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The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) together with the Pixel detector and the Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) form the central tracking system of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. It consists of single-sided microstrip silicon sensors, which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Vasiliki A. Mitsou

In the construction of High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) and Future Circular Collider (FCC) experiments, 3D pixel sensors have become indispensable components due to their superior radiation hardness, fast response, and low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-14 Huimin Ji , Zhihua Li , Wenzheng Cheng , Zheng Li , Kai Huang , Jing Wen , Song Liu , Manwen Liu , Jun Luo

Most of the time-of-flight systems as well as the fast interaction trigger detectors have large surfaces and the principal requirements for the above mentioned detectors is a good time resolution of the order 100-200ps. The easiest solution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-18 Varlen Grabski

Silicon sensors are the most diffuse position sensitive device in particle physics 8 experiments and in countless applications in science and technology. They had a spectacular progress in performance over almost 40 years since their first…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-04 Gianluigi Casse , Nicola Massari , Matthew Franksa , Luca Parmesana

After the successful installation and first operation of the upgraded Inner Tracking System (ITS2), which consists of about $10\,$m$^2$ of monolithic silicon pixel sensors, ALICE is pioneering the usage of bent, wafer-scale pixel sensors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-07 Alperen Yüncü

Detectors that can simultaneously provide fine time and spatial resolution have attracted wide-spread interest for applications in several fields such as high-energy and nuclear physics as well as in low-energy electron detection, photon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 Gabriele Giacomini , Wei Chen , Gabriele D'Amen , Alessandro Tricoli

The Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) is a fundamental part of the Inner Tracking System (ITS) for the ALICE experiment. Since the early phase of proton-proton collisions at LHC, the SSD is fully operational and participating in the charged…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Giacomo Contin

A new amplifier-shaper-discriminator (ASD) chip was designed and manufactured for the Micro Pixel Chamber ($\mu$-PIC). The design of this ASD IC is based on the ASD IC (TGC-ASD) for the Thin Gap Chamber in the LHC Atlas Experiment. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Orito , O. Sasaki , H. Kubo , K. Miuchi , T. Nagayoshi , Y. Okada , A. Takada , A. Takeda , T. Tanimori , M. Ueno

We developed a beam telescope system comprising five layers of 300-$\mu$m-thick INTPIX4NA monolithic pixel sensors with each pixel size of 17 $\mu$m square. The sensors were fabricated using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-24 Hisanori Suzuki , Takumi Omori , Kazuhiko Hara , Hiroki Yamauchi , Miho Yamada , Toru Tsuboyama , Ayaki Takeda

The development of Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors has opened up the possibility of manufacturing silicon detectors with signal larger than that of traditional sensors. In this paper we explore the timing performance of Low-Gain Avalanche…

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

For its physics program with a high-intensity hadron beam of up to 2e7 particles/s, the COMPASS experiment at CERN requires tracking of charged particles scattered by very small angles with respect to the incident beam direction. While good…

We present the design and performance characterization results of the novel Fermilab Constant Fraction Discriminator ASIC (FCFD) developed to readout low gain avalanche detector (LGAD) signals by directly using a constant fraction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-14 Si Xie , Artur Apresyan , Ryan Heller , Christopher Madrid , Irene Dutta , Aram Hayrapetyan , Sergey Los , Cristian Pena , Tom Zimmerman

Highly granular pixel detectors allow for increasingly precise measurements of charged particle tracks. Next-generation detectors require that pixel sizes will be further reduced, leading to unprecedented data rates exceeding those foreseen…

This work presents a suite of measurement techniques for characterizing the dielectric loss tangent across a wide frequency range from $\sim$1 GHz to 150 GHz using the same test chip. In the first method, we fit data from a microwave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Z. Pan , P. S. Barry , T. Cecil , C. Albert , A. N. Bender , C. L. Chang , R. Gualtieri , J. Hood , J. Li , J. Zhang , M. Lisovenko , V. Novosad , G. Wang , V. Yefremenko

We developed a 2-mm-thick CdTe double-sided strip detector (CdTe-DSD) with a 250 um strip pitch, which has high spatial resolution with a uniform large imaging area of 10 cm$^2$ and high energy resolution with high detection efficiency in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Takahiro Minami , Miho Katsuragawa , Shunsaku Nagasawa , Shin'ichiro Takeda , Shin Watanabe , Yutaka Tsuzuki , Tadayuki Takahashi

We achieve high detectivity terahertz sensing using a silicon nitride nanomechanical resonator functionalized with a metasurface absorber. High performances are achieved by striking a fine balance between the frequency stability of the…

A readout electronic with high time and energy resolution performance is designed for the SDD (Silicon Drift Detector) signals readout, which is aimed for X-ray pulsar based navigation (XNAV). For time measurement, the input signal is fed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-10 Er-Lei Chen , Chang-Qing Feng , Chun-Feng Ye , Shu-Bin Liu , Dong-Dong Jin , Jian Lian , Hui-Jun Hu