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The CMS FPix

One fourth of the CMS Forward Pixel detector. This section has about 1000 readout chips, each with about 4000 pixels. So the entire forward pixel detector has about 18 million pixels. There are another 48 million pixels in the barrel section (not shown here). So it is somewhat similar to a 66MP digital camera, except that we take 40 million pictures every second!

 

 

Tenuous Link: chipped->chips

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Uploaded on March 13, 2009
Taken on March 11, 2009