Speaker
Stefano Zambito
(CERN)
Description
The MONOLITH ERC Advanced project aims at producing a monolithic silicon pixel ASIC with picosecond-level time stamping by using fast SiGe BiCMOS electronics and a novel sensor concept, the Picosecond Avalanche Detector (PicoAD).
The PicoAD uses a multi-PN junction to engineer the electric field and produce a continuous gain layer deep in the sensor volume. The result is an ultra-fast current signal with low intrinsic jitter in a full fill factor highly granular monolithic detector.
A proof-of-concept ASIC prototype confirms that the PicoAD principle works according to simulations. Testbeam measurements show that the prototype is fully efficient and achieves time resolutions down to 18ps.
Primary authors
Antonio Picardi
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Chiara Magliocca
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Didier Ferrere
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Fulvio Martinelli
(EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
Giuseppe Iacobucci
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Holger Ruecker
(ihp-microelectronics)
Jihad Saidi
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Lorenzo Paolozzi
(CERN)
Magdalena Munker
(University of Geneva)
Marzio Nessi
(CERN)
Mateus Vicente Barreto Pinto
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Matteo Milanesio
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Pierpaolo Valerio
(CERN)
Rafaella Eleni Kotitsa
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Roberto Cardarelli
(INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
Roberto Cardella
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Sergio Gonzalez Sevilla
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Stefano Zambito
(CERN)
Theo Moretti
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Yana Gurimskaya
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
