The Adaptive Gain Integrating Pixel Detector (AGIPD) is an x-ray imager, custom designed for the European x-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL). It is a fast, low noise integrating detector, with an adaptive gain amplifier per pixel. This has an equivalent noise of less than 1 keV when detecting single photons and, when switched into another gain state, a dynamic range of more than 104 photons of 12 keV. In burst mode the system is able to store 352 images while running at up to 6.5 MHz, which is compatible with the 4.5 MHz frame rate at the European XFEL. The AGIPD system was installed and commissioned in August 2017, and successfully used for the first experiments at the Single Particles, Clusters and Biomolecules (SPB) experimental station at the European XFEL since September 2017. This paper describes the principal components and performance parameters of the system.
@article{arxiv.1808.00256,
title = {The Adaptive Gain Integrating Pixel Detector at the European XFEL},
author = {Aschkan Allahgholi and Julian Becker and Annette Delfs and Roberto Dinapoli and Peter Goettlicher and Dominic Greiffenberg and Beat Henrich and Helmut Hirsemann and Manuela Kuhn and Robert Klanner and Alexander Klyuev and Hans Krueger and Sabine Lange and Torsten Laurus and Alessandro Marras and Davide Mezza and Aldo Mozzanica and Magdalena Niemann and Jennifer Poehlsen and Joern Schwandt and Igor Sheviakov and Xintian Shi and Sergej Smoljanin and Lothar Steffen and Jolanta Sztuk-Dambietz and Ulrich Trunk and Qingqing Xia and Mourad Zeribi and Jiaguo Zhang and Manfred Zimmer and Bernd Schmidt and Heinz Graafsma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.00256},
year = {2018}
}