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We report on the recent development of a versatile analog front-end compatible with a negative-ion $\mu$-TPC for a directional dark matter search as well as a dual-phase, next-generation $\mathcal{O}$(10~kt) liquid argon TPC to study…

We present measurements with a GEM based TPC prototypes and the TimePix CMOS ASIC as charge collecting anode. Tests with a small prototype were performed in a 5 GeV electron beam at DESY. Different GEM orientations and geometries were…

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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…

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A simple calculation of the temporal noise of an elementary pixel is made. The equivalent noise charge takes into consideration the series and parallel noise as a function of the observation time.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-12-18 Nicolas Fourches

This paper reports on the characterisation with Transient Current Technique measurements of the charge collection and depletion depth of a radiation-hard high-voltage CMOS pixel sensor produced at ams AG. Several substrate resistivities…

The next generation of collider experiments require tracking detectors with extreme performance capabilities in terms of spatial resolution (tens of $\mu \text{m}$), radiation hardness ($10^{17}~1~$MeV n$_{eq}/$cm$^2$) and timing resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-05 Gian Matteo Cossu , Adriano Lai

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory is in the R&D phase, in which the Water Cherenkov Detector Array is an important part. The signals of Photo-Multiplier Tubes would vary from single photo electron to 4000 photo electrons, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-09 Lei Zhao , Weihao Wu , Jianfeng Liu , Yu Liang , Jiajun Qin , Li Yu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

In this paper, the design and characterization of AC-LGAD sensors at the University of Science and Technology of China is introduced. The sensors are characterized with an infrared laser Transient Current Technique (TCT) system for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-16 Han Li , Xiao Yang , Kuo Ma , Hang Yang , Aonan Wang , De Zhang , Tianao Wang , Xiangxuan Zheng , Jiajin Ge , Yusheng Wu , Hao Liang , Yanwen Liu

Time-of-flight measurement is an important advancement in PET scanners to improve image reconstruction with a lower delivered radiation dose. This article describes the monolithic ASIC for the TT-PET project, a novel idea for a…

We report measurements of the transverse diffusion of electrons in P-10 gas (90% Ar, 10% CH4) in a laboratory-scale time projection chamber (TPC) utilizing a novel pixelated signal capture and digitization technique known as Q-Pix. The…

The ALICE collaboration is preparing an upgrade of the three innermost layers of the current Inner Tracking System (ITS) during the next LHC long shutdown (LS3). The new ITS detector will use wafer-scale (up to \SI{27}{cm} in length)…

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We present an R&D activity focused on the development of novel modules for the upgrade of the ATLAS pixel system at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The modules consist of n-in-p pixel sensors, 100 or 200 $\mu$m thick, produced at VTT…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Macchiolo , L. Andricek , H. -G. Moser , R. Nisius , R. H. Richter , S. Terzo , P. Weigell

SiGe BiCMOS technology can be used to produce ultra-fast, low-power silicon pixel sensors that provide state-of-the-art time resolution even without an internal gain mechanism. The development of such sensors requires the identification of…

Dynamic x-ray studies may reach temporal resolutions limited by only the x-ray pulse duration if the detector is fast enough to segregate synchrotron pulses. An analog integrating pixel array detector with in-pixel storage and temporal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-07-28 Lucas J. Koerner , Sol M. Gruner

Transition-edge sensors (TES) are photon-number resolving calorimetric spectrometers with near unit efficiency. Their recovery time, which is on the order of microseconds, limits the number resolving ability and timing accuracy in high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-21 Jianwei Lee , Lijiong Shen , Alessandro Cerè , Thomas Gerrits , Adriana E. Lita , Sae Woo Nam , Christian Kurtsiefer

An array of DEPFET pixels is one of several concepts to implement an active pixel sensor. Similar to PNCCD and SDD detectors, the typically 0.45 mm thick silicon sensor is fully depleted by the principle of sideward depletion. They have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Norbert Meidinger , Johannes Müller-Seidlitz

Previous gait phase detection as convolutional neural network (CNN) based classification task requires cumbersome manual setting of time delay or heavy overlapped sliding windows to accurately classify each phase under different test cases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jien-De Sui , Wei-Han Chen , Tzyy-Yuang Shiang , Tian-Sheuan Chang

The traditional characterization of charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) in charge-coupled devices (CCDs) can suffer from a number of deficiencies: CTI is often only calculated for a limited number of signal levels, CTI is calculated from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-13 Adam Snyder , Aaron Roodman

The goal of the TANGERINE project is to develop the next generation of monolithic silicon pixel detectors using a 65 nm CMOS imaging process, which offers a higher logic density and overall lower power consumption compared to previously…