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Hybrid pixel detectors have been invented for the LHC to make tracking and vertexing possible at all in LHC's radiation intense environment. The LHC pixel detectors have meanwhile very successfully fulfilled their promises and R\&D for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-06 Norbert Wermes

The DESY digital silicon photomultiplier (dSiPM) is a monolithic detector based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) and features a fully digital readout. The dSiPM prototype was…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-06 Daniil Rastorguev , Inge Diehl , Karsten Hansen , Finn King , Stephan Lachnit , Simon Spannagel , Tomas Vanat , Gianpiero Vignola

LF-Monopix1 and TJ-Monopix1 are depleted monolithic active pixel sensors (DMAPS) in 150 nm LFoundry and 180 nm TowerJazz CMOS technologies respectively. They are designed for usage in high-rate and high-radiation environments such as the…

Fully Depleted Monolithic Active Pixels (FD-MAPS) represent a state-of-the-art detector technology and profit from a low material budget and cost for high energy physics experiments and other fields of research like medical imaging and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-17 Coralie Neubüser , Thomas Corradino , Gian-Franco Dalla Betta , Lorenzo De Cilladi , Lucio Pancheri

An upgrade of the ATLAS experiment for the High Luminosity phase of LHC is planned for 2024 and foresees the replacement of the present Inner Detector (ID) with a new Inner Tracker (ITk) completely made of silicon devices. Depleted active…

MiniCACTUS is a monolithic sensor prototype optimised for timing measurement of charged particles. It has been designed in a standard 150 nm CMOS process without dedicated amplification layer. It is intended as a demonstrator chip for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-18 Yavuz Degerli , Fabrice Guilloux , Tomasz Hemperek , Jean-Pierre Meyer , Philippe Schwemling

- Paper withdrawn by the author - CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors for charged particle tracking are considered as technology for numerous experiments in heavy ion and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 Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments ATLAS and CMS have established hybrid pixel detectors as the instrument of choice for particle tracking and vertexing in high rate and radiation environments, as they operate close to the LHC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 Maurice Garcia-Sciveres , Norbert Wermes

Recent advancements in particle physics demand pixel detectors that can withstand increased luminosity in the future collider experiments. In response, MALTA, a novel monolithic active pixel detector, has been developed with a cutting-edge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-05 Anusree Vijay , Prafulla Kumar Behera , Theertha Chembakan , Ganapati Dash

The MiniCactus sensors are demonstrator sensors designed in LFoundry LF15A 150 nm technology, intended to study the performance of non amplified High Voltage High Resistivity CMOS sensors for measurement of time of arrival of charged…

High-resolution 3D tracking with sub-nanosecond timing is required for the detection of elementary particles, such as neutrinos. Conventional detectors, which utilize analog silicon photomultipliers, face challenges in balancing spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-24 Kodai Kaneyasu , Till Dieminger , Matthew Franks , Davide Sgalaberna , Claudio Bruschini , Edoardo Charbon

The depleted CMOS sensors are emerging as one of the main candidate technologies for future tracking detectors in high luminosity colliders. Its capability of integrating the sensing diode into the CMOS wafer hosting the front-end…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-17 Ricardo Marco Hernandez

Monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS) produced in a 65 nm CMOS imaging technology are being investigated for applications in particle physics. The MAPS design has a small collection electrode characterized by an input capacitance of ~fF,…

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing an extensive Phase II upgrade program to prepare for the challenging conditions of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). A new timing layer is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-02 Irene Dutta

Monolithic active pixel sensors with depleted substrates present a promising option for pixel detectors in high-radiation environments. High-resistivity silicon substrates and high bias voltage capabilities in commercial CMOS technologies…

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are the state-of-the-art technology in single-photon detection with solid-state detectors. Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs), the key element of SiPMs, can now be manufactured in CMOS processes,…

MALTA2 is the latest full-scale prototype of the MALTA family of Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (DMAPS) produced in Tower Semiconductor 180 nm CMOS technology. In order to comply with the requirements of High Energy Physics (HEP)…

Pixel detectors for precise particle tracking in high energy physics have been developed to a level of maturity during the past decade. Three of the LHC detectors will use vertex detectors close to the interaction point based on the hybrid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert Wermes

A new generation of Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS), produced in a 65 nm CMOS imaging process, promises higher densities of on-chip circuits and, for a given pixel size, more sophisticated in-pixel logic compared to larger feature…