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The HERA-B Vertex Detector System (VDS) is a Roman Pot system integrated into the proton ring of the HERA accelerator at DESY and serves as an independent part of the tracking system of the HERA-B forward spectrometer. The performance of the VDS meets the design specification. It is based on double-sided silicon micro-strip detectors which are operated as close as 1 cm to the beam and are thus exposed to extremely high and inhomogeneous radiation levels. At the design luminosity the peak irradiation is around 3×1014 minimum ionizing particles per cm2 per year. Test measurements have shown adequate radiation tolerance on the required time scale of 1 year. New long-term studies presented here indicate that on periods longer than 1 year charge collection efficiencies might drop. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The Vertex Detector System (VDS) of the HERA-B experiment is a forward microvertex detector integrated into the HERA proton storage ring at DESY. Double-sided silicon microstrip detectors mounted in Roman pots are operated at typically 1 cm distance from the beam in a LHC-like high radiation environment. This paper presents results from the commissioning of the VDS that show its performance to meet the specifications. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]