- Typ
- Artikel in einem Journal
- Gebiet
- Detektorentwicklung
- Autor
- S. Tsigaridas, N. van Bakel, Y. Bilevych, V. Gromov, F. Hartjes, N.P. Hessey, P. de Jong, R. Kluit
- Titel
- Precision Tracking with a Single Gaseous Pixel Detector
- Datum
- 2015-06
- Reportnummer
- NIMA 795 (2015) 309-317
- Kurzfassung
- The importance of micro-pattern gaseous detectors has grown over the past few years after successful usage in a large number of applications in physics experiments and medicine. We develop gaseous pixel detectors using micromegas-based amplification structures on top of CMOS pixel readout chips. Using wafer post-processing we add a spark-protection layer and a grid to create an amplification region above the chip, allowing individual electrons released above the grid by the passage of ionising radiation to be recorded. The electron creation point is measured in 3D, using the pixel position for (x, y) and the drift time for z. The track can be reconstructed by fitting a straight line to these points.
In this work we have used a pixel-readout-chip which is a small-scale prototype of Timepix3 chip (designed for both silicon and gaseous detection media). This prototype chip has several advantages over the existing Timepix chip, including a faster front-end (pre-amplifier and discriminator) and a faster TDC which reduce timewalk׳s contribution to the z position error. Although the chip is very small (sensitive area of View the MathML source 0.88 × 0.88 mm²), we have built it into a detector with a short drift gap (1.3 mm), and measured its tracking performance in an electron beam at DESY. We present the results obtained, which lead to a significant improvement for the resolutions with respect to Timepix-based detectors.
- Journal
- doi:10.1016/j.nima.2015.06.005