Study of silicon sensors for precise timing measurement

Abstract

A: Silicon sensors with high timing resolution can help particle identification in the International Linear Collider (ILC). We are studying Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) as a sensor with high timing resolution. As a step to develop LGADs we are now characterizing Avalanche Photo Diodes (APDs), which have similar multiplication structure as LGADs. Particles from radioisotopes are used for studies in this paper. K: Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid-state); Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si-PMTs, G-APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs, CMOS imagers, etc); Instrumentation and methods for time-of-flight (TOF) spectroscopy A X P : 2002.06780

Development of novel silicon sensors with high time and spatial resolution

“…The sensors we have tested at the beam is listed in Table 1 [3]. Some sensors are designed as Avalanche Photo-Diodes (APDs) which are used for optical photon measurements with avalanche gain.…”