ALICE/ITS/SSD module assembly

Table of Contents
Collaboration
Personnel
Physics Challenge
Inner Tracking System
SSD Module
Links and Documents

News
Laboratory slides
LECC drafts
SAB slides, May 2005
First thermal cycling tests, October 2003
Photos on the beamtest, September 2003
ITS gluing workshop at CERN, March 2003
Status of the project, September 2002
Laser Scanning Microscopy on bondings, May 2002
Status of the laboratory, April 2002

Overview

Our group participates in the ALICE experiment by assembling Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) modules for the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) in the Detector Laboratory of HIP. Assembling of the modules contains numerous phases from which bonding of the detectors and front-end electronics, protection of the bondings and testing of the assembled modules are the most visible ones. The bonding will be made using single-point tape-automated bonding (TAB) technique. The use of this technique minimizes the material in the SSD modules, crucial for minimizing background, and makes interconnections between components very flexible due to use of thin Kapton/Al cables. A way of using very thin, 14-micron-thick, Al leads on top of a 12-micron-thick Kapton layer have been developed in Ukraine. In the module assembly we are counting on this expertise and our Ukrainian collaborators will have a crucial role in the assembly project. More information on the assembly phases you can find from the Links and Documents page under Documents.

Last modified on September 21st 2003 by
Markku Oinonen

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