Infrastructure for Detector Research and Development towards the International Linear Collider

The EUDET-project was launched to create an infrastructure for developing and testing new and advanced detector technologies to be used at a future linear collider. The aim was to make possible experimentation and analysis of data for institutes, which otherwise could not be realized due to lack of resources. The infrastructure comprised an analysis and software network, and instrumentation infrastructures for tracking detectors as well as for calorimetry.Comment: 54 pages, 48 picture

Cosmic Origins (COR) Program Technology Development 2018

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A Compact High Energy Camera (CHEC) for the Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is one of the Small Size Telescopes (SSTs) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) aimed at the 1 TeV to 300 TeV energy range. GCT will be equipped with a Compact High-Energy Camera (CHEC) containing 2048 pixels of physical size about 6$\times$6~mm$^2$, leading to a field of view of over 8 degrees. Electronics based on custom TARGET ASICs and FPGAs sample incoming signals at a gigasample per second and provide a flexible triggering scheme. Waveforms for every pixel in every event are read out are on demand without loss at over 600 events per second. A GCT prototype in Meudon, Paris saw first Cherenkov light from air showers in late 2015, using the first CHEC prototype, CHEC-M. This contribution presents results from lab and field tests with CHEC-M and the progress made to a robust camera design for deployment within CTA.Comment: All CTA contributions at arXiv:1709.0348

Ultrafast linear array detector for real-time imaging

KALYPSO is a novel detector operating at line rates above 10 Mfps. It consists of a detector board connected to FPGA based readout card for real time data processing. The detector board holds a Si or InGaAs linear array sensor, with spectral sensitivity ranging from 400 nm to 2600 nm, which is connected to a custom made front-end ASIC. A FPGA readout framework performs the real time data processing. In this contribution, we present the detector system, the readout electronics and the heterogeneous infrastructure for machine learning processing. The detector is currently in use at several synchrotron facilities for beam diagnostics as well as for single-pulse laser characterizations. Thanks to the shot-to-shot capability over long time scale, new attractive applications are open up for imaging in biological and medical research

A Bulk Driven Transimpedance CMOS Amplifier for SiPM Based Detection

The contribution of this work lies in the development of a bulk driven operationaltransconducctance amplifier which can be integrated with other analog circuits andphotodetectors in the same chip for compactness, miniaturization and reducing thepower. Silicon photomultipliers, also known as SiPMs, when coupled with scintillator materials are used in many imaging applications including nuclear detection. This thesis discuss the design of a bulk-driven transimpedance amplifier suitable for detectors where the front end is a SiPM. The amplifier was design and fabricated in a standard standard CMOS process and is suitable for integration with CMOS based SiPMs and commercially available SiPMs. Specifically, the amplifier was verified in simulations and experiment using circuit models for the SiPM. The bulk-driven amplifier’s performance, was compared to a commerciallyavailable amplifier with approximately the same open loop gain (70dB). Bothamplifiers were verified with two different light sources, a scintillator and a SiPM.The energy resolution using the bulk driven amplifier was 8.6% and was 14.2% forthe commercial amplifier indicating the suitability of the amplifier design for portable systems