Towards a Measurement of the Mean Number of Charge Carriers Created by a MIP in sCVD Diamond using the EUDET Telescope

We plan to measure precisely the charge created by ionisation when a high energy particle of precisely known energy crosses a single crystal diamond and from here the energy which is deposited in the material. In the literature the amount of charge carriers liberated by a minimum ionising particle (MIP) in diamond is assumed to be 36 electron-hole pairs per micrometer of traversed material. This document presents a first look at the data collected in December 2007 at the DESY test beam facility using the EUDET beam telescope.