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One of the main physics motivations for the future large hadron colliders, the SSC in the U.S.A. and the LHC proposed at CERN, is the study of the mass generation mechanisms for particles. The Higgs mechanism requires new massive bosons, the search of which leads to the requirement of very high luminosities at the proposed multi-TeV collision energies. The design parameters for the planned LHC, for example, basing on such searches, aim at luminosities of (2 – 4) ·1034 cm−;s−1 at the maximum colliding beam energies of 8 TeV. This, combined with the large multiplicity at high energies, will entail severe problems for any existing vertex detector. Radiation damage, spatial resolution, timing resolution and readout are among the most evident. It has been proposed that these problems could be solved by applying superconducting microstrip detectors, made of suitable radiation-hard materials, such as niobium nitride (NbN).
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Niinikoski, T.O., Rijllart, A., Strehl, B., Winter, K., Caria, M. (1991). Superconducting Strips for Microvertex Detectors. In: Cifarelli, L., Ypsilantis, T. (eds) New Technologies for Supercolliders. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 57. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1360-1_17
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