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The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade requires the planned Inner Tracker (ITk) of the ATLAS detector to tolerate extremely high radiation doses. Specifically, the innermost parts of the pixel system will have to withstand radiation…

In the past few years, the need of measuring accurately the spatial and temporal coordinates of the particles generated in high-energy physics experiments has spurred a strong R\&D in the field of silicon sensors. Within these research…

Future high-energy physics experiments require a paradigm shift in radiation detector design. In response to this challenge, resistive LGADs that combine Low Gain Avalanche Diode technology with resistive readout have been developed. The…

We are developing position sensitive silicon detectors (PSDs) which have an electrode at each of four corners so that incident position of a charged particle can be obtained with signal from the electrodes. It is expected that the position…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-28 Y. Uesugi , R. Mori , H. Yamashiro , T. Suehara , T. Yoshioka , K. Kawagoe

The design of a detector system comprised of four silicon sensors bump-bonded to Timepix4 ASICs is described together with its data acquisition system, operational infrastructure, and dedicated software. The spatial and temporal performance…

The Low-Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) is a new silicon detector and holds wide application prospects in particle physics experiments due to its excellent timing resolution. The LGAD with a pixel size of 1.3 mm $\times$ 1.3 mm was used to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-03 Weiyi Sun , Mengzhao Li , Tianyuan Zhang , Mei Zhao , Yunyun Fan , Shuqi Li , Yuan Feng , Xinhui Huang , Xuan Yang , Wei Wang , Zhijun Liang , Yuekun Heng

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

Detectors at future high energy colliders will face enormous technical challenges. Disentangling the unprecedented numbers of particles expected in each event will require highly granular silicon pixel detectors with billions of readout…

The DC-coupled Resistive Silicon Detectors (DCRSD) are the evolution of the AC-coupled RSD (RSD) design, both based on the Low-Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) technology. The DC-RSD design concept intends to address a few known issues present…

We present a readout chip prototype for future pixel detectors with timing capabilities. The prototype is intended for characterizing 4D pixel arrays with a pixel size of $100\times100~\mu \text{m}^2$, where the sensors are Low Gain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-15 Matias Senger , Lea Caminada , Benjamin Kilminster , Anna Macchiolo , Beat Meier , Stephan Wiederkehr

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 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

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC will replace its current inner tracker system for the HL-LHC era. 3D silicon pixel sensors are being considered as radiation-hard candidates for the innermost layers of the new fully silicon-based tracking…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 S. Terzo , M. Chmeissani , G. Giannini , S. Grinstein , M. Manna , G. Pellegrini , D. Quirion , D. Vazquez Furelos

A MHz frame rate X-ray area detector (LPD - Large Pixel Detector) is under development by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for the European XFEL. The detector will have 1 million pixels and allows analogue storage of 512 images taken at…

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

An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), called RIGEL, designed for the sparse readout of a Silicon Pixel Drift Detector (PixDD) for space applications is presented.The low leakage current (less than 1 pA at +20 {\deg}C) and anode…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-09 Massimo Gandola , Marco Grassi , Filippo Mele , Irisa Dedolli , Piero Malcovati , Giuseppe Bertuccio

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

A silicon microstrip detector (SSD) has been developed to have state of the art spatial resolution and a large sensitive area under stringent power constraints. The design incorporates three floating strips with their bias resistors…

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

Silicon carbide detectors exhibit good detection performance such as fast time resolution, high radiation tolerances, high breakdown voltage and low temperature sensitivity and have been studied for detection applications. Meanwhile,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 Suyu Xiao , Hui Liang , Congcong Wang , Zhenyu Jiang , Lin Zhu