2012/01/27 by E. Vilella, Oscar Alonso, O. Alonso +13
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Photocathodes and Microchannel Plates #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #hep-ex #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.5802
7 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of LCWS11
arxiv created 2012/01/27 · openalex publication_date 2012/01/27 · arxiv updated 2012/01/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
It is well known that avalanche photodiodes operated in the Geiger mode above the breakdown voltage offer a virtually infinite sensitivity and time accuracy in the picosecond range that can be used for single photon detection. However, their performance in particle detection remains still unexplored. In this contribution, we are going to expose the different steps that we have taken in order to prove the efficiency of Geiger mode avalanche photodiodes in the aforementioned field. In particular, we will present an array of pixels of 1mmx1mm fabricated with a standard CMOS technology for characterization in a test beam.