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First Measurements on the Timespot1 ASIC: a Fast-Timing, High-Rate Pixel-Matrix Front-End

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

The On-Site Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be one of the largest ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray observatories. The On-Site Analysis will be the first CTA scientific analysis of data acquired from the array of telescopes,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrea Bulgarelli , Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Zoli , Alessio Aboudan , Juan José Rodríguez-Vázquez , Giovanni De Cesare , Adriano De Rosa , Gernot Maier , Etienne Lyard , Denis Bastieri , Saverio Lombardi , Gino Tosti , Sonia Bergamaschi , Domenico Beneventano , Giovanni Lamanna , Jean Jacquemier , Karl Kosack , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Catherine Boisson , Jerzy Borkowski , Sara Buson , Alessandro Carosi , Vito Conforti , Pep Colomé , Raquel de los Reyes , Jon Dumm , Phil Evans , Lucy Fortson , Matthias Fuessling , Diego Gotz , Ricardo Graciani , Fulvio Gianotti , Paola Grandi , Jim Hinton , Brian Humensky , Susumu Inoue , Jürgen Knödlseder , Thierry Le Flour , Rico Lindemann , Giuseppe Malaguti , Sera Markoff , Martino Marisaldi , Nadine Neyroud , Luciano Nicastro , Stefan Ohm , Julian Osborne , Igor Oya , Jerome Rodriguez , Simon Rosen , Marc Ribo , Alessandro Tacchini , Fabian Schüssler , Thierry Stolarczyk , Eleonora Torresi , Vincenzo Testa , Peter Wegner , Amanda Weinstein

Strategy Implementation for the CTA Atmospheric Monitoring Program

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation facility of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Doro , M. Daniel , R. de los Reyes , M. Gaug , M. C. Maccarone

The Fast Read-out System for the MAPMTs of COMPASS RICH-1

A fast readout system for the upgrade of the COMPASS RICH detector has been developed and successfully used for data taking in 2006 and 2007. The new readout system for the multi-anode PMTs in the central part of the photon detector of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Schill

Analogue Sum ASIC for L1 Trigger Decision in Cherenkov Telescope Cameras

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project aims to build the largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory based on an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The CTA will implement a multi-level trigger system to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-03 Joan Abel Barrio , Oscar Blanch , Joan Boix , Eric Delagnes , Carlos Delgado , Lluis Freixas Coromina , David Gascon , Fabrice Guilloux , Ruben Lopez Coto , Gustavo Martinez , Andreu Sanuy , Luis Angel Tejedor

Monte Carlo Performance Studies of Candidate Sites for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory with sensitivity in the energy range from 20 GeV to beyond 300 TeV. CTA is proposed to consist of two arrays of 40-100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Maier , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , F. Di Pierro , T. Hassan , T. Jogler , J. Hinton , A. Moralejo , M. Wood

Leakage Currents and Capacitances of Thick CZT Detectors

The quality of Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors is steadily improving. For state of the art detectors, readout noise is thus becoming an increasingly important factor for the overall energy resolution. In this contribution, we present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-01 Alfred Garson , Qiang Li , Ira V. Jung , Paul Dowkontt , Richard Bose , Garry Simburger , Henric Krawczynski

Development of a High Rate Front-end ASIC for X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction Applications

We developed a new front-end application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for the upgrade of the Maia x-ray microprobe. The ASIC instruments 32 configurable front-end channels that perform either positive or negative charge amplification,…

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Use of the Peak-Detector mode for gain calibration of SiPM sensors with ASIC CITIROC read-out

The Cherenkov Imaging Telescope Integrated Read Out Chip (CITIROC) is a 32-channel fully analogue front-end ASIC dedicated to the read-out of silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM) sensors that can be used in a variety of experiments with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 Domenico Impiombato , Alberto Segreto , Osvaldo Catalano , Salvatore Giarrusso , Teresa Mineo

A Sub-electron-noise Skipper-CCD Readout ASIC with Improved Channel-to-channel Isolation and an Integrated Cryogenic Voltage Reference

The MIDNA application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are a series of skipper-CCD readout chips fabricated in a 65 nm low-power CMOS process that implement a correlated double sampling signal processing chain based on dual-slope…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-20 Fabricio Alcalde Bessia , Claudio Chavez , Troy England , Hongzhi Sun , Andrew Lathrop , Davide Braga , Miguel Sofo-Haro , Juan Estrada , Farah Fahim

Layered water Cherenkov detector for the study of ultra high energy cosmic rays

We present a new design for the water Cherenkov detectors that are in use in various cosmic ray observatories. This novel design can provide a significant improvement in the independent measurement of the muonic and electromagnetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Antoine Letessier-Selvon , Pierre Billoir , Miguel Blanco , Ioana C. Maris , Mariangela Settimo

Raman LIDARs for the atmospheric calibration along the line-of-sight of CTA

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground based observatory for gamma ray astronomy at very high energies. Employing more than 100 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes in the northern and southern hemispheres, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-23 Otger Ballester , Oscar Blanch , Joan Boix , Johan Bregeon , Patrick Brun , Merve Colak , Michele Doro , Vania Da Deppo , Lluis Font , Omar Gabella , Rafael Garcia , Markus Gaug , Camilla Maggio , Manel Martinez , Oscar Martinez , Pere Munar Adrover , Raul Ramos , Stephane Rivoire , Samo Stanic , David Villar , George Vasileiadis , Longlong Wang , Marko Zavrtanik

Advances in photocathode development for PICOSEC Micromegas precise-timing detectors

The PICOSEC Micromegas detector is a precise-timing gaseous detector that combines a Cherenkov radiator, a semi-transparent photocathode and a Micromegas amplification stage, targeting time resolutions of tens of picoseconds for minimum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-21 M. Lisowska , F. Guerra , A. Gurpinar , D. Zavazieva , R. Aleksan , S. Aune , J. Bortfeldt , A. Breskin , F. M. Brunbauer , M. Brunold , J. Datta , G. Fanourakis , S. Ferry , K. J. Floethner , M. Gallinaro , F. Garcia , I. Giomataris , D. Janssens , E. Jelinkova , A. Kallitsopoulou , I. Karakoulias , M. Kovacic , P. Legou , J. Liu , M. Lupberger , D. J. G. Marques , Y. Meng , H. Muller , R. De Oliveira , E. Oliveri , T. Papaevangelou , M. Pomorski , L. Ropelewski , D. Sampsonidis , T. Schneider , B. Schoenfelder , E. Scorsone , M. van Stenis , Y. Tsipolitis , S. Tzamarias , A. Utrobicic , I. Vai , R. Veenhof , L. Viezzi , P. Vitulo , X. Wang , S. White , Z. Zhang , Y. Zhou

PICOSEC: Charged particle timing at sub-25 picosecond precision with a Micromegas based detector

The prospect of pileup induced backgrounds at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) has stimulated intense interest in developing technologies for charged particle detection with accurate timing at high rates. The required accuracy follows…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-26 J. Bortfeldt , F. Brunbauer , C. David , D. Desforge , G. Fanourakis , J. Franchi , M. Gallinaro , I. Giomataris , D. González-Díaz , T. Gustavsson , C. Guyot , F. J. Iguaz , M. Kebbiri , P. Legou , J. Liu , M. Lupberger , O. Maillard , I. Manthos , H. Müller , V. Niaouris , E. Oliveri , T. Papaevangelou , K. Paraschou , M. Pomorski , B. Qi , F. Resnati , L. Ropelewski , D. Sampsonidis , T. Schneider , P. Schwemling , L. Sohl , M. van Stenis , P. Thuiner , Y. Tsipolitis , S. E. Tzamarias , R. Veenhof , X. Wang , S. White , Z. Zhang , Y. Zhou

Measurement of Very-high-energy Diffuse Gamma-ray Emissions from the Galactic Plane with LHAASO-WCDA

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is a very important tool used to study the propagation and interaction of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. In this work, we report the measurements of the diffuse emission from the Galactic plane,…

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Exploiting VERITAS Timing Information

The 499 pixel photomultiplier cameras of the VERITAS gamma ray telescopes are instrumented with 500MHz sampling Flash ADCs. This paper describes a preliminary investigation of the best methods by which to exploit this information so as to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Holder

Multi-Amplifier Sensing Charge-coupled Devices for Next Generation Spectroscopy

We present characterization results and performance of a prototype Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor with 16 channels potentially suitable for faint object astronomical spectroscopy and low-signal,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Kenneth W. Lin , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Ana M. Botti , Javier Tiffenberg

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a large field of view, continuously operated, TeV gamma-ray experiment under construction at 4,100 m a.s.l. in Mexico. The HAWC observatory will have an order of magnitude better…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Miguel Mostafa

Signal Processing for Pico-second Resolution Timing Measurements

The development of large-area homogeneous photo-detectors with sub-millimeter path lengths for direct Cherenkov light and for secondary-electrons opens the possibility of large time-of-flight systems for relativistic particles with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-05 Jean-Francois Genat , Gary Varner , Fukun Tang , Henry Frisch

First results on SiSeRO (Single electron Sensitive Read Out) devices -- a new X-ray detector for scientific instrumentation

We present an evaluation of a novel on-chip charge detector, called the Single electron Sensitive Read Out (SiSeRO), for charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor applications. It uses a p-MOSFET transistor at the output stage with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 Tanmoy Chattopadhyay , Sven Herrmann , Barry Burke , Kevan Donlon , Gregory Prigozhin , R. Glenn Morris , Peter Orel , Michael Cooper , Andrew Malonis , Dan Wilkins , Vyshnavi Suntharalingam , Steven W. Allen , Marshall Bautz , Chris Leitz