Beamline for 4D Tracking

Dr. Brendan Regnery (ETP, KIT) and Dr. Luca Menzio (CERN) led a team of ETP students in a test beam campaign to measure the next generation of silicon sensors. ETP is collaborating with the University/INFN Torino and CERN to study the Resistive Silicon Detector—a promising candidate for future 4D tracking systems.  These novel devices combine precise spatial and temporal resolution, enabling a completely new type of tracking detector. By mapping a particle’s path in both space and time, such tracking systems can reconstruct collisions more accurately, reduce computational demands, and extract additional information about the type of particle traversing the detector. 

The team successfully collected data at CERN using a high-energy pion beam. Over the coming weeks and months, they will perform a detailed analysis of the results as part of their ongoing study of Resistive Silicon Detectors.