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Alignment of the CMS silicon strip tracker during stand-alone commissioning

The silicon tracker sits at the heart of the CMS detector, which studies collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The CMS tracker is the largest in the world, and it detects and reconstructs charged particles produced in proton collisions. The unprecedented size required extreme accuracy in aligning the many layers of silicon detector elements. With STFC support (PP/E000479/1) I and my PhD student and RA developed new non-parametric statistical tools (DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/368/1/012046) which were used to monitor the performance of the detector during commissioning. Subsequent STFC support for designing a potential upgraded tracker has recently been awarded (ST/K003224/1)