Volume 395 - 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021) - CRD - Cosmic Ray Direct
Performance of the DAMPE silicon-tungsten tracker during the first 5 years of in-orbit operations
Presented by C. Perrina*, P. Azzarello, E. Catanzani, A. Tykhonov and X. Wu on behalf of  on behalf of the DAMPE Collaboration, F. Alemanno, Q. An, F.C.T. Barbato, P. Bernardini, X.J. Bi, M.S. Cai, E. Casilli, J. Chang, D.Y. Chen, J.L. Chen, Z.F. Chen, M.Y. Cui, T.S. Cui, Y.X. Cui, H.T. Dai, A. De Benedittis, I. De Mitri, F. de Palma, Q. Ding, I. Di Santo, T.K. Dong, Z.X. Dong, G. Donvito, D. Droz, J.L. Duan, K.K. Duan, D. D'urso, R.R. Fan, Y.Z. Fan, F. Fang, K. Fang, C.Q. Feng, L. Feng, P. Fusco, M. Deliyergiyev, M. Gao, F. Gargano, K. Gong, Y.Z. Gong, D.Y. Guo, J.H. Guo, S.X. Han, Y.M. Hu, G.S. Huang, X.Y. Huang, Y.Y. Huang, M. Ionica, W. Jiang, J. Kong, A. Kotenko, D. Kyratzis, S.J. Lei, W.L. Li, W.H. Li, X. Li, X.Q. Li, Y.M. Liang, C.M. Liu, H. Liu, J. Liu, S.B. Liu, Y. Liu, F. Loparco, C.N. Luo, M. Ma, P.X. Ma, T. Ma, X.Y. Ma, G. Marsella, M.N. Mazziotta, D. Mo, X.Y. Niu, X. Pan, A. Parenti, W.X. Peng, X.Y. Peng, R. Qiao, J.N. Rao, A. Ruina, M.M. Salinas, G.Z. Shang, W.H. Shen, Z.Q. Shen, Z.T. Shen, L. Silveri, J.X. Song, M. Stolpovskiy, H. Su, M. Su, H. Sun, Z.Y. Sun, A. Surdo, X.J. Teng, H. Wang, J.Z. Wang, L.G. Wang, S. Wang, S.X. Wang, X.L. Wang, Y.F. Wang, Y. Wang, Y.Z. Wang, D.M. Wei, J.J. Wei, Y.F. Wei, D. Wu, J. Wu, L.B. Wu, S.S. Wu, Z.Q. Xia, E.H. Xu, H.T. Xu, Z.H. Xu, Z.Z. Xu, Z.L. Xu, G.F. Xue, H.B. Yang, P. Yang, Y.Q. Yang, H.J. Yao, Y.H. Yu, G.W. Yuan, Q. Yuan, C. Yue, J.J. Zang, S.X. Zhang, W.Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y.P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y.J. Zhang, Y.Q. Zhang, Y.L. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Z.Y. Zhang, C. Zhao, H.Y. Zhao, X.F. Zhao and C.Y. Zhouet al. (click to show)
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: August 01, 2021
Published on: March 18, 2022
Abstract
Since its launch, in December 2015, the satellite-based DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) particle detector is taking data smoothly. The Silicon-Tungsten tracKer-converter (STK) of DAMPE consists of six tracking planes (6x, 6y) of single-sided silicon micro-strip detectors mounted on seven support trays. The STK is able to measure the charge and precisely reconstruct the track of traversing charged particles. Tungsten plates (1 mm thick) are integrated in the second, third and fourth tray from the top to serve as $\gamma \rightarrow e^+e^−$ converters. Commissioned rapidly after the launch, the STK is running extremely well since then. The STK in-orbit calibration and performance during its first more than 5 years of operation, including the noise behaviour and the thermal and mechanical stability, are presented in this contribution.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.0084
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