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20182026
most citedRadiation resistant LGAD design

133 citations · 351 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

nucl-ex2026

ePIC Early Science Report

D. Abbott, N. Abdelrahman, S. Abhijit +781

This Early Science Report from the ePIC Collaboration outlines the compelling physics program achievable during the first years of operation of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), pri…

hep-ex2026

Building an AI-native Research Ecosystem for Experimental Particle Physics: A Community Vision

Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad, Alaa Abdelhamid, Haider Abidi +457

Experimental particle physics seeks to understand the universe by probing its fundamental particles and forces and exploring how they govern the large-scale processes that shape co…

physics.ins-det2025

Characterization of the first full-size production for ePIC TOF layers

M. Davis, G. Stage, A. Borjigin +13

Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are characterized by a fast rise time (500 ps) and extremely good time resolution (down to 17 ps). The intrinsic low granularity of LGADs and t…

hep-ex2025

European Strategy for Particle Physics Update -- PIONEER: a next generation rare pion decay experiment

PIONEER Collaboration, A. Adelmann, W. Altmannshofer +76

PIONEER is a rapidly developing effort aimed to perform a pristine test of lepton flavour universality (LFU) and of the unitarity of the first row of the CKM matrix by significantl…

physics.ins-det2025

Synchrotron light source focused X-ray detection with LGADs, AC-LGADs and TI-LGADs

A. Molnar, Y. Zhao, S. M. Mazza +13

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 Sync…

physics.ins-det2025

Performance of neutron and proton irradiated AC-LGAD sensors

G. Stage, A. Borjigin, J. Ding +17

Characterization of strip and pixel AC-LGAD devices with both laser TCT and probe station (IV/CV) will be shown on AC-LGADs irradiated with 1 MeV reactor neutrons at JSI/Ljubljana…

physics.ins-det2025

Measured gain suppression in FBK LGADs with different active thicknesses

J. Yang, S. Braun, Q. Buat +16

In recent years, the gain suppression mechanism has been studied for large localized charge deposits in Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs). LGADs are a thin silicon detector with…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Gain suppression study on LGADs at the CENPA tandem accelerator

S. Braun, Q. Buat, J. Ding +9

Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are a type of thin silicon detector with a highly doped gain layer that provides moderate internal signal amplification. One recent challenge i…

hep-ex2024

Long-Distance Signal Propagation in AC-LGAD

Casey Bishop, Ayan Das, Jane Ding +14

We investigate the signal propagation in AC-LGAD (aka RSD), which are LGAD with a common N+ layer and segmented AC-coupled readout contacts, by measuring response to IR laser TCT o…

physics.ins-det2024

First test beam measurement of the 4D resolution of an RSD 450 microns pitch pixel matrix connected to a FAST2 ASIC

L. Menzio, F. Siviero, R. Arcidiacono +13

This paper reports on the spatial and temporal resolutions of an RSD 450 microns pitch pixels array measured at the DESY test beam facility. RSDs, Resistive Silicon Detectors, also…

physics.ins-det2023

Synchrotron light source X-ray detection with Low-Gain Avalanche Diodes

S. M. Mazza, G. Saito, Y. Zhao +14

The response of Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs), which are a type of thin silicon detector with internal gain, to X-rays of energies between 6-70 keV was characterized at the SLA…

physics.ins-det2023

TCAD simulation of AC-LGADs

M. Nizam, K. W. Shin, S. M. Mazza +4

Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are thin silicon detectors with moderate internal signal amplification and time resolution as good as 17 ps for minimum ionizing particles. How…

physics.ins-det2022

Solid State Detectors and Tracking for Snowmass

A. Affolder, A. Apresyan, S. Worm +132

Tracking detectors are of vital importance for collider-based high energy physics (HEP) experiments. The primary purpose of tracking detectors is the precise reconstruction of char…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

First Test Results of the Trans-Impedance Amplifier Stage of the Ultra-fast HPSoC ASIC

C. Chock, K. Flood, L. Macchiarulo +16

We present the first results from the HPSoC ASIC designed for readout of Ultra-fast Silicon Detectors. The 4-channel ASIC manufactured in 65 nm CMOS by TSMC has been optimized for…

hep-ex2022

Experiments and Facilities for Accelerator-Based Dark Sector Searches

Philip Ilten, Nhan Tran, Patrick Achenbach +27

This paper provides an overview of experiments and facilities for accelerator-based dark matter searches as part of the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowma…

hep-ex2022

Integration and Packaging

S. Mazza, R. Lipton, R. Patti +1

Vertically integrated (3D) combinations of sensors and electronics provide the ability to fabricate small, fine pitch pixels with very small total capacitance monolithically integr…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

Electronics for Fast Timing

D. Braga, G. Carini, G. Deptuch +16

Picosecond-level timing will be an important component of the next generation of particle physics detectors. The ability to add a 4 dimension to our measurements will help a…

physics.ins-det2022

4-Dimensional Trackers

Doug Berry, Valentina Cairo, Angelo Dragone +14

4-dimensional (4D) trackers with ultra fast timing (10-30 ps) and very fine spatial resolution (O(few m)) represent a new avenue in the development of silicon trackers, enabling…

hep-ex2022★ 9 cited

Testing Lepton Flavor Universality and CKM Unitarity with Rare Pion Decays in the PIONEER experiment

PIONEER Collaboration, W. Altmannshofer, H. Binney +58

The physics motivation and the conceptual design of the PIONEER experiment, a next-generation rare pion decay experiment testing lepton flavor universality and CKM unitarity, are d…

hep-ex2022★ 14 cited

PIONEER: Studies of Rare Pion Decays

PIONEER Collaboration, W. Altmannshofer, H. Binney +58

A next-generation rare pion decay experiment, PIONEER, is strongly motivated by several inconsistencies between Standard Model (SM) predictions and data pointing towards the potent…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

Tuning of gain layer doping concentration and Carbon implantation effect on deep gain layer

S. M. Mazza, C. Gee, Y. Zhao +24

Next generation Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGAD) produced by Hamamatsu photonics (HPK) and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) were tested before and after irradiation with ~1MeV neutro…

physics.ins-det2021★ 18 cited

Optimization of the Gain Layer Design of Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors

Federico Siviero, Roberta Arcidiacono, Giacomo Borghi +17

In the past few years, the need of measuring accurately the spatial and temporal coordinates of the particles generated in high-energy physics experiments has spurred a strong R\&D…

physics.ins-det2021

Inter-pad dead regions of irradiated FBK Low Gain Avalanche Detectors

B. Darby, S. M. Mazza, F. McKinney-Martinez +22

Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are a type of thin silicon detector with a highly doped gain layer. LGADs manufactured by Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) were tested before and…

physics.ins-det2021

An LGAD-based full active target for the PIONEER experiment

Simone Michele Mazza

PIONEER is a next-generation experiment to measure the charged pion branching ratios to electrons vs muons $R_e/μ= \frac{Γ\left(π^+ \rightarrow e^+ ν(γ) \right)}{Γ\left(π^+ \righta…