 | INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy |  | October 20-29, 2015 |
The Solid State detectors Lab proposes various technologies for their realization and shows the construction and working principles of real detector systems. The activity is structured as follow:
Solid State Detector Systems: construction, working principles and characterization
Solid State particle detectors are broadly used in atomic, nuclear and high energy physics experiments, as tracking detectors or for high-precision spectroscopy measurements. Due to their high rate capabilities, extremely low material budget and microscopic pixel sizes, these detectors are more and more used in experiments where both the particle rate and the required precision of the impact point is very high, like the LHC experiments. On the other hand, the Solid State Detectors are able to perform very high precision X-ray spectroscopic measurements, and are used in many atomic, nuclear and particle physics experiments, as well as in many other fields, such as medicine, biology and industry.
The aim of the exercise is a hand-on activity on two different types of detectors: the MAPS (Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors) and the SDD (Silicon Drift Detectors) for spectroscopic use. The laboratory will give an overview of the construction process for these detector systems including a characterization using the Beam Test Facility with an electron beam of ~500 MeV (for the MAPS detectors) and an X-ray tube and/or radioactive sources in the laboratory (for the SDD detectors).
