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The Low-Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) is a new silicon detector and holds wide application prospects in particle physics experiments due to its excellent timing resolution. The LGAD with a pixel size of 1.3 mm $\times$ 1.3 mm was used to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-03 Weiyi Sun , Mengzhao Li , Tianyuan Zhang , Mei Zhao , Yunyun Fan , Shuqi Li , Yuan Feng , Xinhui Huang , Xuan Yang , Wei Wang , Zhijun Liang , Yuekun Heng

We present the design and characterization of the first full chain precision timing prototype ASIC, named ETL Readout Chip version 1 (ETROC1) for the CMS MTD endcap timing layer (ETL) upgrade. The ETL utilizes Low Gain Avalanche Diode…

Two design innovations, low-gain avalanche (Low-Gain Avalance Diode, LGAD) and resistive read-out (Resistive Silicon Detector, RSD), have brought strong performance improvements to silicon sensors. Large signals, due to the added gain…

Device simulation plays a crucial role in complementing experimental device characterisation by enabling deeper understanding of internal physical processes. However, for simulations to be trusted, experimental validation is essential to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-13 Sebastian Pape , Michael Moll , Marcos Fernández García , Moritz Wiehe

This paper presents results that take a critical step toward proving 10 ps timing resolution's feasibility for particle identification in the TOPSiDE detector concept for the Electron-Ion Collider. Measurements of LGADs with a thickness of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-07 M. Jadhav , W. Armstrong , I. Cloet , S. Joosten , S. M. Mazza , J. Metcalfe , Z. -E. Meziani , H. F. -W. Sadrozinski , B. Schumm , A. Seiden

In this work we investigated a method to determine time walk in an active silicon pixel sensor prototype using Edge-TCT with infrared laser charge injection. Samples were investigated before and after neutron irradiation to 5e14 neq/cm2.…

Silicon carbide detectors exhibit good detection performance such as fast time resolution, high radiation tolerances, high breakdown voltage and low temperature sensitivity and have been studied for detection applications. Meanwhile,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 Suyu Xiao , Hui Liang , Congcong Wang , Zhenyu Jiang , Lin Zhu

The wide-bandgap semiconductor 4H-silicon carbide (4H-SiC) offers a compelling combination of radiation hardness, thermal stability, and high critical electric field for particle detection in harsh environments. To compensate for the…

We present the characterization of a readout Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer (ETL) of the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade with charge injection. The ASIC, named ETROC and developed in a 65 nm CMOS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-03 H. Sun , D. Gong , W. Zhang , C. Edwards , c G. Huang , X. Huang , C. Liu , T. Liu , T. Liu , J. Olsen , Q. Sun , J. Wu , J. Ye , L. Zhang

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project has been proposed for the survey and study of cosmic rays. In the LHAASO project, the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is one of major detectors for searching gamma ray…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 Weihao Wu , Lei Zhao , Yu Liang , Li Yu , Jianfeng Liu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

The Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs) are promising particle detectors for timing resolution better than $50$ ps under a high radiation environment. This study investigates n-in-p LGAD architecture, focusing on ultra-thin sensors of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-26 Jaideep Kalani , Saptarshi Datta , Ganesh J Tambve , Prabhakar Palni

For the first time we have fabricated a high granularity micropattern solid-state detector (MSSD) with the unipolar time-differential property for ultrafast pulse response. Optical, x-ray, and gamma-ray photoconductivity measurements prove…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-01-30 A. H. Goldan , O. Tousignant , J. A. Rowlands , K. S. Karim

The TPC for the International Linear Collider (ILC) will need to measure about 200 track points with a transverse resolution close to 100 microns. The resolution goal is beyond the capability of the conventional proportional wire/cathode…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 M. S. Dixit , A. Rankin

The SLAC mega-electron-volt (MeV) ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) instrument is a powerful "electron camera" for the study of time-resolved, ultrafast atomic & molecular dynamics in chemical and solid-state systems. The UED laser…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 L. Ma , X. Shen , K. Kim , D. Brown , M. D'Ewart , B. Hong , J. Olsen , S. Smith , D. Van Winkle , E. Williams , S. Weathersby , X. Wang , A. Young , J. Frisch

This paper presents a high-precision gravitational redshift test using the China Space Station (CSS) Laser Time Transfer (CLT) system. We develop a comprehensive observation equation based on a c^{-3} order relativistic model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Rui Xu , Wenbin Shen , Hok Sum Fok , Pengfei Zhang , Lihong Li , Lei Wang , Kuangchao Wu , An Ning , Youchao Xie , Ziyu Shen , Lingxuan Wang , Yongqi Zhao , Kai Liu , Yuanjin Pan

Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) is an imaging technique providing the distribution of permittivity in a medium by the mean of electrodes. As for any imaging systems, the reachable spatial resolution is a key parameter. In this paper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-05 Jérôme Lucas , Cédric Margo , Yacine Oussar , Stéphane Holé

Transient field-resolved spectroscopy enables studies of ultrafast dynamics in molecules, nanostructures, or solids with sub-cycle resolution, but previous work has so far concentrated on extracting the dielectric response at frequencies…

We present a readout chip prototype for future pixel detectors with timing capabilities. The prototype is intended for characterizing 4D pixel arrays with a pixel size of $100\times100~\mu \text{m}^2$, where the sensors are Low Gain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-15 Matias Senger , Lea Caminada , Benjamin Kilminster , Anna Macchiolo , Beat Meier , Stephan Wiederkehr

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…

A high momentum resolution is required for the precision measurement of Higgs boson at the International Linear Collider (ILC) using the recoil mass technique. The International Large Detector (ILD) is designed to meet this requirement by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-28 Yumi Aoki