Recent Progress in CERN RD39: Radiation Hard Cryogenic Silicon Detectors for Applications in LHC Experiments and Their Future Upgrades.

CERN RD39 Collaboration develops radiation-hard cryogenic silicon detectors. Recently, we have demonstrated improved radiation hardness in novel Current Injected Detectors (CID). For detector characterization, we have applied cryogenic Transient Current Technique (C-TCT). In beam tests, heavily irradiated CID detector showed capability for particle detection. Our results show that the CID detectors are operational at the temperature -50° C after the fluence of 1 × 1016 1 MeV neutron equivalent/cm2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]