Pixel chamber: A solid-state bubble chamber for imaging of charm and beauty

Mulliri, A.;Arba, M.;Bhattacharya, P.;Casula, E.;Cicalo, C.;De Falco, A.;Marras, D.;Masoni, A.;Siddhanta, S.;Tuveri, M.;Usai, G.

2021-01-01

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Abstract

The Pixel Chamber project proposes to realize the first “solid-state bubble chamber” detector for measurements of charm and beauty. It is conceived as a stack of hundreds of thin and granular monolithic pixel sensors which provide a 3D image of all of the particles produced in proton-silicon interactions occurring inside the detector volume. In this paper we will discuss the high-precision tracking and vertexing performances, showing that the vertex resolution can be up to one order of magnitude better than state-of-the-art detectors like the LHCb one.