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The quadrant silicon detector, a kind of passivated implanted planar silicon detector with quadrant structure on the junction side, gained its wide application in charged particle detection. In this paper, the manufacturing procedure,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 Pengfei Bao , Chengjian Lin , Feng Yang , Zhaoqiao Guo , Tianshu Guo , Lei Yang , Lijie Sun , Huiming Jia , Xinxing Xu , Nanru Ma , Huanqiao Zhang , Zuhua Liu

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…

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

INTPIX4NA is an integration-type silicon-on-insulator pixel detector. This detector has a 14.1 x 8.7 mm^2 sensitive area, 425,984 (832 column x 512 row matrix) pixels and the pixel size is 17 x 17 um^2. This detector was developed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-30 R. Nishimura , S. Kishimoto , T. Sasaki , S. Mitsui , M. Shinya , Y. Arai , T. Miyoshi

In this work we describe a parallel geometry gaseous detector constituted by a thin (0.6 mm) amplifying gap preceded by a drift region. The gap is delimited by a metal plate and by a wire mesh. The detector can count up to a rate of 10^7…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Fonte , R. Ferreira-Marques , Y. Ivaniouchenkov , V. Peskov , A. Policarpo

The timing measurement of charged particles using silicon detector is widely used in synchrotron source as X-ray detectors, in time-of-flight mass spectrometer and especially in large collider experiment. To reduce the drastically event…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-01 Yuzhen Yang , Suyu Xiao , Yunyun Fan , Dejun Han , Zhijun Liang , Baohua Qi , Liaoshan Shi , Yuhang Tan , Xingan Zhang , Xin Shi

We report on a new photon-counting detector possessing unprecedented spatial resolution, moderate spectral resolution and high background-rejection capability for 0.1-100 keV X-rays. It consists of an X-ray charge-coupled device (CCD) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Miyata , K. Tamura

To meet the stringent time calibration requirements for the Belle II experiment upgrade, particularly for its large-size KL and Muon Detector comprising tens of thousands of scintillator channels with time resolutions better than 100 ps, we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-23 Ziyu Liu , Xiyang Wang , Shiming Zou , Xiaolong Wang , Junhao Yin , Minggang Zhao

Prototype of gamma ray detector based on Micro Pixel Avalanche Photodiodes (MAPD) with high pixel density 15000 pixel/$mm^2$, optically coupled to Lutetium Fine Silicate (LFS) scintillator has been developed. The detection performance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-02-11 E. Guliyev , F. Ahmadov , G. Ahmadov , A. Sadigov , Z. Sadigov , N. Anfimov , Z. Krumshtein , A. Olshevski , V. Shvetsov , V. Zhezher , R. Madatov

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

Fast timing detectors are an essential element in the experimental setup for time-of-flight (ToF) mass measurements of unstable nuclei. We have upgraded the scintillator detectors used in experiments at the National Superconducting…

A fast silicon-graphene hybrid plasmonic waveguide photodetectors beyond 1.55 {\mu}m is proposed and realized by introducing an ultra-thin wide silicon-on-insulator ridge core region with a narrow metal cap. With this novel design, the…

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…

Recently, a new detector concept, for combined imaging and spectroscopy of fast-neutrons and gamma was presented. It encompasses a liquid-xenon (LXe) converter-scintillator coupled to a UV-sensitive gaseous Thick Gas Electron Multiplier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 I. Israelashvili , M. Cortesi , D. Vartsky , L. Arazi , D. Bar , E. N. Caspi , A. Breskin

The MuPix Telescope is a particle tracking telescope, optimized for tracking low momentum particles and high rates. It is based on the novel High-Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (HV-MAPS), designed for the Mu3e tracking detector.…

This paper describes a novel idea of a fine-grained fully-active plastic scintillator detector made of many optically independent $1\times1\times1~\text{cm}^3$ cubes with readout on three orthogonal projections by wavelength shifting…

We have developed a prototype system for the ILC vertex detector based on DEPFET pixels. The system operates a 128x64 matrix (with ~35x25 square micron large pixels) and uses two dedicated microchips, the SWITCHER II chip for matrix…

We describe the work carried out at MPIK to design, model, build and characterize a prototype cell filled with a novel indium-loaded scintillator of interest for real-time low energy solar neutrino spectroscopy. First, light propagation in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-16 Dario Motta , Christian Buck , Francis Xavier Hartmann , Thierry Lasserre , Stefan Schönert , Ute Schwan

New scintillation counters have been designed and constructed for the CDF upgrade in order to complete the muon coverage of the central CDF detector, and to extend this coverage to larger pseudorapidity. A novel light collection technique…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Artikov , J. Budagov , G. Bellettini