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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

The ATLAS inner detector comprises three different sub-detectors: the pixel detector, the silicon strip tracker, and the transition-radiation drift-tube tracker. The Insertable $B$-Layer, a new innermost pixel layer, was installed during…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-12-08 ATLAS Collaboration

The LHC is expected to reach luminosities up to 3000fb-1 and the innermost layer of the ATLAS upgrade plans to cope with higher occupancy and to decrease the pixel size. 3D-Si sensors are a good candidate for the innermost layer of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 Marta Baselga , Giulio Pellegrini , David Quirion

For the construction of the ATLAS Inner Tracker strip detector, silicon strip sensor modules are glued directly onto carbon fibre support structures using a soft silicone gel. During tests at temperatures below \unit[-35]{$^{\circ}$C},…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-10 Haider Abidi , Vitaliy Fadeyev , Tim Jones , Akhil Kumar , Tom Lee , Luise Poley , Craig Sawyer , Giorgio Vallone , Sven Wonsak

The TT-PET collaboration is developing a PET scanner for small animals with 30 ps time-of-flight resolution and sub-millimetre 3D detection granularity. The sensitive element of the scanner is a monolithic silicon pixel detector based on…

Pixel detectors with cylindrical electrodes that penetrate the silicon substrate (so called 3D detectors) offer advantages over standard planar sensors in terms of radiation hardness, since the electrode distance is decoupled from the bulk…

3D silicon detectors are characterized by cylindrical electrodes perpendicular to the surface and penetrating into the bulk material in contrast to standard Si detectors with planar electrodes on its top and bottom. This geometry renders…

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) detector yields a huge sample of data from different sub-detectors. On-line data processing is applied to select and reduce the volume of the stored data. ALICE applies a multi-level hardware…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Ronchetti , F. Blanco , M. Figueredo , A. G. Knospe , L. Xaplanteris

ALICE is the experiment at the CERN LHC devoted to study heavy-ion collisions. An upgrade program of the ALICE detector is ongoing toward the LHC Run 3 starting in 2022 together with the upgrade of the data acquisition system and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 K. Yamakawa , A. Augustinus , G. Batigne , P. Chochula , M. Oya , S. Panebianco , O. Pinazza , K. Shigaki , R. Tieulent , Y. Yamaguchi

This paper presents experimental and simulation data to characterize the Ring Oscillators (RO) produced in 65-nm CMOS technology for the next promising generation of readout chips for the pixel detector in the Inner Tracker (ITk) at the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-22 Yahya Khwaira , Abdenour Lounis , Maurice Cohen-Solal , Mohsine Menouni , Pierre Barrillon , Denis Fougeron

The MALTA CMOS monolithic silicon pixel sensors has been developed in the Tower 180 nm CMOS imaging process. It includes an asynchronous readout scheme and complies with the ATLAS inner tracker requirements for the HL-LHC. Several 4-chip…

The innermost part of the tracking detector of the ATLAS experiment consists mainly of planar n$^+$-in-n silicon pixel sensors. During the phase-0 upgrade, the Insertable B-Layer (IBL) was installed closest to the beam pipe. Its pixels are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-21 A. Gisen , S. Altenheiner , C. Gößling , M. Grothe , R. Klingenberg , K. Kröninger , J. Lönker , M. Weers , T. Wittig , F. Wizemann

The ALICE experiment is equipped with a wide range of detectors providing excellent tracking and particle identification in the central region, as well as forward detectors with extended pseudorapidity coverage, which are well suited for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-24 Sergey Evdokimov

The ITk is a new silicon tracker for the ATLAS experiment designed to increase detector resolution, readout capacity, and radiation hardness, in preparation for the larger number of simultaneous proton-proton interactions at the High…

The semiconductor tracker is a silicon microstrip detector forming part of the inner tracking system of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The operation and performance of the semiconductor tracker during the first years of LHC running are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-19 ATLAS Collaboration

The CLIC Tracker Detector (CLICTD) is a monolithic pixel sensor featuring pixels of 30um x 37.5um and a small collection diode. The sensor is fabricated in a 180 nm CMOS imaging process, using two different pixel flavours: the first with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Katharina Dort

We report on the experimental study made on a successive prototype of High-Voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) ATLASPix2 sensor for the tracking detector application, developed with 180 nm feature size. These sensors are to qualify mainly the peripheral…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 D M S Sultan , S. Gonzalez-Sevilla , D. Ferrere , G. Iacobucci , E. Zaffaroni , W. Wong , M. Kiehn , and M. Benoit

The R&D activity presented is focused on the development of new modules for the upgrade of the ATLAS pixel system at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The performance after irradiation of n-in-p pixel sensors of different active thicknesses…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Macchiolo , L. Andricek , M. Ellenburg , H. G. Moser , R. Nisius , R. H. Richter , S. Terzo , P. Weigell

This paper describes the integration structures for the silicon strips tracker of the ATLAS detector proposed for the Phase-II upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), also referred to as High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). In this proposed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-02 Sergio Diez

The upgrade to the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider will pose unprecedented challenges to the tracking systems of all experiments. Recent advancement of active pixel detectors designed in CMOS processes provide attractive alternatives…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-13 T. Bisanz , J. Große-Knetter , A. Quadt , J. Rieger , J. Weingarten