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Ultra-Fast 4H-SiC AC-LGAD for 4D Tracking Applications
Tao Yang, Chengxi Yang, Ben J. Sekely +12
4H-SiC low gain avalanche detectors (LGADs) combine internal gain with the high carrier saturation drift velocity, thermal stability, and low leakage current of SiC. AC-coupled rea…
Impact of Gain Layer Doping Concentration on the Performance of 4H-SiC LGADs
Tao Yang, Ben J. Sekely, Yashas Satapathy +12
Gain layer doping concentration determines the electric field profile in a low gain avalanche detector (LGAD) and is therefore the primary design parameter. This work reports its i…
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…
First survey of centimeter-scale AC-LGAD strip sensors with a 120 GeV proton beam
Christopher Madrid, Ryan Heller, Claudio San Martín +12
We present the first beam test results with centimeter-scale AC-LGAD strip sensors, using the Fermilab Test Beam Facility and sensors manufactured by the Brookhaven National Labora…
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…
Signal formation and sharing in AC-LGADs using the ALTIROC 0 front-end chip
G. D'Amen, W. Chen, C. De La Taille +9
The development of detectors that provide high resolution in four dimensions has attracted wide-spread interest in the scientific community for applications in high-energy physics,…
Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO
G. Gallina, Y. Guan, F. Retiere +162
Liquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume,…
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors on CMOS technologies
Nicole Apadula, Whitney Armstrong, James Brau +37
Collider detectors have taken advantage of the resolution and accuracy of silicon detectors for at least four decades. Future colliders will need large areas of silicon sensors for…
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…
Development of a Xe calibration source for nEXO
B. G. Lenardo, C. A. Hardy, R. H. M. Tsang +125
We study a possible calibration technique for the nEXO experiment using a Xe electron capture source. nEXO is a next-generation search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($…
X-Ray Silicon Drift Detector-CMOS Front-End System with High Energy Resolution at Room Temperature
G. Bertuccio, M. Ahangarianabhari, C. Graziani +13
We present a spectroscopic system constituted by a Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) coupled to a CMOS charge sensitive preamplifier, named SIRIO, specifically designed to reach ultimat…
Characterization of BNL and HPK AC-LGAD sensors with a 120 GeV proton beam
Ryan Heller, Christopher Madrid, Artur Apresyan +15
We present measurements of AC-LGADs performed at the Fermilab's test beam facility using 120 GeV protons. We studied the performance of various strip and pad AC-LGAD sensors that w…
Reflectivity of VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers in Liquid Xenon
M. Wagenpfeil, T. Ziegler, J. Schneider +140
Silicon photomultipliers are regarded as a very promising technology for next-generation, cutting-edge detectors for low-background experiments in particle physics. This work prese…
A new approach to achieving high granularity for silicon diode detectors with impact ionization gain
S. Ayyoub, C. Gee, R. Islam +4
Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs) are thin (20-50 )silicon di ode sensors with modest internal gain (typically 5 to 50) and exceptional time resolution (17 to 50 ). Ho…
Event Reconstruction in a Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber with an Optically-Open Field Cage
T. Stiegler, S. Sangiorgio, J. P. Brodsky +148
nEXO is a proposed tonne-scale neutrinoless double beta decay () experiment using liquid (LXe) in a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to read out ionization and scin…
Beam test results of IHEP-NDL Low Gain Avalanche Detectors(LGAD)
S. Xiao, S. Alderweireldt, S. Ali +96
To meet the timing resolution requirement of up-coming High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), a new detector based on the Low-Gain Avalanche Detector(LGAD), High-Granularity Timing Detector…
Radiation Campaign of HPK Prototype LGAD sensors for the High-Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD)
X. Shi, M. K. Ayoub, J. Barreiro Guimarães da Costa +74
We report on the results of a radiation campaign with neutrons and protons of Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGAD) produced by Hamamatsu (HPK) as prototypes for the High-Granularity…
Layout and Performance of HPK Prototype LGAD Sensors for the High-Granularity Timing Detector
X. Yang, S. Alderweireldt, N. Atanov +76
The High-Granularity Timing Detector is a detector proposed for the ATLAS Phase II upgrade. The detector, based on the Low-Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD) technology will cover the…
Reflectance of Silicon Photomultipliers at Vacuum Ultraviolet Wavelengths
P. Lv, G. F. Cao, L. J. Wen +148
Characterization of the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) reflectance of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) is important for large-scale SiPM-based photodetector systems. We report the angula…
Measurements of electron transport in liquid and gas Xenon using a laser-driven photocathode
O. Njoya, T. Tsang, M. Tarka +153
Measurements of electron drift properties in liquid and gaseous xenon are reported. The electrons are generated by the photoelectric effect in a semi-transparent gold photocathode…
Reflectivity and PDE of VUV4 Hamamatsu SiPMs in Liquid Xenon
P. Nakarmi, I. Ostrovskiy, A. K. Soma +152
Understanding reflective properties of materials and photodetection efficiency (PDE) of photodetectors is important for optimizing energy resolution and sensitivity of the next gen…
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…
Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO
Z. Li, W. R. Cen, A. Robinson +150
nEXO is a proposed experiment to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay () of Xe in a tonne-scale liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC). The nEXO TPC wil…
Fabrication and performance of AC-coupled LGADs
Gabriele Giacomini, Wei Chen, Gabriele D'Amen +1
Detectors that can simultaneously provide fine time and spatial resolution have attracted wide-spread interest for applications in several fields such as high-energy and nuclear ph…