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Development Status of the KIPM Detector Consortium
Dylan J Temples, Zoë J. Smith, Selby Q Dang +21
A Kinetic Inductance Phonon-Mediated Detector is a calorimeter that uses kinetic inductance detectors to read out phonon signals from the device substrate. We have established a co…
Spontaneous generation of athermal phonon bursts within bulk silicon causing excess noise, low energy background events and quasiparticle poisoning in superconducting sensors
C. L. Chang, Y. -Y. Chang, M. Garcia-Sciveres +25
Solid state phonon detectors used in the search for dark matter and coherent neutrino nucleus interactions (CENS) require excellent energy resolution (eV-scale or below) and low…
Testing the limits of ITkPixV2: the ATLAS inner tracker pixel detector readout chip
Luc Le Pottier, Timon Heim, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres
The ITkPixV2 chip is the final production readout chip for the ATLAS Phase 2 Inner Tracker (ITk) upgrade at the upcoming High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). Due to the extraordinarily hi…
Design Studies Of A Pulsed Quasimonoenergetic 2-keV Neutron Source For Calibration Of Low Threshold Dark Matter Detectors
L. Chaplinsky, S. Fiorucci, C. W. Fink +25
We describe design studies for a pulsed quasi-monoenergetic 2-keV neutron source for calibration of sub-keV nuclear recoils. Such a calibration is required for detectors sensitive…
Low Energy Backgrounds and Excess Noise in a Two-Channel Low-Threshold Calorimeter
Robin Anthony-Petersen, Clarence L. Chang, Yen-Yung Chang +29
We describe observations of low energy excess (LEE) events, background events observed in all light dark matter direct detection calorimeters, and noise in a Transition Edge Sensor…
Dose rate dependence of TID damage to 65 nm CMOS transistors in X-ray irradiations of the ATLAS ITk Pixel ASIC (ITkPix)
Daniela Bortoletto, Aleksandra Dimitrievska, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres +5
The ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) requires a radiation-tolerant pixel readout chip, which must withstand a total ionising dose (TID) of up…
First Demonstration of the HeRALD Superfluid Helium Detector Concept
R. Anthony-Petersen, A. Biekert, C. L. Chang +33
The SPICE/HeRALD collaboration is performing R&D to enable studies of sub-GeV dark matter models using a variety of target materials. Here we report our recent progress on instrume…
Large active-area superconducting microwire detector array with single-photon sensitivity in the near-infrared
Jamie S. Luskin, Ekkehart Schmidt, Boris Korzh +16
Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) are the highest-performing technology for time-resolved single-photon counting from the UV to the near-infrared. The recen…
A portable and high intensity 24 keV neutron source based on Sb-Be photoneutrons and an iron filter
A. Biekert, C. Chang, L. Chaplinsky +27
A portable monoenergetic 24 keV neutron source based on the Sb-Be photoneutron reaction and an iron filter has been constructed and characterized. The coincidence of th…
A Stress Induced Source of Phonon Bursts and Quasiparticle Poisoning
Robin Anthony-Petersen, Andreas Biekert, Raymond Bunker +43
The performance of superconducting qubits is degraded by a poorly characterized set of energy sources breaking the Cooper pairs responsible for superconductivity, creating a condit…
Fast (optical) Links
M. Newcomer, J. Ye, A. Paramonov +2
In this write-up we focus on fast data links that read out particle detectors. This includes developments of ASICs, optical modules, identifying passive components such as fiber an…
Readout Technologies for Future Detectors
M. Begel, J. Eisch, M. Garcia-Sciveres +3
It is essential to develop novel cost-effective readout technologies to maximize the discovery potential of future HEP experiments.
A backing detector for order-keV neutrons
A. Biekert, L. Chaplinsky, C. W. Fink +23
We have designed and tested a large-area (0.15~m) neutron detector based on neutron capture on \ce{^{6}Li}. The neutron detector design has been optimized for the purpose of ta…
Scintillation yield from electronic and nuclear recoils in superfluid He
HeRALD Collaboration, A. Biekert, C. Chang +30
Superfluid He is a promising target material for direct detection of light ( 1 GeV) dark matter. Possible signal channels available for readout in this medium include prompt…
New Method for Silicon Sensor Charge Calibration Using Compton Scattering
Patrick McCormack, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, Timon Heim +2
In order to cope with increasing lifetime radiation damage expected at collider experiments, silicon sensors are becoming increasingly thin. To achieve adequate detection efficienc…
New Technologies for Discovery
Z. Ahmed, A. Apresyan, M. Artuso +80
For the field of high energy physics to continue to have a bright future, priority within the field must be given to investments in the development of both evolutionary and transfo…
Measured Effectiveness of Deep N-well Substrate Isolation in a 65nm Pixel Readout Chip Prototype
Peilian Liu, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, Timon Heim +2
The same charge sensitive preamplifier and discriminator circuit with different isolation strategies has been tested to compare the isolation of both analog and digital circuits fr…
Compact, directional neutron detectors capable of high-resolution nuclear recoil imaging
I. Jaegle, P. M. Lewis, M. Garcia-Sciveres +10
We report on the design, production, and performance of compact 40-cm Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) that detect fast neutrons by measuring the three-dimensional (3D) ionizati…
LArPix: Demonstration of low-power 3D pixelated charge readout for liquid argon time projection chambers
D. A. Dwyer, M. Garcia-Sciveres, D. Gnani +10
We report the demonstration of a low-power pixelated readout system designed for three-dimensional ionization charge detection and digital readout of liquid argon time projection c…
The Impact of Incorporating Shell-corrections to Energy Loss in Silicon
Fuyue Wang, Su Dong, Benjamin Nachman +2
Modern silicon tracking detectors based on hybrid or fully integrated CMOS technology are continuing to push to thinner sensors. The ionization energy loss fluctuation in very thin…
Ultimate position resolution of pixel clusters with binary readout for particle tracking
Fuyue Wang, Benjamin Nachman, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres
Silicon tracking detectors can record the charge in each channel (analog or digitized) or have only binary readout (hit or no hit). While there is significant literature on the pos…
Optimal use of Charge Information for the HL-LHC Pixel Detector Readout
Yitian Chen, Evan Frangipane, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres +4
The pixel detectors for the High Luminosity upgrades of the ATLAS and CMS detectors will preserve digitized charge information in spite of extremely high hit rates. Both circuit ph…
A review of advances in pixel detectors for experiments with high rate and radiation
Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, Norbert Wermes
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments ATLAS and CMS have established hybrid pixel detectors as the instrument of choice for particle tracking and vertexing in high rate and r…
Self-Adjusting Threshold Mechanism for Pixel Detectors
Timon Heim, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres
Readout chips of hybrid pixel detectors use a low power amplifier and threshold discrimination to process charge deposited in semiconductor sensors. Due to transistor mismatch each…