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To expand its discovery potential, the Large Hadron Collider | LHC—at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland—will soon undergo a luminosity upgrade (High-Luminosity LHC | HL–LHC) facilitating a factor-of-ten increase in lifetime integrated luminosity. Compounding data from detectors like CMS and ATLAS will bolster rare-process and Beyond-Standard-Model searches while precisely constraining Standard Model measurements, but these detectors must be upgraded to cope with higher throughput. In particular, the phase-2 upgrade to CMS will feature a new silicon vertex detector: pixel sensors will form the inner tracker, but the outer tracker | OT will include 13,200 precisely sandwiched pixel–strip and strip–strip modules; the paired-sensor modules will provide onboard transverse momentum discrimination using stubs—correlated hits between paired sensors—enabling the Level-1 Trigger to use tracker data for the first time.
The Phase-2 Outer Tracker Analyzer of Test Outputs | POTATO application ensures compliance with quality-control standards across all ten worldwide production sites by analyzing and letter-grading the results of a comprehensive suite of electronics tests on modules under temperature-cycling conditions. The present work details development of POTATO's database interface, highlighting functionality that will provide testing centers consistent insight into worldwide assembly progress.
