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The ATLAS Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project is a collaboration of 17 institutes and more than 80 scientists. Their goal is to explore the operation of planar pixel sensors for the tracker upgrade at the High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 Christian Gallrapp

The Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), a next-generation high-luminosity collider, employs a crab waist scheme to achieve ultrahigh $5 \times 10^{34} \, \text{cm}^{-2}\text{s}^{-1}$ luminosity at Higgs mode. Owing to the extremely…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-01 Yanpeng Li , Meng Li , Xingrui Wang , Weimin Song , Xiyuan Zhang , Congcong Wang , Suyu Xiao , Haoyu Shi , Dou Wang , Philip Bambade , Xin Shi

For the Inner Tracking System 3 (ITS3) upgrade, the ALICE experiment at CERN requires monolithic active pixel sensors of dimensions up to 97~mm$\,\times\,$266~mm, occupying a large fraction of a 300 mm wafer. To manufacture such a…

The continuing improvement in quantum efficiency (above 90% for single visible photons), reduction in noise (below 1 electron per pixel), and shrink in pixel pitch (less than 1 micron) motivate billion-pixel X-ray cameras (BiPC-X) based on…

Studies of a single photon counting hybrid pixel detector for X-ray imaging applications are presented. A silicon- and a CdTe-sensor were bump bonded onto the MPEC pixel readout chip and could be successfully operated. A new USB based…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Fischer , M. Kouda , S. Krimmel , H. Krueger , M. Lindner , M. Loecker , G. Sato , T. Takahashi , S. Watanabe , N. Wermes

Pixel vertex detectors are THE instrument of choice for the tracking of charged particles close to the interaction point at the LHC. Hybrid pixel detectors, in which sensor and read-out IC are separate entities, constitute the present state…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 Norbert Wermes

The calibration process for the hybrid array pixel detector designed for High Energy Photon Source in China, we called HEPS-BPIX, is presented in this paper. Based on the threshold scanning, the relationship between energy and threshold is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-01 Ye Ding , Zhenjie Li , Wei Wei , Jie Zhang , Hangxu Li , Yan Zhang , Xiaolu Ji , Peng Liu , Yuanbai Chen , Kejun Zhu

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will undergo an upgrade in order to increase its luminosity to $7.5 \times 10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. The increased luminosity during this High-Luminosity running phase (HL-LHC), starting around…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-04 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

Pixel detectors are used in the innermost part of multi purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and are therefore exposed to the highest fluences of ionising radiation, which in this part of the detectors consists mainly of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-21 T. Rohe , J. Acosta , A. Bean , S. Dambach , W. Erdmann , U. Langenegger , C. Martin , B. Meier , V. Radicci , J. Sibille , P. Trueb

The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) is a future Higgs factory proposed by the Chinese high energy physics community. It will operate at a center-of-mass energy of 240-250 GeV. The CEPC will accumulate an integrated luminosity of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-13 Zhenxing Chen , Ying Yang , Manqi Ruan , Dayong Wang , Gang Li , Shan Jin , Yong Ban

As a Higgs factory, The CEPC (Circular Electron-Positron Collider) project aims at the precise measurement of the Higgs boson properties. A baseline detector concept, APODIS (A PFA Oriented Detector for the HIggS factory), has been proposed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-27 Hang Zhao , Yong-Feng Zhu , Cheng-Dong Fu , Dan Yu , Man-Qi Ruan

AstroPix is a high-voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) monolithic active pixel sensor originally developed to enable precision gamma-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the medium-energy regime (approximately 100 keV-100 MeV) based on the groundwork laid by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Bobae Kim , Regina Caputo , Manoj Jadhav , Sylvester Joosten , Adrien Laviron , Richard Leys , Jessica Metcalfe , Nicolas Striebig , Daniel Violette , Maria Żurek

The Skipper-in-CMOS image sensor integrates the non-destructive readout capability of Skipper Charge Coupled Devices (Skipper-CCDs) with the high conversion gain of a pinned photodiode in a CMOS imaging process, while taking advantage of…

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

A large fraction of the results produced by the LHC experiments during the first run were made possible by precision vertexing detectors. The all-silicon tracking detector of the CMS experiment uses a pixel detector to do vertexing. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-19 Frank Meier

We report here the results of a mesh experiment to measure the subpixel structure of the EPIC MOS CCDs on board the XMM X-ray observatory. The pixel size is 40$\mu$m square while the mesh hole spacing is 48$\mu$m, a combination quite…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Tsunemi , K. Yoshita , A. D. Short , P. J. Bennie , M. J. L. Turner , A. F. Abbey

Micro-TPC, a time projection chamber(TPC) with micro pixel chamber($\mu$-PIC) readout was developed for the detection of the three-dimensional fine(sub-m illimeter) tracks of charged particles. We developed a two-dimensional position…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Kentaro Miuchi , Hidetoshi Kubo , Tsutomu Nagayoshi , Atsuhiko Ochi , Reiko Orito , Atsushi Takada , Toru Tanimori , Masaru Ueno

The pixel detector is the innermost tracking device in CMS, reconstructing interaction vertices and charged particle trajectories. The sensors located in the innermost layers of the pixel detector must be upgraded for the ten-fold increase…

A study of 3D pixel sensors of cell size 50 {\mu}m x 50 {\mu}m fabricated at IMB-CNM using double-sided n-on-p 3D technology is presented. Sensors were bump-bonded to the ROC4SENS readout chip. For the first time in such a small-pitch…

Some applications in scientific imaging, like space-based high-precision photometry, benefit from a detailed characterization of the sensitivity variation within a pixel. A detailed map of the intra-pixel sensitivity (IPS) allows to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Swaraj Bandhu Mahato , Joris De Ridder , Guy Meynants , Gert Raskin , Hans Van Winckel