Forward Silicon Vertex Detector (FVTX)
FVTX is a silicon detector developed for forward and backward rapidity
charged particle tracking. The detector was created for use in the Pioneering High
Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment (PHENIX). The mission of PHENIX is to
discover and study a new state of matter called the Quark-Gluon Plasma.
Read more
about PHENIX here: PHENIX: A Physics Experiment at RHIC
“A forward silicon vertex detector (the FVTX) … developed to provide the PHENIX
experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National
Laboratory (BNL) with precise charged particle tracking at forward and backward
rapidity. “
-FVTX Technical Report, LA-UR-15-20720

One-half of the forward silicon vertex detector (FVTX) silicon tracking detector
showing a split-view of the two endcaps, one on the left and one on the right.

The assembled FVTX detector. (www.phenix.bnl.gov)

FVTX experiment set-up. (www.phenix.bnl.gov)
Further Information
The Forward Silicon Vertex Detector (FVTX) GroupAidala, et al. "The PHENIX Forward Silicon Vertex Detector." Feb. 2014.
Durham. "The Forward Silicon Vertex Detector." PHENIX FVTX Group.
FVTX Technical Report, LA-UR-15-20720