Silicon microstrip detector irradiation using a 26 MeV proton beam

This paper describes the proton irradiation campaign, performed at the INFN “Laboratori Nazionali del Sud” (LNS), on a silicon microstrip detector. The irradiated module is identical to the ones which are used to assemble the tracker inner barrel of the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The aim of the test was to verify the radiation resistance of the detector module to the LHC environment by checking its behavior with increasing fluence.