which provides a standardized procedure for analyzing and grading test results of the Outer Tracker modules. The particular focus of this paper is on the analysis and grading of the PS (pixel-strip) modules in POTATO.