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4 Particle Physics at LHC/CMSC. Amsler, V. Dubacher, R. Kaufmann, A. Maag, F. Ould-Saada, P. Robmann,S. Spanier, S. Steiner, P. Truol and T. WalterIn collaboration with: ETH-Zurich, Paul Scherrer Institut (Villigen), UniversitatBasel and the CMS CollaborationIn last years annual report we announced that we had joined the LHC/CMS Col-laboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN [1]. B-physics at LHC, on whichwe plan to concentrate, requires a good reconstruction capability for secondary ver-tices from B-decays. We are therefore contributing to the inner tracker, in particularthe silicon pixel detector, its readout system and the mechanical support structure.We also participate in the design and construction of the microstrip gas chambers.4.1 Pixel DetectorThe barrel pixel detector is made of 2 cylindrical layers, 65 cm long, with 55 millionpixels (125125 m2) at a radial distance of 77 mm and 117 mm from the beamaxis. The pixels are arranged in rows of detectors along the beam direction (z), eachdetector containing a double row of 64  64 pixels. The position resolution willbe improved by comparing the energy deposits from the electron cloud on adjacentpixels. The goal is to achieve a position resolution of =15 m in both r and z.During two beam periods at CERN we tested two prototypes (manufactured byCSEM in Neucha?tel) for the silicon pixel detector. The detectors (g.4.1) were madeof n-doped 4 8 mm2 silicon wafers with a thickness of 300 m and a sensitive pixelarea of 1 4 mm2 containing 256 pixels (32 8) with a size of 125 125 m2. Thepixel cells were connected to two Premux128 readout chips (2 128 channels), oneon each side of the detector.The rst beam test, with preliminary results presented in last years annualreport, was performed at the CERN-SPS with 50 GeV pions to measure the positionresolution [2]. In the 4 T magnetic eld of CMS (which is perpendicular to theelectric eld in the silicon detector) the electron cloud does not follow the elec