A High-Performance Silicon Tracker for the CBM Experiment at FAIR

(CBM Collaboration) The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at GSI's future international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will study strongly interacting matter at high baryon densities. The central component of the fixed-target heavy-ion spectrometer is a high-performance silicon vertex tracker. It applies most advanced pixel and microstrip detectors to track exclusively the charged particles created in the collisions and to reconstruct decay vertices from 'open charm'. The development of the silicon tracker is challenging and includes R&D on ultra low-mass sensors and support structures, extreme radiation hardness, and fast self-triggered readout.