R. Kluit

TL;DR: The Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) as discussed by the authors is a general-purpose, heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC which focuses on QCD, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model.

TL;DR: The two outermost layers of the ALICE Inner Tracking System consist of 1698 double-sided silicon microstrip modules, which form the Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated phase-locked loop (PLL) was developed that locally generates a clock signal for the 160 Mbit/s output data stream from the 40 MHz bunch crossing reference clock.

TL;DR: The design of the control electronics of the front-end of the ALICE SSD is described, which will be built with the HAL25 (LEPSI) chip and includes the main EndCap functions, which control the local JTAG bus, distribution of incoming control signals for the back-end and buffering of the outgoing analogue detector data.

TL;DR: In this article, the beam test results of the first four double-sided silicon strip modules built for the inner tracker of ALICE detector were presented, with the focus made on the efficiency and spatial resolution determination.