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The FASER experiment at the LHC aims to detect new, long-lived fundamental particles. A tungsten-silicon (W-Si) preshower detector is being developed to enhance the experiment's ability to distinguish between closely spaced photon pairs…

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For the new hadron collider LHC and some of its updates in luminosity and energy, as SLHC and VLHC, the silicon detectors could represent an important option, especially for the tracking system and calorimetry. The main goal of this paper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ionel Lazanu , Sorina Lazanu

We have performed an approximate ab initio calculation of vibrational properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) using a molecular dynamics method. A 216 atom model for pure amorphous silicon (a-Si) has been employed as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Serge M. Nakhmanson , D. A. Drabold

Vertex detectors at future hadron colliders will need to cope with large particle fluences. Diamond is a particularly radiation hard material and exhibits further properties that makes it an attractive material for such detectors. Within…

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This article reviews the progress made over the last 20 years in the development and applications of liquid xenon detectors in particle physics, astrophysics and medical imaging experiments. We begin with a summary of the fundamental…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-12-01 E. Aprile , T. Doke

Silicon detector technologies are often employed for high energy particle physics applications due to their excellent radiation hardness. Radiation damage in the form of bulk or substrate damage is dependent on the incident particle species…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-17 E. Liu , A. Chisholm , L. Gonella , A. Hunter

Few-layer molybdenum disulfide (FL-MoS$_2$) films have been integrated into amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) pin photodetectors. To achieve this, vertical a-Si:H photodiodes were grown by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PE-CVD) on top…

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…

Mercury-Sensitized Photo-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition (Hg-Photo-CVD) technique opens new possibilities for reducing thin film growth temperature and producing novel semiconductor materials suitable for the future generation of high…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Barhdadi , S. Karbal , N. Mgafad , A. Benmakhlouf , M. Chafik El Idrissi , B. M. Aka

The high-luminosity operation of the Tracker in the Compact Muon Solenid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment calls for the development of silicon-based sensors. This involves implementation of AC-coupling to…

Silicon Carbide (SiC) demonstrates significant potential for high-energy particle detection in complex radiation environments due to its exceptional radiation resistance, excellent environmental adaptability, and fast response time.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-04 Zaiyi. Li , Xiyuan. Zhang , Congcong. Wang , Haolan. Qu , Jiaxiang. Chen , Peilian. Liu , Suyu. Xiao , Xinbo. Zou , Hai. Lu , Xin. Shi

3D silicon detectors, in which the electrodes penetrate the sensor bulk perpendicular to the surface, have recently undergone a rapid development from R\&D over industrialisation to their first installation in a real high-energy-physics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-09 Jörn Lange

In this contribution, the correlation between fundamental interaction processes induced by radiation in silicon and observable effects which limit the use of silicon detectors in high energy physics experiments is investigated in the frame…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Sorina Lazanu , Ionel Lazanu

Intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon films can provide outstanding surface passivation of crystalline silicon wafer surfaces. This quality of Intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon makes it valuable in heterojunction with intrinsic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Rahul Goyal , Sachin Kumar

A new generation of 3D silicon pixel detectors with a small pixel size of 50$\times$50 and 25$\times$100 $\mu$m$^{2}$ is being developed for the HL-LHC tracker upgrades. The radiation hardness of such detectors was studied in beam tests…

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The detection of red/blue-shifted iron lines in the spectra of astronomical X-ray sources is of great importance, as it allows to trace the environment around compact objects, like black holes in AGNs. We report on extensive simulations to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-21 F. Tombesi , M. Cappi , G. Ponti , G. Malaguti , G. G. C. Palumbo

We have developed a new detector of photons and charged particles- a hole-type structure with electrodes made of a double layered resistive material: a thin low resistive layer coated with a layer having a much higher resistivity. One of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Charpak , P. Benaben , P. Breuil , A. Di Mauro , P. Martinengo , V. Peskov

A space-borne hard X-ray collimator, comprising 91 pairs of grids, has been developed for the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI). The HXI is one of the three scientific instruments onboard the first Chinese solar mission: the Advanced Space-based…

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The silicon systems of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors are briefly described. The complexity and diversity of the projects are illustrated by highlighting for discussion different components of the silicon systems in each…

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