Setup for testing LHCb Inner Tracker Modules

TL;DR

This paper describes the testing setup for LHCb Inner Tracker modules, including burn-in and aging tests using final electronics and custom temperature cycling, ensuring quality before deployment.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive testing setup employing the same electronics as the final experiment, integrating multiple control and data acquisition systems.

Findings

Successful implementation of burn-in and aging tests

Integration of control systems with custom temperature cycling

Validation of testing setup for module quality assurance

Abstract

The Inner Tracker of the LHCb experiment is a silicon microstrip detector consisting of 336 detector modules with either one or two sensors. The module production is now underway and we present here the setup employed for module testing during the production. The setup is based on the same electronics that will be used in the final experiment. We perform burn-in and ageing tests with the help of a custom made Temperature Cycling Box controlled with LabVIEW under Windows. The DAQ is done in another PC running Linux. Here we integrate the different C/C++ libraries used to communicate to the LHCb Time and Fast Control system,Experiment Control System and Data Acquisition.