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The continued desire for X-ray pixel detectors with higher frame rates will stress the ability of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designers to provide sufficient off-chip bandwidth to reach continuous frame rates in the 1 MHz…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 Mike Hammer , Kazutomo Yoshii , Antonino Miceli

The integration of miniaturized optical spectrometers into mobile platforms will have an unprecedented impact on applications ranging from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to mobile phones. To address this demand, silicon photonics stands…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Mario C. M. M. Souza , Andrew Grieco , Newton C. Frateschi , Yeshaiahu Fainman

An eight chip InGrid module has been tested as readout of a prototype time projection chamber. The construction of the modules as well as first preliminary results are presented. The InGrids, a Micromegas like amplification structure with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-01-20 M. Lupberger

A new timing detector measuring ~50 MeV/c positrons is under development for the MEG II experiment, aiming at a time resolution $\sigma_t \sim 30~\mathrm{ps}$. The resolution is expected to be achieved by measuring each positron time with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-23 P. W. Cattaneo , M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , M. Nishimura , W. Ootani , M. Rossella , S. Shirabe , Y. Uchiyama

The present article introduces a novel ASIC architecture, designed in the context of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter upgrade program for the High-Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The architecture is based on…

We describe use of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) rf thermionic gun, alpha magnet beamline, and linac to produce a stable high-brightness beam in excess of 100 amperes peak current with normalized emittance of 10 pi mm-mrad. To obtain…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas Sereno , Michael Borland , Alex Lumpkin

The high-luminosity upgrade of the CERN LHC requires the replacement of the CMS tracking detector to cope with the increased radiation fluence while maintaining its excellent performance. An extensive R\&D program, aiming at using 3D pixel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-16 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

A new Digital Pulse Processing (DPP) system, based on domino ring sampler version 4 (DRS4), with good time resolution for the LaBr3 detectors has been developed and different digital timing analysis methods for processing the detector raw…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Cheng-Ming Du , Jin-Da Chen , Xiu-Ling Zhang , Hai-Bo Yang , Ke Cheng , Zheng-Guo Hu , Zhi-Yu Sun , Hu-Shan Xu

The accuracy of hadrontherapy treatment is currently limited by ion-range uncertainties. In order to fully exploit the potential of this technique, we propose the development of a novel system for online control of particle therapy, based…

Today, most X-ray pixel detectors used at light sources transmit raw pixel data off the detector ASIC. With the availability of more advanced ASIC technology nodes for scientific application, more digital functionality from the computing…

We characterize a new x-ray Mixed-Mode Pixel Array Detector (MM-PAD-2.1) Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Using an integrating pixel front-end with dynamic charge removal architecture, the MM-PAD-2.1 ASIC extends the maximum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-18 D. Gadkari , K. S. Shanks , H. Hu , H. T. Philipp , M. W. Tate , J. Thom-Levy , S. M. Gruner

Smarty is a fully-reconfigurable on-chip feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN) with ten integrated time-to-digital converters (TDCs) designed in a 16 nm FinFET CMOS technology node. The integration of TDCs together with an ANN aims…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Andrada Muntean , Yonatan Shoshan , Slava Yuzhaninov , Emanuele Ripiccini , Claudio Bruschini , Alexander Fish , Edoardo Charbon

MiniCACTUS-v2 is a monolithic sensor prototype designed in LF 150 nm CMOS process for time tagging of individual Minimum Ionizing Particles with an accuracy better than 100 ps. The sensing element is a deep n-well/p-substrate diode without…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-24 Y. Degerli , R. Aleksan , R. Casanova , Y. Gan , S. Grinstein , F. Guilloux , A. Hanlon , T. Hemperek , J. P. Meyer , J. Pinol , P. Schwemling , E. Vilella

We present a smart pixel prototype readout integrated circuit (ROIC) designed in CMOS 28 nm bulk process, with in-pixel implementation of an artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) based data filtering algorithm designed as…

XRPIX is the monolithic X-ray SOI (silicon-on-insulator) pixel detector, which has a time resolution better than 10 $\rm{\mu}$s as well as a high detection efficiency for X-rays above 10 keV. XRPIX is planned to be installed on future X-ray…

This paper describes a new method for optical readout of Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), based on the Linearly Graded Silicon Photomultiplier (LG-SiPM). This is a single photon-sensitive detector with excellent timing and 2D position…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-15 A. Gola , K. Majumdar , G. Casse , K. Mavrokoridis , S. Merzi , L. Parsons Franca

Silicon photomultipliers are increasingly replacing photomultiplier tubes in Cherenkov telescope cameras, but achieving single-photoelectron resolution with nanosecond timing in a low-noise, scalable detector system remains challenging. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Luca Giangrande , Matthieu Heller , Teresa Montaruli

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

An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), called RIGEL, designed for the sparse readout of a Silicon Pixel Drift Detector (PixDD) for space applications is presented.The low leakage current (less than 1 pA at +20 {\deg}C) and anode…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-09 Massimo Gandola , Marco Grassi , Filippo Mele , Irisa Dedolli , Piero Malcovati , Giuseppe Bertuccio

Advances in solid-state technology have enabled the development of silicon photomultiplier sensor arrays capable of sensing individual photons. Combined with high-frequency time-to-digital converters (TDCs), this technology opens up the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Ewout van den Berg , Emmanuel Candes , Garry Chinn , Craig Levin , Peter Olcott , Carlos Sing-Long