Simulating intrinsically AC-coupled hybrid pixel detectors

Proton Irradiation on AC-coupled Silicon Microstrip Detectors

To test the radiation tolerance of full-size detectors, four large-area AC-coupled single-sided silicon microstrip detectors were fabricated. The detectors had a size of 6 cm×3.4 cm and were made out of a 300 μm thick, high-resistivity, n-type silicon, simulating the p-side of the double-sided silicon microstrip detectors being developed. The AC coupling layer had either a single layer of SiO2 ...

Pixel hybrid photon detectors for the LHCb-RICH system

The baseline option for the photon detectors of the LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) subsystem is the pixel hybrid photon detector (HPD) [1]. Commercially available pixel HPDs do not fully meet the LHCb RICH requirements, namely wide area coverage over 2.6 m, single photon sensitivity in the wavelength range of 200600 nm, channel size of 2.5 x 2.5 mm and a speed compatible with the LHC bunchc...

Characterisation of Hybrid Pixel Detectors with capacitive charge division

In order to fully exploit the physics potential of the future high energy ee linear collider, a Vertex Tracker providing high resolution track reconstruction is required. Hybrid pixel sensors are an attractive technology due to their fast read-out capabilities and radiation hardness. A novel pixel detector layout with interleaved cells between the readout nodes has been developed to improve the...

Spectroscopic Quantum Imaging Using Pixel-level Adcs in Semiconductor-based Hybrid Pixel Detectors

Design of Pixel-Level ADCs for Energy-Sensitive Hybrid Pixel Detectors

Single-photon counting hybrid pixel detectors have shown to be a valid alternative to other types of X-ray imaging devices due to their high sensitivity, low noise, linear behavior and wide dynamic range. One important advantage of these devices is the fact that detector and readout electronics are manufactured separately. This allows the use of industrial state-of-the-art CMOS processes to mak...