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The MuPix Telescope: A Thin, high Rate Tracking Telescope
The MuPix Telescope is a particle tracking telescope, optimized for tracking
low momentum particles and high rates. It is based on the novel High-Voltage
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (HV-MAPS), designed for the Mu3e tracking
detector. The telescope represents a first application of the HV-MAPS
technology and also serves as test bed of the Mu3e readout chain. The telescope
consists of up to eight layers of the newest prototypes, the MuPix7 sensors,
which send data self-triggered via fast serial links to FPGAs, where the data
is time-ordered and sent to the PC. A particle hit rate of 1 MHz per layer
could be processed. Online tracking is performed with a subset of the incoming
data. The general concept of the telescope, chip architecture, readout concept
and online reconstruction are described. The performance of the sensor and of
the telescope during test beam measurements are presented.Comment: Proceedings TWEPP 2016, 8 pages, 7 figure
MuPix7 - A fast monolithic HV-CMOS pixel chip for Mu3e
The MuPix7 chip is a monolithic HV-CMOS pixel chip, thinned down to 50 \mu m.
It provides continuous self-triggered, non-shuttered readout at rates up to 30
Mhits/chip of 3x3 mm^2 active area and a pixel size of 103x80 \mu m^2. The hit
efficiency depends on the chosen working point. Settings with a power
consumption of 300 mW/cm^2 allow for a hit efficiency >99.5%. A time resolution
of 14.2 ns (Gaussian sigma) is achieved. Latest results from 2016 test beam
campaigns are shown.Comment: Proceedingsfor the PIXEL2016 conference, submitted to JINST A
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Edge-TCT evaluation of high voltage-CMOS test structures with unprecedented breakdown voltage for high radiation tolerance
Abstract
This paper presents the edge Transient Current Technique (eTCT) measurements of passive test-structures on the UKRI-MPW0 pixel chip, a 280 µm thick proof-of-concept High Voltage-CMOS (HV-CMOS) device designed and fabricated in the LFoundry 150 nm technology node with a nominal substrate resistivity of 1.9 kΩ cm. Samples were irradiated up to 1 × 1016 1 MeV neq cm−2 with neutrons to observe the change in depletion depth and effective doping concentration with irradiation. A depletion depth of the sensor was found to be ≈50 µm at ≈−400 V at 1 × 1016 1 MeV neq cm−2. A stable damage introduction rate (g
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) was also calculated to be 0.011 ± 0.002 cm−1.</jats:p
Upgrading the beam telescopes at the DESY II Test Beam Facility
The DESY II Test Beam Facility is a key infrastructure for modern high energy physics detector development, providing particles with a small momentum spread in a range from 1 to 6 GeV to user groups e.g. from the LHC experiments and Belle II as well as generic detector R&D. Beam telescopes are provided in all three test beam areas as precise tracking reference without time stamping, with triggered readout and a readout time of >115 s . If the highest available rates are used, multiple particles are traversing the telescopes within one readout frame, thus creating ambiguities that cannot be resolved without additional timing layers. Several upgrades are currently investigated and tested: Firstly, a fast monolithic pixel sensor, the TelePix, to provide precise track timing and triggering on a region of interest is proposed to overcome this limitation. The TelePix is a 180 nm HV-CMOS sensor that has been developed jointly by DESY, KIT and the University of Heidelberg and designed at KIT. In this publication, the performance evaluation is presented: The difference between two amplifier designs is evaluated. A high hit detection efficiency of above 99.9 % combined with a time resolution of below 4 ns at negligible pixel noise rates is determined. Finally, the digital hit output to provide region of interest triggering is evaluated and shows a short absolute delay with respect to a traditional trigger scintillator as well as an excellent time resolution. Secondly, a fast LGAD plane has been proposed to provide a time resolution of a few 10 ps, which is foreseen to drastically improve the timing performance of the telescope. Time resolutions of below 70 ps have been determined in collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara
MuPix and ATLASPix -- Architectures and Results
High Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (HV-MAPS) are based on a
commercial High Voltage CMOS process and collect charge by drift inside a
reversely biased diode. HV-MAPS represent a promising technology for future
pixel tracking detectors. Two recent developments are presented. The MuPix has
a continuous readout and is being developed for the Mu3e experiment whereas the
ATLASPix is being developed for LHC applications with a triggered readout. Both
variants have a fully monolithic design including state machines, clock
circuitries and serial drivers. Several prototypes and design variants were
characterised in the lab and in testbeam campaigns to measure efficiencies,
noise, time resolution and radiation tolerance. Results from recent MuPix and
ATLASPix prototypes are presented and prospects for future improvements are
discussed.Comment: 10 pages, proceedings, The 28th International Workshop on Vertex
Detectors (VERTEX 2019), 13 - 18 Oct 2019, Lopud Island, Croati
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