Metal and hybrid TimePix detectors imaging beams of particles

Position-Sensitive Silicon Detector for X-Ray Difractometry of Rapid Processes

“…The effective application of silicon position-sensitive detectors designed for the purposes of experimental high energy physics, namely, for recording low-energy ions [4] and synchrotron radiation [5] was an impetus for the development of position-sensitive micro-detector. Addressing the problem of sensor radiation hardness the INR of NASU in cooperation with MEDIPIX Col laboration (CERN) and IAP of NASU has been developed and tested on charged particle beams and synchrotron radiation the prototypes of metal micropixel and micro-strip detectors which are resistant to radiation by definition of their physical and technical principles [6].…”

Position Sensitive Micro-Strip and Micro-Pixel Detectors

“…For monitoring in real time the distribution of dose from individual beams of synchrotron radiation we have proposed and tested detector system based on metal mode micro-pixel detector TimePix [8]. 'In-situ' operation of the TimePix provides measurement of the dose distribution in real time.…”

“…Below some test results are presented for testing TimePix micro-pixel readout chip [8] as a (256 × × 256) metal micro-detectors at the focal plane of the laser mass-spectrometer. It is a bare read-out chip with its input contact pads used as metal sensors with an external metal grid positi ve ly biased to improve a charge collection.…”

“…The MEDIPIX Collaboration (CERN) has developed a pixel readout chip TimePix used for a variety of applications [8]. In particular, it has been successfully tested as a prototype of the electronic focal plane for measuring mass-spectra of low energy ions at the mass-spectrometer [9].…”