Overview and Status of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker

Abstract

The CMS experiment at the LHC features the largest Silicon Strip Detector ever built. The impact of the operating conditions and physics requirements on the design choices of the CMS Silicon Tracker is reviewed. The readiness of the Silicon Strip Tracker for the tentatively scheduled CMS commissioning in Summer 2008 is briefly described.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, conference proceedings for the 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Manchester, England, 19-25 July 200