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The design, construction and performance characteristics of a simple axial-field ionization chamber suitable for identifying ions in a radioactive beam are presented. Optimized for use with low-energy radioactive beams (< 5 MeV/A) the…

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A novel graphene-optimized silicon carbide PIN detector was fabricated. Its electrical properties, charge collection performance and signal rise time were evaluated under non-irradiated conditions and under X-ray irradiation with an energy…

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The response of Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs), a type of thin silicon detector with internal gain, to X-rays of energies between 6-16~keV was characterized at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL). The utilized beamline…

Silicon carbide detectors exhibit good detection performance and are being considered for detection applications. However, the presence of surface electrode of detector limits the application of low-penetration particle detectors,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-29 Zhenyu Jiang , Xuemei Lu , Congcong Wang , Yingjie Huang , Xiaoshen Kang , Suyu Xiao , Xiyuan Zhang , Xin Shi

We propose the use of silicon carbide (SiC) for direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter. SiC has properties similar to both silicon and diamond, but has two key advantages: (i) it is a polar semiconductor which allows sensitivity to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Sinéad M. Griffin , Yonit Hochberg , Katherine Inzani , Noah Kurinsky , Tongyan Lin , To Chin Yu

Influence of the prolonged irradiation by fission products of 252Cf radionuclide on the operational parameters of silicon-lithium Si(Li) p-i-n detectors, Si surface barrier detectors and Si planar p+n detector was investigated. The obtained…

Silicon Photomultipliers with cell-pitch ranging from 12 $\mu$m to 20 $\mu$m were tested against neutron irradiation at moderate fluences to study their performance for calorimetric applications. The photosensors were developed by FBK…

We present an innovative charge detector with high resolution and wide dynamic range designed to fulfill the requirements of a monitoring system for a high energy ion beam. The detector prototype, constructed using Si photodiodes and a…

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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 M. Arimoto , S. Harita , S. Sugita , Y. Yatsu , N. Kawai , H. Ikeda , H. Tomida , N. Isobe , S. Ueno , T. Mihara , M. Serino , T. Kohmura , T. Sakamoto , A. Yoshida , H. Tsunemi , S. Hatori , K. Kume , T. Hasegawa

The response of Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs), which are a type of thin silicon detector with internal gain, to X-rays of energies between 6-70 keV was characterized at the SLAC light source (SSRL). The utilized beamline at SSRL was…

Synchrotron radiation with the characteristic of high brilliance, high level of polarization, high collimation, low emittance and wide tunability in energy has been used as a standard source in metrology(1, 2). For a decade, lots of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-17 LI Hua-Peng , Kun Tang , Yi-Dong Zhao , Lei Zheng , Shu-Hu Liu , Xiao-Liang Zhao , Ya-Shuai Zhao

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

3D silicon pixel detectors have been investigated as radiation-hard candidates for the innermost layers of the HL-LHC upgrade of the ATLAS pixel detector. 3D detectors are already in use today in the ATLAS IBL and AFP experiments. These are…

A liquid isooctane (C$_{8}$H$_{18}$) filled ionization linear array for radiotherapy quality assurance has been designed, built and tested. The detector consists of 128 pixels, each of them with an area of 1.7 mm $\times$ 1.7 mm and a gap…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Pardo , L. Franco , F. Gomez , A. Iglesias , A. Pazos , J. Pena , R. Lobato , J. Mosquera , M. Pombar , J. Sendon

Within CERN RD50 Collaboration, MCz Si was identified as a best material for the detector used in the high luminosity collider experiments. The n in p Si detectors were utmost radiation hard detectors, which can be used for the phase 2…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-04 Anchal Sharma , Nitu Saini , Shilpa Patyal , Balwinder Kaur , Ajay K. Srivastava

This work presents an industrially scalable, power-efficient and high-performance quantum magnetometer chip based on proprietary 4H-silicon carbide (SiC) technology, leveraging wafer-scale fabrication techniques to optimize V2 silicon…

To meet high radiation challenge for detectors in future high-energy physics, a novel 3D 4H-SiC detector was investigated. SiC detectors could potentially operate in radiation harsh and room temperature environment because of its high…

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…

A high-performance Scintillator Ion Beam Monitor (SIBM) provides diagnostics across a range of isotopes, energies, and intensities employing a machine-vision camera with two novel scintillator targets movable into/out of the beam without…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-01 Daniel S Levin , Peter S. Friedman , Tom Ginter , Claudio Ferretti , Alexander Kaipainen , Nicholas Ristow

X-ray detectors made of crystalline silicon have several advantages including low dark currents, fast charge collection and high energy resolution. For high-energy x-rays, however, silicon suffers from its low atomic number, which might…

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