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For its physics program with a high-intensity hadron beam of up to 2e7 particles/s, the COMPASS experiment at CERN requires tracking of charged particles scattered by very small angles with respect to the incident beam direction. While good…

The Argonne Pixel Tracking Telescope is installed at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. The telescope consists of six planar n^{+}-in-n silicon sensors with a pixel size of 250 {\times} 50 {\mu}m^{2}. The instrumentation of the telescope is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-30 Vallary Bhopatkar , Mathieu Benoit , Binbin Dong , Moritz Kiehn , Joseph Lambert , Jessica Metcalfe , Joseph Muse , Daniel Wilbern

Combining gaseous detectors with a high-granularity pixelated charge readout enables experimental applications which otherwise could not be achieved. This includes high-resolution tracking of low-energetic particles, requiring ultra-low…

This work aims to characterize ultra high dose rate pulses (UHDpulse) electron beams using the hybrid semiconductor pixel detector. The Timepix3 (TPX3) ASIC chip was used to measure the composition, spatial, time, and spectral…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 C. Oancea , C. Bălan , J. Pivec , C. Granja , J. Jakubek , D. Chvatil , V. Olsansky , V. Chiş

This study investigates the response of Timepix3 semiconductor pixel detectors in proton beams of varying intensities, with a focus on FLASH proton therapy. Using the Timepix3 ASIC chip, we measured the spatial and spectral characteristics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-02 C. Oancea , J. Šolc , C. Granja , E. Bodenstein , F. Horst , J. Pawelke , J. Jakubek

CLIC is a proposed linear e+e- collider designed to provide particle collisions at center-of-mass energies of up to 3 TeV. Precise measurements of the properties of the top quark and the Higgs boson, as well as searches for Beyond the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-21 Simon Spannagel

A testbeam telescope, based on ATLAS IBL silicon pixel modules, has been built. It comprises six planes of planar silicon sensors with 250 x 50 um^2 pitch, read out by ATLAS FE-I4 chips. In the CERN SPS H8 beamline (180 GeV pi+) a…

We report the demonstration of a low-power pixelated readout system designed for three-dimensional ionization charge detection and digital readout of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). Unambiguous 3D charge readout was…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-12 D. A. Dwyer , M. Garcia-Sciveres , D. Gnani , C. Grace , S. Kohn , M. Kramer , A. Krieger , C. J. Lin , K. B. Luk , P. Madigan , C. Marshall , H. Steiner , T. Stezelberger

This contribution investigates a prototype of a TPC readout with a highly pixelated CMOS ASIC, which is an option for charged particles tracking of the ILC. A triple GEM stack was joined with a TimePix and MediPix2 chip (pixel size of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-16 A. Bamberger , K. Desch , U. Renz , M. Titov , N. Vlasov , P. Wienemann , S. Zimmermann , A. Zwerger

This work presents the first measurements performed on the Timespot1 ASIC. As the second prototype developed for the TimeSPOT project, the ASIC features a 32x32 channels hybrid-pixel matrix. Targeted to space-time tracking applications in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-30 Lorenzo Piccolo , Sandro Cadeddu , Luca Frontini , Adriano Lai , Valentino Liberali , Angelo Rivetti , Alberto Stabile

Results on beam tests of 3D silicon pixel sensors aimed at the ATLAS Insertable-B-Layer and High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)) upgrades are presented. Measurements include charge collection, tracking efficiency and charge sharing between pixel…

For the advancement of the understanding of timing systematics in pixelized readout chips and for the benefit of future fast timing detectors to aid 4D tracking technology in the HL-LHC, we have performed detailed studies of the timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-25 R. Geertsema

With the ultimate goal of developing a pixel-based readout for a TPC at the ILC, a GridPix readout system consisting of one Timepix3 chip with an integrated amplification grid was embedded in a prototype detector. The performance was…

PARISROC is a complete read out chip, in AMS SiGe 0.35 micron technology [1], for photomultipliers array. It allows triggerless acquisition for next generation neutrino experiments and it belongs to an R&D program funded by the French…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-11 S. Conforti Di Lorenzo , J. E. Campagne , F. Dulucq , C. De La Taille , G. Martin-Chassard , M. El Berni , W. Wei

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope is a silicon pixel detector dedicated to luminosity measurement at the CMS experiment at the LHC. It is located approximately 1.75 m from the interaction point and arranged into 16 "telescopes", with eight…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-02 Paul Lujan

A GridPix readout for a TPC based on the Timepix3 chip is developed for future applications at a linear collider. The GridPix detector consists of a gaseous drift volume read out by a single Timepix3 chip with an integrated amplification…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-23 C. Ligtenberg , K. Heijhoff , Y. Bilevych , K. Desch , H. van der Graaf , F. Hartjes , J. Kaminski , P. M. Kluit , G. Raven , T. Schiffer , J. Timmermans

A high-granularity telescope system with a large sensitive area and low material budget has been developed for high-energy heavy ion beam tests. The telescope consists of nine layers of silicon microstrip detectors (SSDs), whose performance…

This paper details preliminary photon measurements with the monolithic silicon detector ATLASPix, a pixel detector built and optimized for the CERN experiment ATLAS. The goal of this paper is to determine the promise of pixelated silicon in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Isabella Brewer , Regina Caputo , Michela Negro , Richard Leys , Carolyn Kierans , Ivan Peric , Jessica Metcalfe , Jeremy Perkins

Significant progress has been made to develop silicon pixel technologies for use in the vertex and tracker regions of the proposed Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) detector design. The electron-positron collisions generated by this linear…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Morag Williams

The hybrid architecture of the Timepix (TPX) family of detectors enables the use of different semiconductor sensors, most commonly silicon (Si), as well as high-density materials such as Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) or Gallium Arsenide (GaAs).…