The ePIC Silicon Vertex Tracker: Design and Status

TL;DR

The paper describes the design and development status of the Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) for the ePIC detector at the Electron-Ion Collider, emphasizing its high-precision tracking capabilities using Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors.

Contribution

It provides a detailed overview of the SVT design, highlighting its innovative use of MAPS technology for high granularity and low material budget in a future collider detector.

Findings

SVT design incorporates Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS).

The system achieves high-precision tracking with minimal material.

Development status indicates progress towards implementation.

Abstract

The ePIC collaboration is developing a multidetector system to explore the fundamental properties of the strong interaction at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), to be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A key component of the ePIC detector is the Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT), which provides high-precision tracking and microvertex reconstruction. The SVT consists of the Inner Barrel (IB), the Outer Barrel (OB), and the Forward/Backward Disks, all based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) that combine high granularity, low power consumption, and minimal material budget. This paper presents a concise overview of the SVT design and its development status.