Commissioning and first data taking experience with the Belle II pixel vertex detector
by Harrison Schreeck
Date of Examination:2020-05-22
Date of issue:2020-07-01
Advisor:Prof. Dr. Ariane Frey
Referee:Prof. Dr. Ariane Frey
Referee:PD Dr. Jörn Große-Knetter
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The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB particle accelerator at KEK in Tsukuba (Japan) is the successor to the Belle experiment, which played a crucial role in the discovery of CP violation in the B-Meson system. The vertex detector of Belle II was upgraded with two layers of a DEPFET based pixel detector (PXD) to improve the vertex resolution compared to Belle. This thesis gives an overview of the PXD and its individual components. The focus of the work lies on the transition from a pure laboratory system to a fully integrated one in Belle II. Before the final detector components were installed at Belle II, a pre-experiment called phase 2 was conducted to test the new parts. A description of the necessary steps and changes to the hardware configuration and software as well as a report on the operation experiences gathered during phase 2 is given in this thesis. Additionally, this thesis reports on the effects of ionising radiation on the PXD sensors and their DEPFET matrices. This includes a description of the radiation sources at particle accelerators in general and SuperKEKB in particular. In order to get a better understanding of the radiation effects seen on the PXD sensors during the phase 2 operation an X-ray irradiation campaign was performed. In this campaign a single PXD sensor belonging to the same batch as the final sensors was irradiated. The DEPFETs of the PXD sensor received a dose of 266 kGy during this campaign. A detailed description of the campaign and the results gathered from it are presented.
Keywords: Belle II; DEPFET; Radiation damage; Particle tracking detectors