TRACS: A multi-thread transient current simulator for micro strips and pad detectors

Abstract

The requisites at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have driven silicon tracking detectors to the fringe of the modern technology. The next upgrade of the LHC to a 10 times increased luminosity of 7.5×10 cm s will require semiconductor detectors with substantially improved radiation hardness. CERN-RD50 collaboration mandate is to provide detector technologies, which are able to operate in such an environment. Within this context, this paper describes the approaches and first results of a C++11 multi-threading software based on the Shockley–Ramo's theorem to simulate non-irradiated and irradiated silicon micro-strips and pad detectors of complex geometries in order to understand signal formation and charge collection efficiencies of arbitrary charge distributions.