1. Performance of the MALTA Telescope
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van Rijnbach, Milou, Gustavino, Giuliano, Allport, Phil, Tortajada, Ignacio A., Berlea, Dumitru V., Bortoletto, Daniela, Buttar, Craig, Charbon, Edoardo, Dachs, Florian, Dao, Valerio, Dobrijevic, Dominik, de Acedo, Leyre F. S., Gabrielli, Andrea, Gazi, Martin, Gonella, Laura, Gonzalez, Vicente, Guidon, Stefan, LeBlanc, Matt, Pernegger, Heinz, Piro, Francesco, Riedler, Petra, Sandaker, Heidi, Sharma, Abhishek, Sanchez, Carlos S., Snoeys, Walter, Suligoj, Tomislav, Nunez, Marcos V., Weick, Julian, Worm, Steven, and Zoubir, Abdelhak M.
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Astrophysics and Astronomy ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,hep-ex ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Particle Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,astro-ph.IM - Abstract
MALTA is part of the Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel sensors designed in Tower 180 nm CMOS imaging technology. A custom telescope with six MALTA planes has been developed for test beam campaigns at SPS, CERN, with the ability to host several devices under test. The telescope system has a dedicated custom readout, online monitoring integrated into DAQ with realtime hit map, time distribution and event hit multiplicity. It hosts a dedicated fully configurable trigger system enabling to trigger on coincidence between telescope planes and timing reference from a scintillator. The excellent time resolution performance allows for fast track reconstruction, due to the possibility to retain a low hit multiplicity per event which reduces the combinatorics. This paper reviews the architecture of the system and its performance during the 2021 and 2022 test beam campaign at the SPS North Area. MALTA is part of the Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel sensors designed in Tower 180nm CMOS imaging technology. A custom telescope with six MALTA planes has been developed for test beam campaigns at SPS, CERN, with the ability to host several devices under test. The telescope system has a dedicated custom readout, online monitoring integrated into DAQ with realtime hit map, time distribution and event hit multiplicity. It hosts a dedicated fully configurable trigger system enabling to trigger on coincidence between telescope planes and timing reference from a scintillator. The excellent time resolution performance allows for fast track reconstruction, due to the possibility to retain a low hit multiplicity per event which reduces the combinatorics. This paper reviews the architecture of the system and its performance during the 2021 and 2022 test beam campaign at the SPS North Area.
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- 2023
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