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The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) continues to be engaged in research and development towards an ILC detector. The latest efforts at SCIPP are described, including those associated with the LSTFE front-end readout ASIC,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-01-19 J. Carman , S. Crosby , V. Fadeyev , R. Partridge , B. A. Schumm , N. Spencer , M. Wilder

A MHz frame rate X-ray area detector (LPD - Large Pixel Detector) is under development by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for the European XFEL. The detector will have 1 million pixels and allows analogue storage of 512 images taken at…

In order to achieve the driver function for several types of scientific CCD detector from E2V Co Ltd, and decreasing the size of electronics of CCD detector system, an Application-specified Integrated Circuit (ASIC) was designed. It…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-04 Jie Gao , Dong-xu Yang , Yi Feng , Guang-yu Zhang , Wen-qing Qu , Jian-min Wang , Hong-fei Zhang , Jian Wang

We present a readout chip prototype for future pixel detectors with timing capabilities. The prototype is intended for characterizing 4D pixel arrays with a pixel size of $100\times100~\mu \text{m}^2$, where the sensors are Low Gain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-15 Matias Senger , Lea Caminada , Benjamin Kilminster , Anna Macchiolo , Beat Meier , Stephan Wiederkehr

Low-Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) sensor is one of candidate sensors for the tracker at future hadron collider experiments. To use this sensor as a tracking detector, AC-LGAD sensor is being developed which has both timing and spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-23 Sayuka Kita , Koji Nakamura , Tomoka Imamura , Ikumi Goya , Kazuhiko Hara

AXIS, a Probe mission concept now in a Phase A study, will provide transformative studies of high-energy astrophysical phenomena thanks to its high-resolution X-ray spectral imaging. These capabilities are enabled by improvements to the…

The amount of data produced by highly granular silicon tracking detectors in high energy physics experiments poses a major challenge to readout systems. At high collision rates, e.g. at LHC experiments, only a small fraction of data can be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-29 Sebastian Dittmeier , André Schöning , Hans Kristian Soltveit , Dirk Wiedner

We report recent results on the use of charge division to obtain a longitudinal coordinate from silicon strip detectors, and on sources of electronic readout noise for long, thin strips. These results hold promise for the design of Linear…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-18 Jerome Carman , Kelsey Collier , Sean Crosby , Vitaliy Fadeyev , Bruce A. Schumm , Ned Spencer

The Skipper CCD-in-CMOS Parallel Read-Out Circuit (SPROCKET) is a mixed-signal front-end design for the readout of Skipper CCD-in-CMOS image sensors. SPROCKET is fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process and each pixel occupies a 50$\mu$m $\times$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-09 Adam Quinn , Manuel B. Valentin , Thomas Zimmerman , Davide Braga , Seda Memik , Farah Fahim

We present a description of the design process, prototyping and production of the hybrid circuits for the front-end electronics of the Upstream Tracker at LHCb. The multilayer polyamide-based printed circuit boards, or hybrids, are designed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-03 M. Citterio , N. Conti , F. De Benedetti , P. Gandini , A. Merli , N. Neri , M. Petruzzo , E. Spadaro Norella

The physics aims at the proposed future CLIC high-energy linear $e^+ e^-$ collider pose challenging demands on the performance of the detector system. In particular the vertex and tracking detectors have to combine precision measurements…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Mathieu Benoit

The aim of this study is to design and evaluate a simple free running Analog-Digital Converter (ADC) based on the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device to accomplish the energy and position readout of the silicon photomultiplier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-19 Cong Ma , Xue Dong , Li Yu , Wubin Wang , Xiaokun Zhao , Xing Li , Zhenqing Huang , Guocheng Wu , Lei Lu , Hansheng Chen

The planned HL-LHC (High Luminosity LHC) in 2025 is being designed to maximise the physics potential through a sizable increase in the luminosity up to 6*10^34 cm^-2 s^-1. A consequence of this increased luminosity is the expected radiation…

We present an R&D activity focused on the development of novel modules for the upgrade of the ATLAS pixel system at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The modules consist of n-in-p pixel sensors, 100 or 200 $\mu$m thick, produced at VTT…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Macchiolo , L. Andricek , H. -G. Moser , R. Nisius , R. H. Richter , S. Terzo , P. Weigell

We present the first single-input multiple-output (SIMO) receiver ASIC that jointly performs jammer mitigation, channel estimation, and data detection. The ASIC implements a recent algorithm called siMultaneous mitigAtion, Estimation, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jonas Elmiger , Fabian Stuber , Oscar Castañeda , Gian Marti , Christoph Studer

The STAR Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) completes the three layers of the Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) to make an inner tracking system located inside the Time Projection Chamber (TPC). This additional fourth layer provides two dimensional…

High-granularity calorimeters utilizing silicon pad sensors as main active material are being designed for the CMS endcap calorimeter upgrade and have been proposed for the electromagnetic calorimeters at CLIC, ILC and FCC-ee. The silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Pedro Dias de Almeida

We present the results of an extensive evaluation of strip and pixel AC-LGAD sensors tested with a 120 GeV proton beam, focusing on the influence of design parameters on the sensor temporal and spatial resolutions. Results show that…

Pixel sensors based on commercial high-voltage CMOS processes are an exciting technology that is considered as an option for the outer layer of the ATLAS inner tracker upgrade at the High Luminosity LHC. Here, charged particles are detected…

AXIS is a Probe-class mission concept that will provide high-throughput, high-spatial-resolution X-ray spectral imaging, enabling transformative studies of high-energy astrophysical phenomena. To take advantage of the advanced optics and…