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Studies of a single photon counting hybrid pixel detector for X-ray imaging applications are presented. A silicon- and a CdTe-sensor were bump bonded onto the MPEC pixel readout chip and could be successfully operated. A new USB based…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Fischer , M. Kouda , S. Krimmel , H. Krueger , M. Lindner , M. Loecker , G. Sato , T. Takahashi , S. Watanabe , N. Wermes

Hybrid silicon pixel detectors are currently used in the innermost tracking system of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. Radiation tolerance up to fluences expected for a few years of running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-07 Gemma Tinti

We introduce the fully-depleted charge-coupled device (CCD) as a particle detector. We demonstrate its low energy threshold operation, capable of detecting ionizing energy depositions in a single pixel down to 50 eVee. We present results of…

The Mu3e experiment is searching for the charged lepton flavour violating decay $ \mu^+\rightarrow e^+ e^- e^+ $, aiming for an ultimate sensitivity of one in $10^{16}$ decays. In an environment of up to $10^9$ muon decays per second the…

The Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), as the next-generation electron-positron collider, is tasked with advancing not only Higgs physics but also the discovery of new physics. Achieving these goals requires high-precision…

Active pixel sensors based on the High-Voltage CMOS technology are being investigated as a viable option for the future pixel tracker of the ATLAS experiment at the High-Luminosity LHC. This paper reports on the testbeam measurements…

The Low-Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) is a semiconductor detector capable of achieving excellent timing resolution (~20 ps) for minimum ionizing particles (MIPs). To realize a pixelated detector with both high timing precision and spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-02 Koji Nakamura , Yua Murayama , Issei Horikoshi , Mahiro Kobayashi , Koji Sato

The Skipper-in-CMOS image sensor integrates the non-destructive readout capability of Skipper Charge Coupled Devices (Skipper-CCDs) with the high conversion gain of a pinned photodiode in a CMOS imaging process, while taking advantage of…

We present the results of x-ray measurements on a hybrid CMOS detector that uses a H2RG ROIC and a unique bonding structure. The silicon absorber array has a 36{\mu}m pixel size, and the readout array has a pitch of 18{\mu}m; but only one…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Christopher V. Griffith , Stephen D. Bongiorno , David N. Burrows , Abraham D. Falcone , Zachary R. Prieskorn

AstroPix is a high-voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) monolithic active pixel sensor originally developed to enable precision gamma-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the medium-energy regime (approximately 100 keV-100 MeV) based on the groundwork laid by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Bobae Kim , Regina Caputo , Manoj Jadhav , Sylvester Joosten , Adrien Laviron , Richard Leys , Jessica Metcalfe , Nicolas Striebig , Daniel Violette , Maria Żurek

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a concept for a future linear collider that would provide e$^+$e$^-$ collisions at up to 3 TeV. The physics aims require a detector system with excellent jet energy and track momentum resolution, highly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-05 Florian Pitters

We present the first characterization results of Timespot1, an ASIC designed in CMOS 28 nm technology, featuring a $32 \times 32$ pixel matrix with a pitch of $55 ~ \mu m$. Timespot1 is the first small-size prototype, conceived to readout…

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

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

- Paper withdrawn by the author - CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors for charged particle tracking are considered as technology for numerous experiments in heavy ion and particle physics. To match the requirements for those applications…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-01 M. Deveaux , J. Baudot , A. Dorokhov , D. Doering , J. Heymes , M. Kachel , M. Koziel , B. Linnik , C. Müntz , J. Stroth

The high-luminosity upgrade of the CERN LHC requires the replacement of the CMS tracking detector to cope with the increased radiation fluence while maintaining its excellent performance. An extensive R\&D program, aiming at using 3D pixel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-16 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

The apparatus of the ALICE experiment at CERN will be upgraded in 2017/18 during the second long shutdown of the LHC (LS2). A major motivation for this upgrade is to extend the physics reach for charmed and beauty particles down to low…

We demonstrated a CMOS imaging system that adapts each pixel's exposure and sampling rate to capture high dynamic range (HDR) videos. The system consist of a custom designed image sensor with pixel-wise exposure configurability and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Jie , Zhang , Jonathan P. Newman , Xiao Wang , Chetan Singh Thakur , John Rattray , Ralph Etienne-Cummings , Matthew A. Wilson

The development of hybrid pixel detectors for particle detection with high spatial resolution in high energy physics experiments has spun off a number of developments with applications in imaging, especially biomedical imaging, and also…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-07 G. Chelkov , S. Abou El-Azm , U. Kruchonak , T. H. B. Phi , G. Lavrov , V. Rozhkov , R. Sotenskii , A. Lapkin

The performance of hybrid GaAs pixel detectors as X-ray imaging sensors were investigated at room temperature. These hybrids consist of 300 mu-m thick GaAs pixel detectors, flip-chip bonded to a CMOS Single Photon Counting Chip (PCC). This…