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Motivated by the stringent requirements of the Upstream Pixel (UP) tracker in the LHCb Upgrade II and the Inner Tracking detector (ITK) of the Circular Electron Positron Collider, the COFFEE series of pixel sensor chips have been developed…

A network of Timepix (TPX) devices installed in the ATLAS cavern measures the LHC luminosity as a function of time as a stand-alone system. The data were recorded from 13 TeV proton-proton collisions in 2015. Using two TPX devices, the…

Thin planar pixel modules are promising candidates to instrument the inner layers of the new ATLAS pixel detector for HL-LHC, thanks to the reduced contribution to the material budget and their high charge collection efficiency after…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-21 Anna Macchiolo , Richard Nisius , Natascha Savic , Stefano Terzo

A silicon 3D detector with a single cell of 50x50 um2 was produced and evaluated for timing applications. The measurements of time resolution were performed for 90Sr electrons with dedicated electronics used also for determining time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-26 G. Kramberger , V. Cindro , D. Flores , S. Hidalgo , B. Hiti , M. Manna , I. Mandić , M. Mikuž , D. Quirion , G. Pellegrini , M. Zavrtanik

Detector developments are currently enabling new capabilities in the field of transmission electron microscopy (TEM). We have investigated the limits of a hybrid pixel detector, Medipix3, to record dynamic, time varying, electron signals.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-17 Gary W. Paterson , Raymond J. Lamb , Rafael Ballabriga , Dima Maneuski , Val O'Shea , Damien McGrouther

The foreseen luminosity upgrade for the LHC (a factor of 5-10 more in peak luminosity by 2021) poses serious constraints on the technology for the ATLAS tracker in this High Luminosity era (HL-LHC). In fact, such luminosity increase leads…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-01 The ATLAS Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project , : , M. Bomben

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

The development of CMOS pixel sensors with column parallel read-out and integrated zero-suppression has resulted in a full size, nearly 1 Megapixel, prototype with ~100 \mu s read-out time. Its performances are quite close to the ILD vertex…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-07-16 Christine Hu-Guo , IPHC Collaboration , IRFU Collaboration

Three-dimensional (3D) pixel sensors are a promising technology for implementing the 4D-tracking paradigm in high-radiation environments. Despite their advantages in radiation tolerance, 3D pixel sensors exhibit non-uniform electric and…

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

We propose a novel fast track finding system capable of reconstructing four dimensional particle trajectories in real time using precise space and time information of the hits. Recent developments in silicon pixel detectors achieved 150 ps…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-31 Nicola Neri , Marco Petruzzo

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…

Within the ATTRACT FASTPIX project, a monolithic pixel sensor demonstrator chip has been developed in a modified 180 nm CMOS imaging process technology, targeting sub-nanosecond timing precision for single ionising particles. It features a…

During the High Luminosity phase of LHC, up to 200 proton-proton collisions per bunch crossing will bring severe challenges for event reconstruction. To mitigate pileup effects, an extended upgrade program of the CMS experiment is expected.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-23 Simona Palluotto

Time-of-flight three dimensional imaging is an important tool for many applications, such as object recognition and remote sensing. Unlike conventional imaging approach using pixelated detector array, single-pixel imaging based on projected…

Novel event-based electron detector platforms provide an avenue to extend the temporal resolution of electron microscopy into the ultrafast domain. Here, we characterize the timing accuracy of a detector based on a TimePix3 architecture…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-04 Alexander Schröder , Leon van Velzen , Maurits Kelder , Sascha Schäfer

The prospect of pileup induced backgrounds at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) has stimulated intense interest in technology for charged particle timing at high rates. In contrast to the role of timing for particle identification, which has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 Sebastian White

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 ATLAS experiment will undergo a major upgrade of the tracker system in view of the high luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) foreseen to start around 2025. Thin planar pixel modules are promising candidates to instrument the new pixel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 N. Savic , L. Bergbreiter , J. Breuer , A. La Rosa , A. Macchiolo , R. Nisius , S. Terzo

The hybrid architecture of the Timepix (TPX) family of detectors enables the use of different semiconductor sensors, most commonly silicon (Si), as well as high-density materials such as Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) or Gallium Arsenide (GaAs).…