The Checker Board Counter: A Semiconductor dE/dx Detector with Position Indication

Hofker, W.K.; Oosthoek, D. P.; Hoeberechts, A. M. E.; Dantzig, R. van; Mulder, K.; Oberski, J.E.J.; Koerts, L.A.Ch.; Dieperink, J.H.; Kok, E.; Rumphorst, R.F.

doi:10.1109/tns.1966.4324100

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“…Strip widths from 0.5 mm [6,7] to 1 mm [8][9][10] are reported. A checker board detector [11,12] with strips of 1.37 mm oriented orthogonally on the front and the back side of the wafer has been available commercially. But in nuclear physics the strip detectors have been largely abandoned in favour of position sensitive detectors using charge division read-out [13].…”

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A silicon surface barrier microstrip detector designed for high energy physics

Heijne

Hubbeling

Hyams

et al. 1980

Nuclear Instruments and Methods

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A silicon microstrip detector was manufactured using the surface barrier technique. It has 100 strips at 200 lam pitch and it is 400 t~m thick. To each strip a fast current sensitive preamplifier is connected so that minimum ionizing particles can be detected on single strips. The signals have a duration of 40 ns and are processed using standard equipment. A description is given of the results which were obtained in two high energy particle beams at CERN.

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A silicon surface barrier microstrip detector designed for high energy physics

Heijne

Hubbeling

Hyams

et al. 1980

Nuclear Instruments and Methods

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“…Schottky barrier diodes were used first [44] [45]. Kemmer developed a process to fabricate P-diodes on high resistivity N-type material (P-on-N) [46] [47], providing much lower leakage currents.…”

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How chips helped discover the Higgs boson at CERN

Snoeys¹

2014

ESSCIRC 2014 - 40th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)

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Integrated circuits and devices revolutionized particle physics experiments, and have been a cornerstone in the recent discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Particles are accelerated and brought into collision at specific interaction points. Detectors are giant cameras, about 40 m long by 20 m in diameter, constructed around these interaction points to take pictures of collision products as they fly away from the collision point. They contain millions of channels, often implemented as reverse biased silicon pin diode arrays covering areas of up to 200 m 2 in the center of the experiment, generating a small (~1fC) electric charge upon particle traversals. Integrated circuits provide the readout, and accept collision rates of about 40 MHz with on-line selection of potentially interesting events before data storage. Power consumption directly impacts the measurement quality as it governs the amount of material present in the detector. Radiation tolerance has to exceed space requirements by orders of magnitude. The presence of tens of thousands of chips in a single system requires special attention to uniformity, robustness and redundancy.

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“…Some companies were mostly producing for their internal needs, such as Siemens for their 'air ball' nuclear reactor neutron monitoring systems, and Philips for their electron microscopes. The Philips 'Checker Board' detector [17] was practically the only segmented Si detector for sale, but it was difficult to build a readout system for such a device.…”

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