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Monolithic CMOS pixel detectors have emerged as competitive contenders in the field of high-energy particle physics detectors. By utilizing commercial processes they offer high-volume production of such detectors. A series of prototypes has…

CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (CPS) are ultra-light and highly granular silicon pixel detectors suited for highly sensitive charged particle tracking. Being manufactured with cost efficient standard CMOS processes, CPS may integrate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 M. Deveaux

A prototype plastic scintillating fibre based beam profile monitor was tested at the Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre / \textit{Heidelberg Ionenstrahl Therapiezentrum} (HIT) in 2016 to determine its beam property reconstruction performance and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 B. D. Leverington , M. Dziewiecki , L. Renner , R. Runze

This study investigates the response of Timepix3 semiconductor pixel detectors in proton beams of varying intensities, with a focus on FLASH proton therapy. Using the Timepix3 ASIC chip, we measured the spatial and spectral characteristics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-02 C. Oancea , J. Šolc , C. Granja , E. Bodenstein , F. Horst , J. Pawelke , J. Jakubek

An upgrade of the ATLAS experiment for the High Luminosity phase of LHC is planned for 2024 and foresees the replacement of the present Inner Detector (ID) with a new Inner Tracker (ITk) completely made of silicon devices. Depleted active…

CMOS Pixel Sensors tend to become relevant for a growing spectrum of charged particle detection instruments. This comes mainly from their high granularity and low material budget. However, several potential applications require a higher…

With the development of high repetition rate laser sources and advanced multi-particle correlation analyses such as covariance mapping, particle detection techniques such as velocity map imaging (VMI) are poised to offer unprecedented views…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-06 Ian Gabalski , Eleanor Weckwerth , Chuan Cheng , Philip H. Bucksbaum

Pixel sensors based on commercial high-voltage CMOS processes are an exciting technology that is considered as an option for the outer layer of the ATLAS inner tracker upgrade at the High Luminosity LHC. Here, charged particles are detected…

The latest HV-CMOS pixel sensor developed by the former CERN-RD50-CMOS group, known as the \mpw, demonstrates competitive radiation tolerance, spatial granularity, and timing resolution -- key requirements for future high-energy physics…

Every radiotherapy center has to be equipped with real-time beam monitoring devices. In 2008, the medical application group from the Laboratory of Corpuscular Physics (LPC Caen) developed an Ionization Chamber in collaboration with the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Courtois , G. Boissonnat , C. Brusasco , J. Colin , D. Cussol , J. M. Fontbonne , B. Marchand , T. Mertens , S. De Neuter , J. Perronnel

Charged Particle Therapy is a technique for cancer treatment that exploits hadron beams, mostly protons and carbons. A critical issue is the monitoring of the dose released by the beam to the tumor and to the surrounding tissues. We present…

Hybrid pixel detectors have a well-established array of applications ranging from particle physics to life sciences. The small dimensions of Timepix3 as well as its relatively low energetic expenses make it an intriguing option additionally…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-10 Radu-Emanuel Mihai , Benedikt Bergmann , Petr Smolyanskiy

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…

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

The proposed Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) imposes new challenges for the vertex detector in terms of pixel size and material budget. A Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) prototype called TaichuPix, based on a column drain…

Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) have been developed since the late 1990s employing silicon substrate with a thin epitaxial layer in which deposited charge is collected by disordered diffusion rather than by drift in an electric…

AstroPix is a novel monolithic high-voltage CMOS active pixel sensor proposed for next generation medium-energy gamma-ray observatories like the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer (AMEGO-X). For AMEGO-X AstroPix must…

The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade requires the planned Inner Tracker (ITk) of the ATLAS detector to tolerate extremely high radiation doses. Specifically, the innermost parts of the pixel system will have to withstand radiation…

Within the ATTRACT FASTPIX project, a monolithic pixel sensor demonstrator chip has been developed in a modified 180 nm CMOS imaging process technology, targeting sub-nanosecond timing precision for single ionising particles. It features a…