出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：The increasing need of high performance flavour tagging capabilities in particle
physics experiments has triggered the development of a novel - fully integrated - silicon
pixel detector, called Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (i.e. MAPS). Similar to CMOS visible
light imagers, the rst MAPS prototypes adapted to the detection of minimum ionising
particles (i.e. mip) were designed and fabricated in standard CMOS technology. Their
tests with relativistic charged particles demonstrate that the sensors detect mips with
very high eciency and signal-to-noise ratio and provide excellent spatial resolution. The
main aspects of these results, which establish the adequacy of the technology for charged
particle tracking, are summarised in this paper, together with preliminary results on its
radiation hardness. An outlook on the R&D started to provide fully integrated building
blocks of future vertex detectors is also provided.
