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During LHC Long Shutdown 3, the ALICE experiment will replace the three innermost layers of its Inner Tracking System (ITS2) with a new vertex detector, the ITS3. This new detector will be assembled using wafer-scale, stitched Monolithic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-04 Michele Rignanese

This paper presents the design of a new monolithic Silicon-On-Insulator pixel sensor in $200~nm$ SOI CMOS technology. The main application of the proposed pixel detector is the spectroscopy, but it can also be used for the minimum ionizing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-07-06 Szymon Bugiel , Roma Dasgupta , Sebastian Glab , Marek Idzik , Jakub Moron , Piotr Julian Kapusta , Wojciech Kucewicz , Michal Turala

The two innermost layers of the ALICE inner tracking system are instrumented with silicon pixel detectors. Single chip assembly prototypes of the ALICE pixels have been tested in high energy particle beams at the CERN SPS. Detection…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Elia

The paper presents the design and measurement results of a transient waveform recording ASIC based on the Switched Capacitor Array (SCA) architecture. This 0.18 {\mu}m CMOS prototype device contains two channels and each channel employs a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-09 Jiajun Qin , Lei Zhao , Boyu Cheng , Han Chen , Yuxiang Guo , Shubin Liu , Qi An

The next-generation ALICE 3 experiment at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) requires detector technologies that combine fine spatial resolution, fast timing, and an extremely low material budget. This paper presents the design,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-07 Umberto Follo

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE experiment at CERN will undergo an upgrade during the LHC long shutdown 3, in which the three innermost tracking layers will be replaced. This upgrade, named the Inner Tracking System 3 (ITS3),…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-14 M. Buckland

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory is in the R&D phase, in which the Water Cherenkov Detector Array is an important part. The signals of Photo-Multiplier Tubes would vary from single photo electron to 4000 photo electrons, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-09 Lei Zhao , Weihao Wu , Jianfeng Liu , Yu Liang , Jiajun Qin , Li Yu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

PARISROC is a complete read out chip, in AMS SiGe 0.35 !m technology, for photomultipliers array. It allows triggerless acquisition for next generation neutrino experiments and it belongs to an R&D program funded by the French national…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-08-24 S. Conforti Di Lorenzo , J. E. Campagne , F. Dulucq , C. De La Taille , G. Martin-Chassard , M. El Berni , W. Wei

After the successful installation and first operation of the new 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 for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-13 Jory Sonneveld

CMOS pixel sensors with a small collection electrode combine the advantages of a small sensor capacitance with the advantages of a fully monolithic design. The small sensor capacitance results in a large ratio of signal-to-noise and a low…

Many years of research and development of High Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (HVMAPS) have culminated in the final design for the Mu3e pixel sensor. MuPix10 is a fully monolithic sensor with an active pixel matrix size of…

This work presents the design of BUSARD, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for the detection of ionizing particles. The ASIC is a monolithic active pixel sensor which has been fabricated in a High-Voltage…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-05 Fabricio Alcalde Bessia , José Lipovetzky , Ivan Perić

Aiming to measure the difference in arrival times of two coincident gamma-photons with an accuracy in the order of 200 ps, time-of-flight positron emission tomography systems commonly employ silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 Vanessa Nadig , David Schug , Bjoern Weissler , Volkmar Schulz

The MiniCactus sensors are demonstrator sensors designed in LFoundry LF15A 150 nm technology, intended to study the performance of non amplified High Voltage High Resistivity CMOS sensors for measurement of time of arrival of charged…

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…

The CLIC Tracker Detector (CLICTD) is a monolithic pixelated sensor chip produced in a $180$ nm imaging CMOS process built on a high-resistivity epitaxial layer. The chip, designed in the context of the CLIC tracking detector study,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-07 I. Kremastiotis , R. Ballabriga , K. Dort , N. Egidos , M. Munker

We are now developing new X-ray imaging system by using Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) Pixel Detectors. The SOI detector is a monolithic radiation imaging detector based on a 0.2um FD-SOI CMOS process. Special additional process steps are also…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-28 Ryutaro Nishimura , Yasuo Arai , Toshinobu Miyoshi , Keiichi Hirano , Shunji Kishimoto , Ryo Hashimoto

A characterisation of the Timepix4 pixel front-end with a strong focus on timing performance is presented. Externally generated test pulses were used to probe the per-pixel time-to-digital converter (TDC) and measure the time-bin sizes by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-13 K. Heijhoff , K. Akiba , R. Ballabriga , M. van Beuzekom , M. Campbell , A. P. Colijn , M. Fransen , R. Geertsema , V. Gromov , X. Llopart Cudie

The proposed Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) imposes new challenges for the vertex detector in terms of high resolution, low material, fast readout and low power. The Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) technology has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-21 T. Wu , S. Grinstein , R. Casanova , Y. Zhang , W. Wei , X. Wei , J. Dong , L. Zhang , X. Li , Z. Liang , J. Guimaraes da Costa , W. Lu , L. Li , J. Wang , R. Zheng , P. Yang , G. Huang