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R. Boudagga, D. Auguste, M. Babeluk, M. Barbero, P. Barrillon, J. Baudot, T. Bergauer, F. Bernlochner, G. Bertolone, C. Bespin, S. Bettarini, A. Bevan, M. Bona, J. Bonis, F. Bosi, P. Breugnon, Y. Buch, G. Casarosa, L. Corona, D. Xu, and M. Karagounis, "Design of the OBELIX monolithic CMOS pixel sensor for the Belle II vertex detector upgrade," Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 20, no. 2, p. C02046, 2025.
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Targeting a peak luminosity of 6 × 10 ³⁵ cm -² s -¹ , the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB in Japan is considering an upgrade of its interaction region. This upgrade involves the vertex detector, which will be replaced by a new fully pixelated vertex detector (VTX). A monolithic CMOS pixel sensor named OBELIX (Optimized BELle II pIXel) is proposed to be used in the VTX. Based on the existing TJ-Monopix2 chip initially developed for the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) upgrade, OBELIX is designed in a 180 nm CMOS process with an improved pixel matrix and additional functionalities such as new on-chip voltage regulators and digital periphery. This paper will review the overall design of the VTX and the OBELIX sensor.
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DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/20/02/C02046