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Pixel Detectors, as the current technology of choice for the innermost vertex detection, have reached a stage at which large detectors have been built for the LHC experiments and a new era of developments, both for hybrid and for monolithic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-06-23 Norbert Wermes

Among the top priorities for high-energy astronomy in the coming decade are sensitive surveys in the hard X-ray/soft \gamma-ray (10-600 keV) and medium-energy \gamma-ray (0.2-80 MeV) bands. Historically, observations in the soft and medium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 Alexei Ulyanov , Lorraine Hanlon , Sheila McBreen , Suzanne Foley , David Byrne

The proposed Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) imposes new challenges for the vertex detector in terms of high resolution, low material, fast readout and low power. The Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) technology has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-21 T. Wu , S. Grinstein , R. Casanova , Y. Zhang , W. Wei , X. Wei , J. Dong , L. Zhang , X. Li , Z. Liang , J. Guimaraes da Costa , W. Lu , L. Li , J. Wang , R. Zheng , P. Yang , G. Huang

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

We report on a large active area (15x15mm2), high channel density (470 pixels/mm2), self-triggering CMOS analog chip that we have developed as pixelized charge collecting electrode of a Micropattern Gas Detector. This device, which…

In the last years, high-resolution time tagging has emerged as the tool to tackle the problem of high-track density in the detectors of the next generation of experiments at particle colliders. Time resolutions below 50ps and event average…

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…

The energy range between about 100 keV and 1 GeV is of interest for a vast class of astrophysical topics. In particular, (1) it is the missing ingredient for understanding extreme processes in the multi-messenger era; (2) it allows…

The ATLAS experiment, at the Large Hadron Collider, will incorporate discrete, high-resolution tracking sub-systems in the form of segmented silicon detectors with 40MHz radiation-hard readout electronics. In the region closest to the pp…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 John Richardson , representing the ATLAS Pixel Project

We have been developing monolithic active pixel sensors series, named "XRPIX," based on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) pixel technology, for future X-ray astronomical satellites. The XRPIX series offers high coincidence time resolution…

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…

This is part of a document, which is devoted to the developments of pixel detectors in the context of the International Linear Collider. From the early developments of the MIMOSAs to the proposed DotPix I recall some of the major…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-24 Nicolas Fourches , University Paris-Saclay

The Tangerine project aims to develop new state-of-the-art high-precision silicon detectors. Part of the project has the goal of developing a monolithic active pixel sensor using a novel 65 nm CMOS imaging process, with a small collection…

HEALPix -- the Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization -- has become a standard in high-energy and gravitational wave astronomy. Originally developed to improve the efficiency of all-sky Fourier analyses, it is now also utilized to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 I. Martinez-Castellanos , Leo P. Singer , E. Burns , D. Tak , Alyson Joens , Judith L. Racusin , Jeremy S. Perkins

In order to take full advantage of the U.S. Department of Energy's billion-dollar investments into the next-generation research infrastructure (e.g., exascale, light sources, colliders), advances are required not only in detector technology…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-24 Antonino Miceli , Kazutomo Yoshii , Ian T. Foster

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

While designed primarily for X-ray imaging applications, the Medipix3 ASIC can also be used for charged-particle tracking. In this work, results from a beam test at the CERN SPS with irradiated and non-irradiated sensors are presented and…

Allpix$^2$ is a versatile, open-source simulation framework for silicon pixel detectors. Its goal is to ease the implementation of detailed simulations for both single sensors and more complex setups with multiple detectors. While…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-05 Simon Spannagel , Paul Schütze

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…