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In this paper we present a novel, quadruple well process developed in a modern 0.18mu CMOS technology called INMAPS. On top of the standard process, we have added a deep P implant that can be used to form a deep P-well and provide screening…

The direct response of Silicon PhotoMultipliers being traversed by a MIP charged particle have been studied in a systematic way for the first time. Using beam test data, time resolution and the crosstalk probability have been measured. A…

In order to increase its discovery potential, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator will be upgraded in the next decade. The high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) period demands new sensor technologies to cope with increasing radiation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Vázquez Furelos , M. Carulla , E. Cavallaro , F. Förster , S. Grinstein , J. Lange , I. López Paz , M. Manna , G. Pellegrini , D. Quirion , S. Terzo

Monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS) are now well established as a technology for tracking charged particles, especially when low material budget is desirable. For such applications, sensors focus on spatial resolution and pixels with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-28 W. Ren , J. Baudot , L. Federici , C. Finck , C. Hu-Guo , M. Kachel , C. -A. Reidel , C. Schui , R. Sefri , E. Spiriti , U. Weber , Y. Zhao

Detectors based on pixels with timing capabilities are gaining increasing importance in the last years. Next-to-come high-energy physics experiments at colliders requires the use of time information in tracking, due to the increasing levels…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-25 Adriano Lai , Gian Matteo Cossu

CMOS sensors were successfully implemented in the STAR tracker [1]. LHC experiments have shown that efficient b tagging, reconstruction of displaced vertices and identification of disappearing tracks are necessary. An improved vertex…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-21 Nicolas T. Fourches , Geraldine Hallais , Charles Renard

MiniCACTUS-v2 is a monolithic sensor prototype designed in LF 150 nm CMOS process for time tagging of individual Minimum Ionizing Particles with an accuracy better than 100 ps. The sensing element is a deep n-well/p-substrate diode without…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-24 Y. Degerli , R. Aleksan , R. Casanova , Y. Gan , S. Grinstein , F. Guilloux , A. Hanlon , T. Hemperek , J. P. Meyer , J. Pinol , P. Schwemling , E. Vilella

The CERN RD50 collaboration develops depleted monolithic active pixel CMOS sensors for future colliders with the aim of high radiation tolerance, good time resolution, and high granularity pixel detectors. The most recent prototype, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-12 Jory Sonneveld

In view of the tracking detector application to the ATLAS High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade, we have developed a new generation of High Voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) monolithic pixel-sensor prototypes featuring the AMS aH18 (180 nm) commercial…

This paper presents the design and characterization of a monolithic integrated circuit (IC) including digital silicon photomultipliers (dSiPMs) arranged in a 32$~\times~$32 pixel matrix at 70$~\mu$m pitch. The IC provides per-quadrant time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-23 I. Diehl , K. Hansen , T. Vanat , G. Vignola , F. Feindt , D. Rastorguev , S. Spannagel

Detectors at future high energy colliders will face enormous technical challenges. Disentangling the unprecedented numbers of particles expected in each event will require highly granular silicon pixel detectors with billions of readout…

The next-generation ALICE 3 experiment at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) requires detector technologies that combine fine spatial resolution, fast timing, and an extremely low material budget. This paper presents the design,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-07 Umberto Follo

Future space-based X-ray telescope missions are likely to have significantly increased demands on detector read out rates due to increased collection area, and there will be a desire to minimize radiation damage in the interests of…

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

This paper presents the design and results of detailed tests of a CMOS active pixel chip for charged particle detection with in-pixel charge storage for correlated double sampling and readout in rolling shutter mode at frequencies up to 25…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-01-27 Marco Battaglia , Jean-Marie Bussat , Devis Contarato , Peter Denes , Piero Giubilato , Lindsay E. Glesener

Conventional silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are well established as light detectors with single-photon-detection capability and used throughout high energy physics, medical, and commercial applications. The possibility to produce single…

The radiation hardness of passive CMOS pixel sensors fabricated in 150 nm LFoundry technology is investigated. CMOS process lines are especially of interest for large-scale silicon detectors as they offer high production throughput at…

To address the challenges of providing high performance calorimetry in future hadron collider experiments under conditions of high luminosity and high radiation (FCChh environments), we are conducting R&D on advanced calorimetry techniques…

In planning for the Phase II upgrades of CMS and ATLAS major considerations are: 1)being able to deal with degradation of tracking and calorimetry up to the radiation doses to be expected with an integrated luminosity of 3000 $fb^{-1}$ and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-08 Sebastian White

This paper presents the design and results of detailed tests of a CMOS active pixel chip for charged particle detection with in-pixel charge storage for correlated double sampling and readout in rolling shutter mode at frequencies up to 25…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 Marco Battaglia , Jean-Marie Bussat , Devis Contarato , Peter Denes , Piero Giubilato , Lindsay E. Glesener

Active Pixel Sensor (APS) technology has shown promise for next-generation vertex detectors. This paper discusses the design and testing of two generations of APS chips. Both are arrays of 128 by 128 pixels, each 20 by 20 micro-m. Each…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 H. S. Matis , F. Bieser , S. Kleinfelder , G. Rai , F. Retiere , H. G. Ritter , K. Singh , S. E. Wurzel , H. Wieman , E. Yamamoto