Performance of the MALTA telescope

Milou van Rijnbach, Giuliano Gustavino, Phil Allport, Ignacio Asensi Tortajada, Dumitru Vlad Berlea, Daniela Bortoletto, Craig Buttar, Edoardo Charbon, Florian Dachs, Valerio Dao, Dominik Dobrijevic, Leyre Flores Sanz de Acedo, Andrea Gabrielli, Martin Gazi, Laura Gonella, Vicente Gonzalez, Stefan Guidon, Matt LeBlanc, Heinz Pernegger, Francesco PiroPetra Riedler, Heidi Sandaker, Walter Snoeys, Tomislav Suligoj, Marcos Vazquez Nunez, Julian Weick, Steven Worm, Abdelhak M. Zoubir

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number581
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields
Volume83
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jul 2023

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