Li Liang
(Director, Division of International Communication,XJTU)
26/09/2015, 08:30
Yoshinobu Unno
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
26/09/2015, 08:40
Simulations and Manufacturing
Qingmin Zhang
(XJTU)
26/09/2015, 08:50
Opening and Closing
Kazuhisa Yamamura
(Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.)
26/09/2015, 09:40
We have been developing various types of SSDs (Silicon Strip Detectors).
Hamamatsu SSDs has been used as tracking detector in many collider experiments [CELPHI, CDF, ZEUS, ATLAS, CMS, BELLE, etc.] and space experiments [ FGST(GLAST), AGILE, etc.].
For LHC, we have developed SSD which have high radiation tolerance and good quality of low bad channel rate. We delivered 15,500 SSDs to ATLAS...
Jaakko Harkonen
(Helsinki Institute of Physics)
26/09/2015, 10:10
In particle physics applications, the innermost pixel detectors will face in the future unprecedented requirements. Due to the increasing luminosity, the charge collection distance will be degraded to be less than physical segmentation of existing pixel devices resulting in poor particle tracking performance. Obvious approach to maintain sufficiently good spatial resolution is to increase the...
Giacomo Contin
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
26/09/2015, 10:30
The PiXeL detector (PXL) of the STAR experiment at RHIC is the first application of the state-of-the-art thin Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) technology in a collider environment. The PXL, together with the Intermediate Silicon Tracker (IST) and the Silicon Strip Detector (SSD), form the Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT), which has been designed to improve the vertex resolution and extend the...
Nicola Pacifico
(University of Bergen (NO))
26/09/2015, 11:20
The AEgIS experiment, at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator, aims at measuring the gravitational fall of antihydrogen using a cold, pulsed antihydrogen beam. In the last year a symbiotic antiproton beamline has been commissioned for performing detector tests with low energy antiproton beams. We will present here the latest results obtained on this beamline employing a Timepix3 hybrid module. The...
Hartmut Sadrozinski
(University of California,Santa Cruz (US))
26/09/2015, 11:40
We report on the status and expectation of the development of Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors (UFSD). UFSD are novel silicon sensors based on the Low-Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGAD) design and, due to internal gain, exhibit a signal which is a factor of ~ 10 larger than standard silicon detectors. The internal gain allows obtaining fast and large signals, a pre-requisite for time applications, and...
Giulio Pellegrini
(Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM-CSIC) (ES))
26/09/2015, 12:10
The objective of this work is the development of new position sensitive detectors with low signal amplification useful also for timing applications and called Low Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD). These new devices are based on the standard Avalanche Photo Diodes (APD) normally used for optical and X-ray detection applications.
We will present the two dimensional numerical simulation based on...
Simon Spannagel
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
26/09/2015, 14:20
Based on the strong performance of the LHC accelerator, it is anticipated that peak luminosities of two times the design luminosity of L = 2 x10^34 cm^-2s^-1 are likely to be reached before 2018 and probably significantly exceeded in the so-called Phase I period until 2022. At this higher luminosity and increased hit occupancies the current CMS pixel detector would be subject to severe dead...
Mr
Kameswara Rao Kodali
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
26/09/2015, 15:00
The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider in Japan is designed to indirectly probe new physics using approximately 50 times the data recorded by its predecessor (Belle). An accurate determination of the decay-point position of subatomic particles such as beauty and charm mesons as well as a precise measurement of low-momentum charged particles will play a key role in this pursuit....
Hans-Guenther Moser
(MPI fuer Physik)
26/09/2015, 15:50
BELLE II is an experiment in KEK (Tsukuba, Japan ) that will explore heavy flavour physics ( B, charm and tau ) from early 2018 with unprecedented precision. Charged particles are tracked by a two-layer DEPFET pixel device ( PXD ), a four-layer silicon strip detector ( SVD ) and the central drift chamber ( CDC ). The PXD will consist of two layers at radii of 14 mm and 22 mm with 8 and 12...
Branislav Ristic
(CERN/Universite de Geneve (CH))
26/09/2015, 16:10
Deep submicron HV-CMOS processes offer the opportunity for sensors built by industry standard techniques while being HV tolerant, making them good candidates for drift-based, fast collecting, thus radiation-hard pixel detectors.
We are investigating active pixel sensors, implementing amplifier and discriminator stages directly in insulating deep n-wells, which also act as collecting...
Toko Hirono
(University of Bonn)
26/09/2015, 16:30
The design of fast, rad-hard pixel detectors for future HEP experiments requires drift-based sensor concepts. To achieve this, high resistive bulk material and/or the possibility to apply high voltage to bias the sensor are needed. Commercial CMOS technologies on high resistive substrate are becoming an interesting option for this kind of development. In addition to the possibility of having a...
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Manwen Liu
(Xiangtan University)
26/09/2015, 19:01
Simulations and Manufacturing
POSTER
3D simulation and modeling of 3D silicon detectors with short electrode spacing and relatively thin thickness (200μm) have been showed in this paper. The column spacing L_p is in the range of 5μm to 10μm. At a bias voltage of only a few volts, this structure’s response time can be as fast as 10’s of ps. In this paper, we will report some simulated electrical characteristics of this detector...
Ren Xiao
(Xiangtan University)
26/09/2015, 19:02
Simulations and Manufacturing
POSTER
A spiral Si Drift Detector structure is simulated using a 3D TCAD tool. Electrical characteristics including electrostatic potential, electric field, leakage current, and capacitance have been simulated in detail. It has been found in simulations that both leakage current and the voltage to reach the geometry capacitance (full depletion voltage, Vfd) increase with radiation fluence. In...
Xiong Bo
(Xiangtan University)
26/09/2015, 19:03
Simulations and Manufacturing
POSTER
In order to obtain the high sensitivity Silicon Pixel Tracker(SPT), we gain the low capacitance which can reduce noise and improve signal-noise ratio through modeling and simulating the different type of the junction electrode structure by Sivalco TCAD. Then we get the electrical performance of capacitance, leakage current, electron concentration and electric field distribution. Through the...
Yuyun Li
(Xiangtan University)
26/09/2015, 19:04
Simulations and Manufacturing
POSTER
Silicon drift detector (SDD), which is the detector of low capacitance because of the small area’s anode, has many novel characteristics and advantages within the small electronics noise, high energy resolution, fast response time, and good position resolution. Due to these properties, SDD has been widely used in the fields of aerospace, medical science and high energy physics experiments. By...
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Yan Fan
(Central China Normal University)
26/09/2015, 19:05
Simulations and Manufacturing
POSTER
In this work a novel CMOS electrode readout scheme for HPGe(High Purity Germanium) detectors with a low noise and a low input capacitance has been presented. It is a new architecture which is different from the existing planar or coaxial or PC-HPGe (Point-Contact High Purity Germanium) detectors. We propose a readout scheme with double layers of grid electrodes on both top and bottom of the...
Ryutaro Nishimura
(The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (KEK))
26/09/2015, 19:07
Pixels (incl. CCD's) - X-ray imaging
POSTER
The authors are developing the X-ray imaging system by using a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology.
This system consists of the integration type SOI pixel detectors, named INTPIX4, and the DAQ system based on the multi purpose readout board, named SEABAS2 (Soi EvAluation BoArd with Sitcp 2). As in the past, the parallel readout have been already implemented to INTPIX4 and it realized...
Dr
Makoto Itou
(Kyoto University)
26/09/2015, 19:08
Pixels (incl. CCD's) - X-ray imaging
POSTER
We have been developing SOI pixel sensor (SOIPIX), "XRPIX", for future X-ray astronomical satellites, which is monolithic active pixel sensor based on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) pixel technology. XRPIX is equipped with event-driven readout mode which offers a fast readout with the timing resolution better than 10 micro sec by reading out the hit pixels only. We started development of the...
Dr
Shunichi Ohmura
(Kyoto Univ.)
26/09/2015, 19:09
Pixels (incl. CCD's) - X-ray imaging
POSTER
We have been developing X-ray SOIPIXs, "XRPIX", for future X-ray astronomy satellites based on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. XRPIX is equipped with a function of "event-driven readout", which allows us to read out the hit pixels only in order to realize a high time resolution better than 10micro sec. Current version of XRPIX suffers from significant degradation of the readout...
Anna Macchiolo
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
26/09/2015, 19:11
Pixels (including CCD's) - Charged particle tracking
POSTER
To meet the challenges of tracking at the luminosities delivered by the HL-LHC requires upgrades of tracking systems. To perform pattern recognition and vertexing in events with pile-up of up to 200 requires a larger area pixel system within the tracker. This paper reports on the development of large area planar detectors for the outer pixel layers and pixel endcaps. Large area sensors of area...
Mercedes Minano Moya
(National Taiwan University (TW))
26/09/2015, 19:12
Pixels (including CCD's) - Charged particle tracking
POSTER
The present CMS pixel detector has been designed to be fully efficient up to luminosity of 1e34 cm-2 s-1. The instantaneous luminosity of LHC will be raising up to 2e34 cm-2 s-1 in coming years. Therefore a new detector will be built and installed in the extended year-end technical stop (YETS) in 2016-17. It will consist of four barrel layers and three disks in each endcap (one layer more with...
Dr
Kai Yi
(University of Iowa)
26/09/2015, 19:13
Pixels (including CCD's) - Charged particle tracking
POSTER
The next incarnation of the CMS forward pixel detector, to be installed at the year end extended technical stop 2016-17, will need to survive an integrated luminosity of 300 fb^-1 with the inner radius of the active region of the disks decreasing from 6 to 4.5 cm. Based on the Run 1 experience and irradiation studies, the Phase 1 FPIX sensors will again be n-on-n DOFZ, with parameters similar...
Kimihiko Kimura
(Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP))
26/09/2015, 19:14
Pixels (including CCD's) - Charged particle tracking
POSTER
Radiation-tolerant n+-in-p planar pixel sensors have been under development in cooperation with Hamamtsu Photonics K.K. (HPK). This is geared towards applications in high-radiation environment, such as for the Inner Trackers (ITk) placed inside the ATLAS detector in the high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) experiment. Prototypes of those sensors have been produced, irradiated and evaluated through...
Chaosong Gao
(Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))
26/09/2015, 19:15
Pixels (including CCD's) - Charged particle tracking
POSTER
Monolithic active pixel sensors or MAPs receive interest in tracking applications in high energy physics as they integrate sensor and readout electronics in one silicon die with potential for lower material budget and cost, and better performance [\[1\]][1]. Source followers (SFs) are widely used for MAPs readout: they increase charge conversion gain (1/C$_{eff}$) because the follower action...
Zhijun Liang
(University of California,Santa Cruz (US))
26/09/2015, 19:16
Pixels (including CCD's) - Charged particle tracking
POSTER
The presentation will focus on the performance of analog readout electronics (built-in amplifier) integrated on the high-voltage (HV) CMOS silicon sensor chip, as well as its radiation hardness.
Since a CMOS sensor has a ten times lower total collected charge from MIP than for conventional planar sensor, it is crucial to integrate a low noise built-in amplifier on the sensor chip to improve...
Mr
Kookhyun Kang
(on behalf of the Belle-II SVD Collaboration)
26/09/2015, 19:18
The silicon vertex detector (SVD) for the Belle-II experiment comprises four layers of double-sided silicon strip detectors (DSSDs), assembled in a ladder-like structure. Each ladder module of the outermost SVD layer has four rectangular and one trapezoidal DSSDs supported by two carbon-fiber ribs. In order to achieve a good signal-to-noise ratio and minimize material budget, a novel...
Miguel Ullan Comes
(CNM-Barcelona (ES))
26/09/2015, 19:19
The interconnection of sensors and readout electronics is a subject of critical importance in the module design for High Energy Physics experiments, such as ATLAS. The sensors are made progressively larger, and the readout electronics smaller, and both contain increasingly more channels. The actual realization of the electrical connection between channels is not trivial and it becomes a yield...
Kazuki Todome
(Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP))
26/09/2015, 19:20
Toward the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) runs, the whole of ATLAS inner trackers will be replaced.
The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) using silicon micro strip sensors for tracking of the charged particles willalso be fully replaced.
Dedicated readout chips, ABCN250, for the new SCT sensor are being developed for the HL-LHC.
The $10 \times 10$ cm${}^2$ strip sensors and the readout chips...
Miho Takabe
(Waseda Univ)
26/09/2015, 19:22
New materials, new technologies associated
POSTER
The development of europium-doped strontium iodine (SrI2(Eu)) has attracted considerable attention, because of its excellent material priorities as regards gamma-ray scintillator applications. These include its excellent energy resolution, high light output (~80,000 ph/MeV), and high effective atomic number (Z = 49). Here we report on the performance of Φ1” × 1” SrI2(Eu) cylindrical crystals...
Felix Caspar Bachmair
(Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
26/09/2015, 19:23
New materials, new technologies associated
POSTER
We will present beam test results of the dependence of signal size on incident particle rate in charged particle detectors based on single-crystal and poly-crystalline CVD diamond. The detectors were tested over a range of particle fluxes from 2 kHz/cm^2 to 2 MHz/cm^2. The pulse height of the sensors was measured with pad and pixel readout electronics. We will present data from the 2014 and...
Li Yong
(Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology，Xi’an 710024, China)
26/09/2015, 19:24
New materials, new technologies associated
POSTER
Research mechanism of charge collection is a important factor for improving the performance of diamond particle detector. With semiconductor device simulation software GSRES, numerical simulations of transport properties of carriers in diamond are carried out. The important material properties, for instance, energy gap and ionization energies, which affect in simulation are set same to pure...
Hans-Guenther Moser
(MPI fuer Physik)
26/09/2015, 19:27
From 2010-2014 the EU funded AIDA-WP3 project invest established a network of groups working collaboratively on advanced 3D integration of electronic circuits and semiconductor sensors for applications in Particle Physics. The main motivation came from the severe requirements on pixel detectors for tracking and vertexing at future Particle Physics experiments at LHC, Super-B factories and...
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Development of a low-noise, area efficiency, 4-order readout circuit for silicon pixel detectors
Dr
JIA WANG
(Northwestern Polytechnical University)
26/09/2015, 19:28
Pixels (incl. CCD's) - X-ray imaging
POSTER
In recent years, silicon detectors are widely used in X ray imaging for medical and astronomical applications. The signal induced by some particles is so weak that specified readout circuit is required. The readout circuit can be connected with silicon detectors by AC-coupling or DC-coupling method. DC-coupling is prefered for pixel detectors, since the AC-coupling capacitors required occupy...
Dr
Jia WANG
(Northwestern Polytechnical University)
26/09/2015, 19:29
CdZnTe detectors are good candidates for high-efficiency, high-resolution, and room-temperature nuclear radiation detectors, and are especially suitable for the detection of the X-ray and γ-ray in the energy range of 20-800 keV. They are being widely used in environmental monitoring, medicine, industrial non-destructive testing, security inspection and space science. We report the study on the...
Dr
Di Guo
(Southern Methodist University)
26/09/2015, 19:30
VCSEL-based parallel optical data links have recently seen rapid and wide-spread deployment in high performance computing labs, data centers and Ethernet networks. The benefits include highly aggregated bandwidth, compact footprint and low power consumption. To apply the parallel optics in high energy physics, for example, in the LHC upgrades as well as other collider detector developments,...
Dr
Hiroshi Nakajima
(Osaka University)
26/09/2015, 19:31
We report on the performance evaluation of the readout ASIC developed for onboard X-ray CCD cameras in astrophysics. The quick and low-noise readout is essential for the pile-up free imaging spectroscopy with the future highly sensitive telescope. Our goal is the readout noise of 5e- rms at the pixel rate of 1Mpix/sec, which is about 10 times faster than those of the currently working...
Dr
Miho Yamada
(KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
26/09/2015, 19:34
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
POSTER
We are developing a method for removing trapped holes in the oxide layer of SOI monolithic pixel detector after irradiation.
Radiations that pass through detector generate electron-hole pairs in the oxide layer.
The holes are captured in the oxide layer due to lower mobility than the electron’s.
Positive potential of these trapped holes modify characteristic of MOSFETs of signal readout...
Mari Asano
(University of Tsukuba (JP))
26/09/2015, 19:35
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
POSTER
We are developing monolithic pixel sensors based on Lapis 0.2 $\mu$m fully-depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology. The SOI pixel sensors have properties such as low leakage current, fast response, and single event effects immunity. For use in hard radiation environments as in HEP experiments, the total ionizing dose (TID) effect is the major issue since the rather thick (200 nm) buried...
Mrs
Shuhuan Liu
(Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710049, China.)
26/09/2015, 19:36
The single event effects of DDR3 influenced on Xilinx Zynq-7010 SoC Microzed performance were tested with 1064nm laser irradiation. The major affecting factors responsible for SEE sensitive region distributions on DDR3 and the SEFI happening probabilities of SoC induced by laser irradiation on DDR3 were tested in detail. These experimental factors include the data communication modes between...
Mrs
Shuhuan Liu
(Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.)
26/09/2015, 19:37
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
POSTER
The displacement damage induced by high energy proton irrdiation were measured with I_DLTs. The detector typical electronic parameters including I-V,C-V, and electric field profile influced by proton radiation damage were tested and analyzed.
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Chenhui Wang
(State Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Radiation Simulation and Effect (Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology), Xi’an 710024, China)
26/09/2015, 19:38
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
POSTER
Four types of gate-controlled lateral PNP bipolar transistors have been designed in a commercial bipolar process to investigate their sensitivity to radiation-induced degradation. New experimental and simulated results concerning neutron displacement effects, total ionizing dose effects and ionizing/displacement synergistic effects are presented. Neutron radiation effect experiments on the...
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Chenhui Wang
(State Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Radiation Simulation and Effect (Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology), Xi’an 710024, China)
26/09/2015, 19:39
Simulations and Manufacturing
POSTER
Lateral PNP bipolar transistors with different neutral base widths, base doping concentrations and emitter perimeters have been first irradiated with gamma rays then neutrons and compared to the same devices exposed to neutrons only. The data shows that gamma irradiation can make subsequent neutron displacement damage larger and this phenomenon may be due to the increased surface potential...
Mr
Yan Liu
(State Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Radiation Simulation and Effect, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, P. O. Box 69-10, 710024, Xi’an, China)
26/09/2015, 19:40
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
POSTER
This paper present the synergistic effects on bipolar operational amplifier OP07. The radiation effects were investigated by neutron beam、gamma ray、mixed neutron and gamma ray environments. The trend and character of the synergistic effects were studied through comparison and analysis on different experiment results. Results show that the bipolar operational amplifier OP07 exhibited...
Yao Zhang
(Xi'an Jiaotong University)
26/09/2015, 19:41
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
POSTER
We conducted a number of experiments on Xilinx Zynq-7010 28-nm System on chip (SoC) , which was irradiated respectively with alpha particles, protons and laser, to study Single Event Effect (SEE) of SoC. In alpha experiments, 241Am α source at the energy of 5 MeV was used to irradiate the SoC chip. In proton experiments, 3 MeV, 5 MeV and 10 MeV mono-energetic proton beams were vertically...
Yao Zhang
(Xi'an Jiaotong University)
26/09/2015, 19:42
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
POSTER
Protons in earth’s space radiation environment pose a serious threat to astronautics electronic system, where System on Chip (SoC) is widely used. Therefore, we carried out low energy proton experiments on 28-nm SoC and emulated typical modules influenced by incoming particles in SoC to explore proton Single Event Effects (SEE). In the radiation experiments, the SoC chip was irradiated by...
Dr
zujun wang
(Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology)
26/09/2015, 19:43
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
POSTER
A method is presented for modeling and simulation of radiation effects on Si PIN photodetectors irradiated by neutron beams and γ ionization pulses. To focus on the modeling and simulation process, the device model, radiation models, and solution methods are described in detail. The mechanism of dark current increase of the PIN photodetectors induced by neutron radiation is analyzed. The...
Suen Hou
(Academia Sinica (TW))
26/09/2015, 19:44
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
POSTER
The MTx optical transmitter is developed for the ATLAS phase-I upgrade required for environmental durability. The data transmission of up to 8 Gbps is conducted with VCSELs in TOSA packaging and the custom developed LOCld laser driver of CMOS process suitable for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) environment. We discuss the MTx design and specification. Aging tests in 85$^o$C/85%RH condition...
Satoshi Hasegawa
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
26/09/2015, 19:46
Applications in High Energy Physics
POSTER
The present CMS pixel detector will be replaced in the extended end of year shutdown between 2016 and 2017 with a new detector that will feature one additional tracking layer, faster readout electronics to cope with the increase in instantaneous luminosity, and a new CO2 cooling system that will help avoiding increases in the total material in the tracker. This presentation will focus on the...
Ilhan Tapan
(Uludag University (TR))
26/09/2015, 19:47
Simulations and Manufacturing
POSTER
A silicon tracker system was designed for the Turkish Accelerator Center Particle Factory (TAC PF) detector to track relatively low momentum charged particles. The designed tracking detector system consists of five individual cylindrical barrel modules and each module has two parallel single-sided silicon strip detector planes assembled into carbon layers. This structure has already been...
Hartmut Sadrozinski
(SCIPP, UC santa Cruz)
26/09/2015, 19:48
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
POSTER
We report the results from CT scans with 200 MeV protons using the head scanner developed by the pCT collaboration in the last four years. The tracker is based on Fermi silicon strip detectors employing “slim edge” technology and is read out by a fast ASIC specifically designed for this application. The energy detector is a multi-stage scintillation counter permitting fast pulse shaping and...
Tatsuya Nakaoka
(Hiroshima Univ.)
26/09/2015, 19:49
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
POSTER
We are studying a hard X-ray detector using a combination of a plastic scintillator and a multi-pixel photon counters (MPPC). Usually photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) have been adopted to read scintillators because of its high-gain and large photoelectric surface, and studies of PMT and scintillator systems are well advanced. However there exist limitations for PMTs. For example they have...
Xuecheng Du
(Xi’an Jiaotong University)
26/09/2015, 19:50
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
POSTER
The sensitivity to radiation is dramatically increasing with the decrease in transistor dimensions and operating voltages for modern integrated circuit (IC).The low energy proton also causes single event effects through direct ionization.The System-on Chip (SoC) contains complex circuit elements in a chip. Therefore,we provided a methodology and set up a test system to measure the proton...
Xuecheng Du
(Xi’an Jiaotong University)
26/09/2015, 19:51
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
POSTER
Radiation-induced soft errors are an increasingly important threat to the reliability of modern electronic systems. The System-on Chip (SoC) includes a variety of electronic components, such as CPU and SRAM. Therefore, the dependability of SoC is becoming a serious issue in operating condition. In this work, we performed the single event effect testing in Xilinx Zynq-7010 SoC chip using 241Am...
Dr
Bo Kyuyng Cha
(KERI)
26/09/2015, 19:52
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
POSTER
The imaging quality associated with the extent of the angle of gantry rotation, the number of projection views, and the dose of X-ray radiation was investigated in flat-panel detector (FPD) based C-arm cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) system for medical applications. A prototype CBCT system for the projection acquisition used the X-ray tube (A-132, Varian inc.) having rhenium-tungsten...
Bo Kyung Cha
(KERI)
26/09/2015, 19:53
Pixels (incl. CCD's) - X-ray imaging
POSTER
Currently, the wafer-scale CMOS flat panel imagers have been widely used in X-ray medical imaging applications including dental CBCT, mammography as well as NDT (nondestructive testing). The CMOS active pixel sensor (APS) has many advantages such as the higher readout speed, low noise, high spatial resolution and high system integration compared to amorphous silicon TFT-based flat panel...
Bo Kyung Cha
(KERI)
26/09/2015, 19:54
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
POSTER
The emergence of digital flat panel detector (FPD)-based fluoroscopy and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) system provides real-time 2D image influoroscopy and three-dimensional (3D) visualization with sub-millimeter spatial resolution. A modern CBCT system with C-arm and closed O-arm gantry incorporating a large-area flat-panel detector is widely used as a modality for diagnosis and...
Masanori Ohno
(Hiroshima University)
26/09/2015, 19:55
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
POSTER
ASTRO-H is the 6th Japanese X-ray observatory which is scheduled to be launched in 2015. Two of onboard instruments, the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) and the Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD)
are surrounded by large and thick BGO (Bi$_4$Ge$_3$O$_{12}$) active shields to reduce the background. Since there are large number of BGO crystals with various
types of size and shape, we apply Avalanche...
Shota Inoue
(Osaka university)
26/09/2015, 19:56
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
POSTER
The ASTRO-H satellite is the 6th Japanese X-ray astronomical observatory to be launched in FY2015. The satellite carries four kinds of detectors, and one of them is an X-ray charge-coupled device (CCD) camera, the soft X-ray imager (SXI), installed on the focal plane of an X-ray telescope. The SXI contains four CCD chips, each with an imaging area of $31\,{\rm mm}\times31\,{\rm mm}$, arrayed...
Takayoshi Kohmura
(Tokyo University of Science)
26/09/2015, 19:57
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
POSTER
We have developed X-ray CCD which was named Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on onboard ASTRO-H which will launch in 2015. We employed the P-channel, back-illuminated (BI) type CCDs for SXI camera with a depletion layer thickness of 200um manufactured by Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. SXI CCD has high QE at the soft X-ray energy range below 2.0keV and thanks to its thick depletion layer, SXI enables to cover...
Reiner Klingenberg
(Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
27/09/2015, 09:00
The innermost tracking detector of the ATLAS experiment at CERN-LHC consists of planar n-in-n pixel sensors with FE-I3 front-end electronics as hybrid. Also the newly installed insertable b-layer (IBL) at the ATLAS experiment consists of pixel sensors with a revised design layout and an improved FE-I4 front-end electronics. The envisaged radiation dose in the run II data taking period of the...
Anna Macchiolo
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
27/09/2015, 09:20
Thin planar pixel modules are promising candidates to instrument the inner layers of the new ATLAS pixel detector for HL-LHC, thanks to the reduced contribution to the material budget and their high charge collection efficiency after irradiation. 100-200 um thick sensors, interconnected to FE-I4 read-out chips, have been characterized with radioactive source scans and beam tests at the...
Marco Meschini
(Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))
27/09/2015, 09:40
We report on the INFN ATLAS-CMS joint research activity in collaboration with FBK, which is aiming at the development of new pixel detectors for the LHC Phase-2 upgrades. The High Luminosity LHC will need the complete replacement of the ATLAS and CMS inner trackers with new ones fulfilling the requirements of higher radiation fluence (2x10E16 neq/cm2, or equivalently 1 Grad, expected on the...
Yoshinobu Unno
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
27/09/2015, 10:00
We have been developing planar-process pixel sensors in p-type 6-in. silicon wafer aiming for applying the pixel sensors for very high radiation environments such as high luminosity upgrade of the large hadron collider (HL-LHC). The planar process has been established well and is a cost-effective solution for the pixel sensors covering large area of a tracking detector. The p-type silicon...
Giovanni Calderini
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
27/09/2015, 10:20
In view of the LHC upgrade phases towards the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the ATLAS experiment plans to upgrade the Inner Detector with an all-silicon system. The n-on-p silicon technology is a promising candidate to achieve a large area instrumented with pixel sensors, since it is radiation hard and cost effective.
The presentation describes the performance of novel n-in-p edgeless planar...
Dr
Xintian Shi
(Paul Scherrer Institute)
27/09/2015, 11:10
The AGIPD (Adaptive Gain Integrating Pixel Detector) collaboration - consisting of Deutsches Elektronensysnchrotron (DESY), University of Hamburg, University of Bonn and the Paul-Scherrer-Institute (PSI) - is currently developing a 2D hybrid pixel detector system capable to fulfill the requirements of the European XFEL (Eu-XFEL) that is currently being built in Hamburg (Germany) and where the...
Yasuo Arai
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
27/09/2015, 11:30
Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) monolithic pixel sensor is a new imaging device which can be used for looking many kinds of invisible object, such as X-ray, charged particle, ion beam, infrared light, neutron and so on.
SOI technology has many outstanding features and there were several projects to develop SOI sensors in 1990's and early 2000's. Unfortunately most of them are stopped due to...
Dr
Yunpeng Lu
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
27/09/2015, 11:50
Aiming at a fine pitch counting type pixel array for low energy x-ray imaging, a prototype chip based on Double-SOI process was designed and tested. The long lasting problem of crosstalk in SOI technology was solved in this chip and the single pixel test demonstrated good detection performance.
Martin Printz
(KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
27/09/2015, 12:10
In order to determine the most radiation hard silicon sensors for the CMS Experiment after the Phase II Upgrade in 2023 a comprehensive study of silicon sensors after a fluence of up to 1.5e15 neq/cm^2 corresponding to 3000fb-1 after the HL-LHC era has been carried out. The reuslts led to the decision that the future Outer Tracker (~20cm < R < ~110cm) of CMS will consist of n-in-p type...
Thomas Bergauer
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
27/09/2015, 14:30
The CMS Tracker Collaboration has designed and procured test-structures and full-size silicon strip sensor prototypes from several vendors. These productions are intended for evaluating the production quality of the manufacturers, for providing functional sensors for module prototypes and for concluding the survey towards a suitable silicon base material and sensor design. We provide an...
Bart Hommels
(University of Cambridge (GB))
27/09/2015, 14:50
The "ATLAS ITk Strip Sensor Collaboration" R&D group has developed a second iteration of single-sided $n$-in-$p$ type micro-strip sensors for use in the tracker upgrade of the ATLAS experiment at the High-Luminosity (HL) LHC.
The full size sensors measure approximately 97 x 97 mm$^{2}$ and are designed and engineered for tolerance against the 10$^{15}$ 1 MeV n$_{eq}/$cm$^{2}$ fluence...
Mark Tobin
(Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
27/09/2015, 15:10
The LHCb experiment is dedicated to the study of heavy flavour physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The primary goal of the experiment is to search
for indirect evidence of new physics via measurements of CP violation and rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons. The LHCb detector
is a single-arm forward spectrometer and includes a high-precision tracking system consisting of a...
Kazuhiko Hara
(University of Tsukuba (JP))
27/09/2015, 16:00
The ATLAS group has evaluated the charge collection in silicon microstrip sensors irradiated up to fluence of 1$\times$10$^{16}$ n$_{\rm eq}$/cm$^2$, exceeding the 1.6$\times$10$^{15}$ n$_{\rm eq}$/cm$^2$ maximum expected during the HL-LHC period including a safety factor of 2. The ATLAS12, n$^+$-on-p type sensors fabricated by HPK on FZ substrates, is the latest barrel sensor design.
The...
Vitaliy Fadeyev
(University of California,Santa Cruz (US))
27/09/2015, 16:20
ATLAS has formed strip CMOS project to study the use of CMOS MAPS devices silicon strip sensors for the Phase-II Strip Tracker Upgrade. This choice of sensors promises several advantages over the conventional baseline design, such as better resolution, less material in the tracking volume, and faster construction speed. At the same time, many design features of the sensors are driven by the...
Marcela Mikestikova
(Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))
27/09/2015, 16:40
on behalf of the ATLAS ITk Strip Sensor Collaboration
A radiation hard *n*-in-*p* micro-strip sensor for the use in the Upgrade of the strip tracker of the ATLAS experiment at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) has been developed by the “ATLAS ITk Strip Sensor collaboration” and produced by Hamamatsu Photonics.
Surface properties of different types of end-cap and barrel...
Riccardo Mori
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
27/09/2015, 17:00
R. Mori on behalf of the ATLAS ITK Strip Sensor community
The upgrade to the High Luminosity LHC foreseen in about ten years represents a great challenge
for the ATLAS inner tracker and the silicon strip sensors in the forward region which have to sustain a radiation fluence up to 2*10^15 n_eq/cm^2. Several strip sensor designs have been developed by ATLAS and fabricated by Hamamatsu in...
Johannes Hacker
(u)
27/09/2015, 17:20
Dr
Goro Sato
(ISAS/JAXA)
28/09/2015, 09:00
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
The Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) is one of the instruments onboard ASTRO-H, which is scheduled for launch in 2015. The HXI is placed 12 m below the hard X-ray focusing mirrors, and performs imaging spectroscopy with the sensitivity for detecting point sources down to a brightness of 1/100,000 times fainter than the Crab nebula at > 10 keV. The semiconductor camera in the HXI is realized as a...
Hendrik Jansen
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))
28/09/2015, 09:30
New materials, new technologies associated
ORAL
The necessity for detectors with improved spatial resolution drives many silicon detector R&D projects towards small pitch sizes in various areas of research. However, the evolutionary approach of reduced pitch size increases the number of channels and thus needed bandwidth for detector read-out. A new detector concept, a Pascalian later drift detector (pLAD), exemplifying a strategy for high...
K.K. Gan
(The Ohio State University (US))
28/09/2015, 09:50
Electronics
ORAL
The LHC at CERN is now the highest energy and luminosity collider in the world. The collider and detectors have just completed an upgrade to operate at higher energy and luminosity. In addition, there are plans to further upgrade the collider and detectors to operate at even higher energy and luminosity. This requires the optical links to transmit data at much higher speed to handle the much...
Andrej Gorisek
(Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
28/09/2015, 10:10
New materials, new technologies associated
ORAL
We propose a novel method to investigate the properties of silicon and CVD diamond detectors for High Energy Physics experiments. The method is similar to the already well established E-TCT technique using laser beam. In the proposed method the beam of high energy hadrons (MIPs) is used instead of laser beam. MIPs incident on the detector in the direction parallel to the readout electrode...
Marko Mikuz
(Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
28/09/2015, 10:30
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
ORAL
Electric field in silicon irradiated with neutrons up to 1e17 n_eq/cm^2 was investigated by edge-TCT. Methods for absolute determination of electric field were developed. From the v(E) dependence mobility degradation with fluence was extracted. A simple field structure was observed, consistent with a SCR and "ENB", a region that does not contribute to leakage current and the electric field...
Simon Viel
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
28/09/2015, 10:50
Applications in High Energy Physics
ORAL
In order to enable the ATLAS experiment to successfully track charged particles produced in high-energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, the current ATLAS Inner Detector will be replaced by the Inner Tracker (ITk), entirely composed of silicon pixel and strip detectors. An extension of the tracking coverage of ITk to very forward pseudorapidity values is proposed, using...
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Mr
Yasuhiro Iwamoto
(Waseda University)
29/09/2015, 09:00
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
ORAL
In recent years, various gamma-ray visualization techniques (gamma camera) have been proposed. These techniques are extremely effective for identification of “hot spots,” i.e., regions where radioactive isotopes accumulate in nuclear disaster-affected areas in Fukushima and around a nuclear reactor. However, the images acquired with a gamma camera do not include the distance information...
Hiromitsu Takahashi
(Hiroshima University)
29/09/2015, 09:20
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
ORAL
After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, the public necessity
increases to measure and identify the radioactive isotopes from the
environment. Although Ge detectors are powerful with the high energy
resolution, it is too expensive (and heavy) to be used widely.
Therefore, we developed an inexpensive portable compact gamma-ray
spectrometer with the combination of CsI(Tl) scintillator...
Jie Zhang
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
29/09/2015, 09:40
A hybrid pixel detector working in the single photon counting mode was designed for the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) in China. Aiming for diffraction and protein crystallography applications, the pixel readout chip works in single photon counting mode in each pixel. It contains an array of 104 × 72 pixels with a pixel size of 150µm×150µm, each owning a counting depth of 20bit. Different...
Lodovico Ratti
(Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT))
29/09/2015, 10:00
The unprecedented features of X-ray free electron lasers, capable of producing photon pulses with outstanding brightness and ultra-short duration, promise to revolutionise a number of research fields, including structural biology and chemistry, material science and nuclear and molecular physics. Specific instrumentation needs to be designed and fabricated to comply with the demanding...
Dr
Lili Ding
(State Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Radiation Simulation and Effect, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, China; Department of Information Engineering, Padova University, Italy)
29/09/2015, 10:20
Radiation damage, Environmental radiation monitoring
ORAL
Due to the possibility of offering stronger data processing ability, 65 nm CMOS technology is being studied for the perspective of replacing the widely used 130 nm CMOS technology in CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). For electronics working under High Energy Physics (HEP) environments, the target has now been raised up to 1 Grad(SiO2) for the electronics in the LHC upgrade, which is the...
Mr
Takanori Taya
(Waseda University)
29/09/2015, 11:10
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
Real-time gamma imaging during particle therapy is expected to improve the accuracy of the therapy. A Compton camera is a promising detector for online monitoring during the particle therapy because it is capable of conducting measurements across a wide energy range, measuring not only the annihilation gamma rays (511 keV) but also a part of the prompt gamma rays. In this study, we...
Alberto Cervelli
(Universitaet Bern (CH))
29/09/2015, 11:30
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful medical imaging method, which requires a precise measurement of two coincident low energy photons, with great spatial and time resolution. We present a plan to build a novel compact PET detector system based on pixel silicon detectors developed for ATLAS Phase-II upgrade which will achieve. A time resolution of the order of 30 ps for optimal...
Jon Taylor
(University of Liverpool)
29/09/2015, 11:50
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
For many years, silicon micro-strip detectors have been successfully used as tracking detectors for particle and nuclear physics experiments. A new application of this technology is to the field of particle therapy where radiotherapy is carried out by use of charged particles such as protons or carbon ions. Such a treatment has been shown to have advantages over standard x-ray radiotherapy and...
Olaf Steinkamp
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
29/09/2015, 12:10
Applications in High Energy Physics
ORAL
The LHCb detector performs searches for New Physics in CP-violating observables and rare heavy-quark decays at the LHC. A comprehensive upgrade is planned for the long shutdown of the LHC in 2018/19. A goal of this upgrade is to abolish hardware triggers and read out the full detector at 40 MHz. This requires to replace the existing TT station upstream of the LHCb magnet by a new silicon...
Felix Caspar Bachmair
(Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
29/09/2015, 14:00
With the recent turn-on of the LHC at 13TeV, ATLAS and CMS are planning to upgrade their innermost tracking layers with more radiation hard technologies. Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamond is one such technology. CVD diamond has been used extensively in beam condition monitors as the innermost detectors in the highest radiation areas of BaBar, Belle, CDF and all LHC experiments. This talk...
Philipp Azzarello
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
29/09/2015, 14:30
The DArk Matter Particle Explorer is a spaceborne astroparticle physics experiment, programmed for launch on December 2015. It is one the five satellites of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) “Strategic Pioneer Research Program in Space Science” program.
DAMPE will identify possible dark matter signatures by detecting electrons and photons in the 5 GeV – 10 TeV energy range. It will also...
Hongbo Zhu
(Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
29/09/2015, 15:10
The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) has been proposed by the Chinese High Energy Physics Community to operate as a Higgs Factory, which allows precision measurements of the properties of the discovered Higgs particle. The CEPC vertex detector, which will be placed closest to the interaction point, must fulfill the stringent performance requirements on high spatial resolution, low...
Hartmut Sadrozinski
(SCIPP, UC santa Cruz)
29/09/2015, 15:30
