Irradiation of a silicon-strip detector for the ALICE experiment at LHC

Abstract The ALICE detector at LHC is a complex apparatus which makes use, in its inner tracking-system part, of silicon-strip detectors (SSD). These sensors will be exposed to radiations which might possibly harm their performance as well as that of the associated readout electronics. In the framework of a R&D, a detection module, incorporating SSD and readout electronics, has been irradiated with 20 MeV protons up to 530 krad . Results relative to the static and the dynamic characteristics of this module are presented and discussed.