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In view of the High Luminosity LHC, the current CMS tracking detector will have to be replaced during Long Shutdown 3 to cope with the higher radiation environment and to withstand an increased data rate. To prepare for the so-called CMS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-13 Giorgia Bonomelli

This paper reports results on a detailed study of charge collection and signal-to-noise performance of CMOS monolithic pixel sensors before and after back-thinning and their application in a pixel beam telescope for the ALS 1.5 GeV $e^-$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Battaglia , Devis Contarato , Piero Giubilato , Leo Greiner , Lindsay Glesener , Benjamin Hooberman

We present the development of a single-photon detector and the connected read-out electronics. This `hybrid' detector is based on a vacuum tube, transmission photocathode, microchannel plate and a pixelated CMOS read-out anode encapsulating…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-06 J. A. Alozy , N. V. Biesuz , M. Campbell , V. Cavallini , A. Cotta Ramusino , M. Fiorini , M. Guarise , X. Llopart Cudie

The TT-PET collaboration is developing an MRI-compatible small animal PET scanner in which the sensitive element is a monolithic silicon pixel ASIC targeting 30 ps RMS time resolution. The photon-detection technique is based on a stack of…

Dense tracking environments in experiments at CERN's High-Luminosity LHC and future FCC experiments call for an increased use of timing information in addition to the position measurement of pixel detectors. This adds one dimension to the…

For the Phase-II Upgrade of the ATLAS detector at CERN, the current ATLAS Inner Detector will be replaced with the ATLAS Inner Tracker. The ATLAS Inner Tracker will be an all-silicon detector, consisting of a pixel tracker and a strip…

The ATLAS experiment will undergo a major upgrade of the tracker system in view of the high luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) to start operation in 2026. The most severe challenges are to be faced by the innermost layers of the pixel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-06 Julien-Christopher Beyer , Alessandro La Rosa , Anna Macchiolo , Richard Nisius , Natascha Savic

CMOS detectors offer many advantages over CCDs for optical and UV astronomical applications, especially in space where high radiation tolerance is required. However, astronomical instruments are most often designed for low light-level…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Timothee Greffe , Roger Smith , Myles Sherman , Fiona Harrison , Hannah Earnshaw , Brian Grefenstette , John Hennessy , Shouleh Nikzad

We report on a large active area (15x15mm2), high channel density (470 pixels/mm2), self-triggering CMOS analog chip that we have developed as pixelized charge collecting electrode of a Micropattern Gas Detector. This device, which…

A new generation of Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS), produced in a 65 nm CMOS imaging process, promises higher densities of on-chip circuits and, for a given pixel size, more sophisticated in-pixel logic compared to larger feature…

Silicon-based waveguide plasmon detectors have a great research interest because of CMOS compatibility and integration capability with other plasmonic integrated circuits. In this paper, a balanced metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) integrated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Elahe Rastegar Pashaki , Hassan Kaatuzian , Abdolber Mallah Livani

TORCH is a novel time-of-flight detector that has been developed to provide charged-particle identification between 2 and 10 GeV/c momentum. TORCH combines arrival times from multiple Cherenkov photons produced within a 10 mm-thick quartz…

The ALICE collaboration is preparing an upgrade of the three innermost layers of the current Inner Tracking System (ITS) during the next LHC long shutdown (LS3). The new ITS detector will use wafer-scale (up to \SI{27}{cm} in length)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-29 Stefania Perciballi

Edge-TCT and charge collection measurements with passive test structures made in LFoundry 150 nm CMOS process on p-type substrate with initial resistivity of over 3 k$\Omega$cm are presented. Measurements were made before and after…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-01 I. Mandić , V. Cindro , A. Gorišek , B. Hiti , G. Kramberger , M. Zavrtanik , M. Mikuž , T. Hemperek

The requirements in quantum optics experiments for high single photon detection efficiency, low timing jitter, low dark count rate and short dead time have been fulfilled with the development of superconducting nanowire single photon…

The TORCH time-of-flight detector is designed to provide a 15 ps timing resolution for charged particles, resulting in $\pi$/$K$ particle identification up to 10 GeV/c momentum over a 10 m flight path. Cherenkov photons, produced in a…

We have developed a new laser-based time calibration system for highly segmented scintillator counters like the MEG II pixelated Timing Counter (pTC), consisting of 512-centimeter scale scintillator counters read out by silicon…

Pixel sensors using 8" CMOS processing technology have been designed and characterized offering the benefits of industrial sensor fabrication, including large wafers, high throughput and yield, as well as low cost. The pixel sensors are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 D. -L. Pohl , T. Hemperek , I. Caicedo , L. Gonella , F. Hügging , J. Janssen , H. Krüger , A. Macchiolo , N. Owtscharenko , L. Vigani , N. Wermes

Significant progress has been made to develop silicon pixel technologies for use in the vertex and tracker regions of the proposed Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) detector design. The electron-positron collisions generated by this linear…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Morag Williams

We evaluate the performances of a 100 um-thick silicon strip detector (SSD) with a 300 MeV proton beam and a 90Sr beta-ray source. Signals from the SSD have been read out using a VLSI chip. Common-mode noise, signal separation efficiency…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Hotta , M. Fujiwara , T. Kinashi , Y. Kuno , M. Kuss , T. Matsumura , T. Nakano , S. Sekikawa , H. Tajima