Eh. Smith et Gr. Kalbfleisch, DOUBLE-SIDED SILICON CHARGE CORRELATION STUDY - MATCHING MULTIPLE TRACK HITS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 371(3), 1996, pp. 428-433
Double-sided microstripe silicon detectors with analog charge readout
offer the possibility of correlating the hits seen on the two sides by
matching the cluster charges, providing the signal to noise ratio is
sufficiently high. We make a study of this matching from actual beam t
est data of tracks incident upon two Micron DC-coupled microstripe det
ectors. A simple algorithm, or simple cuts, are used to match the doub
le-sided charges. Results as a function of the number of simultaneous
tracks incident and of the signal to noise (from 15: 1 to 30:1) are gi
ven. We find that charge correlations should be helpful in reducing th
e N-2 combinatorics usually operative in track finding, matching and f
itting.