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The CMS experiment at the LHC includes a hybrid silicon pixel detector for the reconstruction of charged tracks and of the interaction vertices. The barrel region consists of n-in-n sensors with 100X150 um^2 cell size processed on diffusion…

The Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE) searches for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations using the ~1 GeV neutrino beam produced by the FNAL Booster synchrotron. The array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) lining the MiniBooNE…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-18 R. B. Patterson , E. M. Laird , Y. Liu , P. D. Meyers , I. Stancu , H. A. Tanaka

We present the design of a Faraday cup-like charged particle detector in a four quadrant configuration aimed at facilitating the alignment of low-intensity beams of exotic particles. The device is capable of assessing the current on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-13 Kilian Brenner , Michael Zimmermann , Maik Butterling , Andreas Wagner , Christoph Hugenschmidt , Francesco Guatieri

The Topmetal-M is a large area pixel sensor (18 mm * 23 mm) prototype fabricated in a new 130 nm high-resistivity CMOS process in 2019. It contains 400 rows * 512 columns square pixels with the pitch of 40 {\mu}m. In Topmetal-M, a novel…

The physics aims at the proposed high-energy $e^+e^-$ collider CLIC pose challenging demands on the performance of the detector system. Precise hit-time tagging, an excellent spatial resolutions, and a low mass are required for the vertex…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Jens Kröger

Test beam facilities are essential to study the response of novel detectors to particles. At the DESY II Test Beam facility, users can test their detectors with an electron beam with a momentum from 1-6 GeV. To track the beam particles,…

To cope with the harsh environment foreseen at the high luminosity conditions of HL- LHC, the ATLAS pixel detector has to be upgraded to be fully efficient with a good granularity, a maximized geometrical acceptance and an high read out…

Silicon pixel detectors produced according to the ATLAS Pixel Detector design were tested in a beam at CERN in the framework of the ATLAS collaboration. The detectors used n+/n sensors with oxygenated silicon substrates. The experimental…

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A description is provided of the software algorithms developed for the CMS tracker both for reconstructing charged-particle trajectories in proton-proton interactions and for using the resulting tracks to estimate the positions of the LHC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-29 CMS Collaboration

The CLIC Tracker Detector (CLICTD) is a monolithic pixel sensor. It is fabricated in a 180 nm CMOS imaging process, modified with an additional deep low-dose n-type implant to obtain full lateral depletion. The sensor features a small…

The construction of low mass vertex detectors with a high level of system integration is of great interest for next generation collider experiments. Radiation length images with a sufficient spatial resolution can be used to measure and…

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We discuss a method to reconstruct two-dimensional proton bunch densities using vertex distributions accumulated during LHC beam-beam scans. The $x$-$y$ correlations in the beam shapes are studied and an alternative luminosity calibration…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-10 Markus Klute , Catherine Medlock , Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen

The pixel detector of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment consists of three barrel layers and two disks for each endcap. The detector was installed in summer 2008, commissioned with charge injections, and operated in the 3.8 T magnetic…

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Unsegmented, large-volume liquid scintillator (LS) neutrino detectors have proven to be a key technology for low-energy neutrino physics. The efficient rejection of radionuclide background induced by cosmic muon interactions is of paramount…

Position resolution is a key property of the innermost layer of the upgraded ATLAS and CMS pixel detectors for determining track reconstruction and flavor tagging performance. The 11 GeV electron beam at the SLAC End Station A was used to…

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A monolithic pixel sensor in deep-submicron Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology has been designed, manufactured and characterised. This technology is of significant interest for applications in particle tracking and imaging. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-07-02 Marco Battaglia , Dario Bisello , Devis Contarato , Peter Denes , Piero Giubilato , Lindsay E. Glesener , Serena Mattiazzo , Chinh Vu

We demonstrate three-dimensional track reconstruction of electrons in a low pressure (50 Torr) optical TPC consisting of two glass GEMs with an ITO strip readout in CF4 and CF4/Ar mixtures. The reconstructed tracks show a variety of event…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-21 Elizabeth Tilly , Magnus Handley , MIGDAL Collaboration

This paper presents the results of the characterisation of a thin, fully depleted pixel sensor manufactured in SOI technology on high-resistivity substrate with high momentum charged particles. The sensor is thinned to 70 $\mu$m and a thin…

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A small set of final prototypes of the ATLAS Inner Detector silicon tracker (Pixel and SCT) were used to take data during the 2004 Combined Test Beam. Data were collected from runs with beams of different flavour (electrons, pions, muons…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-12 A. Ahmad , A. Andreazza , T. Atkinson , J. Baines , A. J. Barr , R. Beccherle , P. J. Bell , J. Bernabeu , Z. Broklova , P. A. Bruckman de Renstrom , D. Cauz , L. Chevalier , S. Chouridou , M. Citterio , A. Clark , M. Cobal , T. Cornelissen , S. Correard , M. J. Costa , D. Costanzo , S. Cuneo , M. Dameri , G. Darbo , J. B. de Vivie , B. Di Girolamo , D. Dobos , Z. Drasal , J. Drohan , K. Einsweiler , M. Elsing , D. Emelyanov , C. Escobar , K. Facius , P. Ferrari , D. Fergusson , D. Ferrere , T. Flick , D. Froidevaux , G. Gagliardi , M. Gallas , B. J. Gallop , K. K. Gan , C. Garcia , I. L. Gavrilenko , C. Gemme , P. Gerlach , T. Golling , S. Gonzalez-Sevilla , M. J. Goodrick , G. Gorfine , T. Goettfert , J. Grosse-Knetter , P. H. Hansen , K. Hara , R. Hartel , A. Harvey , R. J. Hawkings , F. E. W. Heinemann , T. Henns , J. C. Hill , F. Huegging , E. Jansen , J. Joseph , M. Karagoz Unel , M. Kataoka , S. Kersten , A. Khomich , R. Klingenberg , P. Kodys , T. Koffas , N. Konstantinidis , V. Kostyukhin , C. Lacasta , T. Lari , S. Latorre , C. G. Lester , W. Liebig , A. Lipniacka , K. F. Lourerio , M. Mangin-Brinet , S. Marti i Garcia , M. Mathes , C. Meroni , B. Mikulec , B. Mindur , S. Moed , G. Moorhead , P. Morettini , E. W. J. Moyse , K. Nakamura , P. Nechaeva , K. Nikolaev , F. Parodi , S. Parzhitski , J. Pater , R. Petti , P. W. Phillips , B. Pinto , A. Poppleton , K. Reeves , I. Reisinger , P. Reznicek , P. Risso , D. Robinson , S. Roe , A. Rozanov , A. Salzburger , H. Sandaker , L. Santi , C. Schiavi , J. Schieck , J. Schultes , A. Sfyrla , C. Shaw , F. Tegenfeldt , C. J. W. P. Timmermans , B. Toczek , C. Troncon , M. Tyndel , F. Vernocchi , J. Virzi , T. Vu Anh , M. Warren , J. Weber , M. Weber , A. R. Weidberg , J. Weingarten , P. S. Wells , A. Zhelezko

While designed primarily for X-ray imaging applications, the Medipix3 ASIC can also be used for charged-particle tracking. In this work, results from a beam test at the CERN SPS with irradiated and non-irradiated sensors are presented and…