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There is growing interest in high-energy astrophysics community for the development of sensitive instruments in the hard X-ray energy extending to few hundred keV. This requires position sensitive detector modules with high efficiency in…

Integrated quantum photonics, which allows for the development and implementation of chip-scale devices, is recognized as a key enabling technology on the road towards scalable quantum networking schemes. However, many state-of-the-art…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-18 Salih Yanikgonul , Victor Leong , Jun Rong Ong , Ching Eng Png , Leonid Krivitsky

We present the design of a Faraday cup-like charged particle detector in a four quadrant configuration aimed at facilitating the alignment of low-intensity beams of exotic particles. The device is capable of assessing the current on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-13 Kilian Brenner , Michael Zimmermann , Maik Butterling , Andreas Wagner , Christoph Hugenschmidt , Francesco Guatieri

Calorimeters with silicon detectors have many unique features and are proposed for several world-leading experiments. We discuss the tests of the first three 18x18 cm$^2$ layers segmented into 1024 pixels of the technological prototype of…

The Low-Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) is a new silicon detector and holds wide application prospects in particle physics experiments due to its excellent timing resolution. The LGAD with a pixel size of 1.3 mm $\times$ 1.3 mm was used to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-03 Weiyi Sun , Mengzhao Li , Tianyuan Zhang , Mei Zhao , Yunyun Fan , Shuqi Li , Yuan Feng , Xinhui Huang , Xuan Yang , Wei Wang , Zhijun Liang , Yuekun Heng

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…

The TPC for the International Linear Collider (ILC) will need to measure about 200 track points with a transverse resolution close to 100 microns. The resolution goal is beyond the capability of the conventional proportional wire/cathode…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 M. S. Dixit , A. Rankin

CMOS Pixel Sensors tend to become relevant for a growing spectrum of charged particle detection instruments. This comes mainly from their high granularity and low material budget. However, several potential applications require a higher…

A silicon-tungsten (Si-W) sampling calorimeter, consisting of 19 alternate layers of silicon pad detectors (individual pad area of 1~cm$^2$) and tungsten absorbers (each of one radiation length), has been constructed for measurement of…

Characteristics improvement of photon/plasmon detectors have been the subject of several investigations in the area of plasmonic integrated circuits. Among different suggestions, Silicon-based Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) waveguides are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Elahe Rastegar Pashaki , Hassan Kaatuzian , Abdolber Mallah Livani

A CMOS pixel sensor, named Supix-1, is developed for a pixelated silicon tracker for the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) project. The sensor, consisted of nine sectors varying in pixel sizes, diode sizes and geometries, is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-24 Long Li , Liang Zhang , Jianing Dong , Jian Liu , Meng Wang

An improved method of energy calibration of position-sensitive silicon detector is presented. Instead of the parabolic function used in traditional method, a new function describing the relation of position and energy is introduced and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Mingdao Sun , Tianheng Huang , Zhong Liu , Bing Ding , Huabin Yang , Zhiyuan Zhang , Jianguo Wang , Long Ma , Lin Yu , Yongsheng Wang , Zaiguo Gan , Xiaohong Zhou

In the framework of the HL-LHC upgrade, the ATLAS experiment plans to introduce an all-silicon inner tracker to cope with the elevated occupancy. To investigate the suitability of pixel sensors using the proven planar technology for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Nellist

We present the development status of the SOIKID, a detector combining the SOI pixel detector and the superconducting detector KID (Kinetic Inductance Detector). The aim of the SOIKID is to measure X-ray photon energy with the resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-07-07 Hirokazu Ishino , Atsuko Kibayashi , Yosuke Kida , Yousuke Yamada

This report, Volume IV of the International Linear Collider Reference Design Report, describes the detectors which will record and measure the charged and neutral particles produced in the ILC's high energy e+e- collisions. The physics of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-12-17 Ties Behnke , Chris Damerell , John Jaros , Akya Myamoto

Silicon-based fast time detectors have been widely used in high energy physics, nuclear physics, space exploration and other fields in recent years. However, silicon detectors often require complex low-temperature systems when operating in…

In Charge Coupled Device (CCD) detectors the electrons excited upon absorption of a single x-ray photon quickly diffuse and generate charge-spots often larger than pixel dimensions. In the soft x-ray range this phenomenon drastically limits…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-08 Andrea Amorese , Greta Dellea , Lucio Braicovich , Giacomo Ghiringhelli

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a project of an electron-positron (e+e-) linear collider with the centre-of-mass energy of 200-500 GeV. Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) are one of the proposed silicon pixel detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-21 Lukasz Maczewski

Results of detailed simulations of the charge transfer inefficiency of a prototype CCD chip are reported. The effect of radiation damage in a particle detector operating at a future accelerator is studied by examining two electron trap…

Silicon pixel sensors manufactured using commercial CMOS processes are promising instruments for high-energy particle physics experiments due to their high yield and proven radiation hardness. As one of the essential factors for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-01 Sinuo Zhang , Ivan Caicedo , Tomasz Hemperek , Toko Hirono , Jochen Dingfelder