PANDA is one of the experiments which will be installed at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt. It will study the collisions of an antiproton beam with different fixed targets. The main focus of the experiment will be on strong interactions at the energy regime corresponding to the charm quark region. Charmonium states, open-charm mesons and charmed baryons will be studied with a high precision experiment. The tracking detectors will play an important role allowing for a precise reconstruction of particles momenta and decay vertices. In particular, in the case of short-lived particles, the contribution of the Micro-Vertex-Detector (MVD), which is the innermost tracker of the experiment, will be crucial. Detailed Monte-Carlo studies based on an implementation of the detector geometry will be presented analyzing the coverage and vertex reconstruction performance of the MVD in different physics scenarios compatible with the PANDA operational modes. Experimental results obtained with MVD prototype sensors at different particle accelerators will be shown comparing the observations with predictions from Monte-Carlo simulations of the setups. An analysis of the potential reconstruction performance of the PANDA experiment for the pp → Λc Λc reaction will be presented together with a study of the signal to background significance for the selected decay pattern.

The PANDA detector at the future FAIR facility in Darmstadt will be a key experiment in the understanding of the strong interaction at medium energies where perturbative models fail to describe the quark-quark interaction. An important feature of the detector system is the ability to reconstruct secondary decay vertices of short-lived intermediate states by means of a powerful particle tracking system with the the Micro-Vertex Detector (MVD) as central element to perform high-resolution charmonium and open-charm spectroscopy. The MVD is conceived with pixel detectors in the inner parts and double-sided silicon strip detectors at the outer half in a very lightweight design. The PANDA detector system shall be operated in a self-triggering broadband acquisition mode. Implications on the read-out electronics and the construction of the front-end assemblies are analyzed and evaluation of prototype DSSD-detectors wrt. signal-to-noise ratio, noise figures, charge sharing behavior, spacial resolution and radiation degradation discussed. Methods of electrical sensor characterization with different measurement setups are investigated which may be useful for future large-scale QA procedures. A novel algorithm for recovering multiple degenerate cluster hit patterns of double-sided strip sensors is introduced and a possible architecture of a Module Data Concentrator ASIC (MDC) aggregating multiple front-end data streams conceived. A first integrative concept for the construction and assembly of DSSD modules for the barrel part of the MVD is introduced as a conclusion of the thesis. Furthermore, a detailed description of a simplified procedure for the calculation of displacement damage in compound materials is given as reference which was found useful for the retrieval of non-ionizing energy loss for materials other than silicon.