The LHCb Silicon Tracker

The aim of the LHCb experiment is to study rare heavy quark decays and CP violation with the high rate of beauty and charmed hadrons produced in pp collisions at the LHC. The detector is designed as a single-arm forward spectrometer with excellent tracking and particle identification performance. The Silicon Tracker is a key part of the tracking system to measure the particle trajectories to high precision. This paper reports the performance as well as the results of the radiation damage monitoring based on leakage currents and on charge collection efficiency scans during the data taking in the LHC Run I.