Caribou is a versatile data acquisition system used in multiple collaborative frameworks (CERN EP R&D, DRD3, AIDAinnova, Tangerine) for laboratory and test-beam qualification of novel silicon pixel detector prototypes. The system is built around a common hardware, firmware and software stack shared across different projects, thereby drastically reducing the development effort and cost. It...
The qualification of new detectors in test beam environments presents a challenging setting that requires stable operation of diverse devices, often employing multiple data acquisition (DAQ) systems running on several machines in a local network. Changes to these setups are frequent, such as using different reference detectors depending on the facility. Managing this complexity necessitates a...
The transient current technique (TCT) has been a workhorse of detector characterization, allowing for the extraction of drift velocities, electric fields, space charge densities, and more. However, for very thin detectors ($\leq 50$ μm), the currently available readout electronics start to run into bandwidth limitations, as the charge carrier drift time becomes of the same order of magnitude...
4d tracking detectors for future experiments based on Resistive Silicon Detector technology will be exposed to high channel occupancy due to targeted low density of readout channels. To study the detector response to two nearly concurrent hits, we developed a new Transient Current Technique method (Double Beam TCT), where two focused pulsed laser beams can be controlled independently in space...
