The design and construction of a double-sided silicon microvertex detector for the L3 experiment at CERN

摘要

A silicon microvertex detector (SMD) has been commissioned for the L3 experiment at the Large Electron-Positron colliding-beam accelerator (LEP) at CERN. The SMD is a 72,672 channel, two layer barrel tracker that is comprised of 96 ac-coupled, double-sided silicon detectors. Details of the design and construction are presented.