English
Related papers

Related papers: Fast Timing With Silicon Carbide Low Gain Avalanch…

200 papers

In the extreme environments of high-luminosity colliders, traditional planar silicon sensors suffer severe radiation-induced performance degradation and fail to satisfy the stringent demands of high-precision tracking and high-speed timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-11 Huimin Ji , Manwen Liu , Kuo Ma , Chuan Liao , Yanwen Liu , Zheng Li , Zhihua Li , Jun Luo

Single-photon detection is an invaluable tool for many applications ranging from basic research to consumer electronics. In this respect, the Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) plays a key role in enabling a broad diffusion of these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-05 Angelo Gulinatti , Francesco Ceccarelli , Massimo Ghioni , Ivan Rech

Silicon carbide (SiC) recently emerged as a promising photonic and quantum material owing to its unique material properties. Here, we carry out an exploratory investigation of the electro-optic effect in high-quality-factor 4H-SiC…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-22 Ruixuan Wang , Jingwei Li , Lutong Cai , Qing Li

Silicon Carbide (SiC) has several advantageous properties compared to Silicon (Si) that make it an appealing detector material, such as a larger charge carrier saturation velocity, bandgap, and thermal conductivity. While the current…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-06 Philipp Gaggl , Jürgen Burin , Andreas Gsponer , Simon Emanuel Waid , Richard Thalmeier , Thomas Bergauer

We present a gated silicon single photon detector based on a commercially available avalanche photodiode. Our detector achieves a photon detection efficiency of 45\pm5% at 808 nm with 2x 10^-6 dark count per ns at -30V of excess bias and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Lunghi , E. Pomarico , C. Barreiro , D. Stucki , B. Sanguinetti , H. Zbinden

Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are n-on-p silicon sensors with an extra p-layer below the collection electrode which provides signal amplification. When the primary electrons reach the amplification region new electron-hole pairs are…

The increasing concentration of greenhouse gases, notably CH4 and CO2, has fueled global temperature increases, intensifying concerns regarding the prevailing climate crisis. Effectively monitoring these gases demands a detector spanning…

Synchrotron radiation light sources produce intense beam of X-ray with ultra-short pulse and nanosecond period. This of-fers the opportunities for the time resolution experiments. Achieving higher counting rate and faster arriving time is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-05 Zhen-jie Li , Qiu-ju Li , Peng Liu , Shan-feng Wang , Wei-wei Dong , Yang-fan Zhou

CVD diamond is an attractive material option for LHC vertex detectors because of its strong radiation-hardness causal to its large band gap and strong lattice. In particular, pixel detectors operating close to the interaction point profit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 Jieh-Wen Tsung , Miroslav Havranek , Fabian Hügging , Harris Kagan , Hans Krüger , Norbert Wermes

The bulk displacement damage in the detector, produces effects at the device level that limits the long time utilisation of detectors as position sensitive devices and thus the lifetime of detector systems. So, the prediction of time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Sorina Lazanu , Ionel Lazanu

In this paper I want to review the current status of development of multi-pixel silicon-based avalanche photo-diodes operated in Geiger mode, also known as Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM). Particular emphasis is given to the application of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-30 Erika Garutti

This paper presents the setup assembled to characterize and measure the spatial and timing resolutions of AC-coupled Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (AC-LGADs), using a 1060 nm laser source to deposit initial charges with a defined calibration…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-23 Danush Shekar , Shirsendu Nanda , Zhenyu Ye , Ryan Heller , Artur Apresyan

Fast timing detectors are an essential element in the experimental setup for time-of-flight (ToF) mass measurements of unstable nuclei. We have upgraded the scintillator detectors used in experiments at the National Superconducting…

High-resolution 3D tracking with sub-nanosecond timing is required for the detection of elementary particles, such as neutrinos. Conventional detectors, which utilize analog silicon photomultipliers, face challenges in balancing spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-24 Kodai Kaneyasu , Till Dieminger , Matthew Franks , Davide Sgalaberna , Claudio Bruschini , Edoardo Charbon

Silicon strip sensors have long been a reliable technology for particle detection. Here, we push the limits of silicon tracking detectors by targeting an unprecedentedly low material budget of 2%-7% $X_0$ in an 8-layer 4 m$^2$ detector…

Low-Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) sensor is one of candidate sensors for the tracker at future hadron collider experiments. To use this sensor as a tracking detector, AC-LGAD sensor is being developed which has both timing and spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-23 Sayuka Kita , Koji Nakamura , Tomoka Imamura , Ikumi Goya , Kazuhiko Hara

The extremely low dark current of silicon carbide (SiC) detectors, even after high-fluence irradiation, was utilized to develop a beam monitoring system for a wide range of particle rates, i.e., from the kHz to the GHz regime. The system is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-20 Simon Waid , Andreas Gsponer , Jürgen Maier , Philipp Gaggl , Richard Thalmeier , Thomas Bergauer

Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are characterized by a fast rise time (500 ps) and extremely good time resolution (down to 17 ps). The intrinsic low granularity of LGADs and the large power consumption of readout chips for precise…

Mainly due to their outstanding performance the position sensitive silicon detectors are widely used in the tracking systems of High Energy Physics experiments such as the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb at LHC, the world's largest particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-16 Timo Peltola

Recent interest in pile-up mitigation through fast timing at the HL-LHC has focused attention on technologies that now achieve minimum ionising particle (MIP) time resolution of 30 picoseconds or less. The constraints of technical maturity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-18 M. Centis Vignali , M. Gallinaro , B. Harrop , C. Lu , M. McClish , M. Moll , M. Newcomer , S. Otero Ugobono , S. White