Characterisation of the high dynamic range Large Pixel Detector (LPD) and its use at X-ray free electron laser sources

Veale, M. C.; Adkin, P.; Booker, P.; Coughlan, J.; French, M. J.; Hart, M.; Nicholls, T.; Schneider, A.; Seller, P.; Pape, I.; Sawhney, K.; Carini, G. A.; Hart, P. A.

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Title: Characterisation of the high dynamic range Large Pixel Detector (LPD) and its use at X-ray free electron laser sources

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The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have delivered the Large Pixel Detector (LPD) for MHz frame rate imaging at the European XFEL. The detector system has an active area of 0.5 m × 0.5 m and consists of a million pixels on a 500 μm pitch. Sensors have been produced from 500 μm thick Hammamatsu silicon tiles that have been bump bonded to the readout ASIC using a silver epoxy and gold stud technique. Each pixel of the detector system is capable of measuring 10⁵ 12 keV photons per image readout at 4.5 MHz. In this paper results from the testing of these detectors at the Diamond Light Source and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) are presented. As a result, the performance of the detector in terms of linearity, spatial uniformity and the performance of the different ASIC gain stages is characterised.

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Veale, M. C. ^[1]; Adkin, P. ^[1]; Booker, P. ^[1]; Coughlan, J. ^[1]; French, M. J. ^[1]; Hart, M. ^[1]; Nicholls, T. ^[1]; Schneider, A. ^[1]; Seller, P. ^[1]; Pape, I. ^[2]; Sawhney, K. ^[2]; Carini, G. A. ^[3]; Hart, P. A. ^[3]

Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot (United Kingdom)
Diamond Light Source, Didcot (United Kingdom)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: 2017-12-04

Research Org.:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1418008

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Instrumentation

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Electronic detector readout concepts (solid-state); Instrumentation for FEL; X-ray detectors; Large detector-systems performance

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                    Veale, M. C., Adkin, P., Booker, P., Coughlan, J., French, M. J., Hart, M., Nicholls, T., Schneider, A., Seller, P., Pape, I., Sawhney, K., Carini, G. A., and Hart, P. A. Characterisation of the high dynamic range Large Pixel Detector (LPD) and its use at X-ray free electron laser sources.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
Web.  doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/P12003.

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                    Veale, M. C., Adkin, P., Booker, P., Coughlan, J., French, M. J., Hart, M., Nicholls, T., Schneider, A., Seller, P., Pape, I., Sawhney, K., Carini, G. A., & Hart, P. A. Characterisation of the high dynamic range Large Pixel Detector (LPD) and its use at X-ray free electron laser sources.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/P12003

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                    Veale, M. C., Adkin, P., Booker, P., Coughlan, J., French, M. J., Hart, M., Nicholls, T., Schneider, A., Seller, P., Pape, I., Sawhney, K., Carini, G. A., and Hart, P. A. Mon .  
"Characterisation of the high dynamic range Large Pixel Detector (LPD) and its use at X-ray free electron laser sources".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/P12003.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1418008.

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@article{osti_1418008,

  title        = {Characterisation of the high dynamic range Large Pixel Detector (LPD) and its use at X-ray free electron laser sources},

  author       = {Veale, M. C. and Adkin, P. and Booker, P. and Coughlan, J. and French, M. J. and Hart, M. and Nicholls, T. and Schneider, A. and Seller, P. and Pape, I. and Sawhney, K. and Carini, G. A. and Hart, P. A.},

  abstractNote = {The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have delivered the Large Pixel Detector (LPD) for MHz frame rate imaging at the European XFEL. The detector system has an active area of 0.5 m × 0.5 m and consists of a million pixels on a 500 μm pitch. Sensors have been produced from 500 μm thick Hammamatsu silicon tiles that have been bump bonded to the readout ASIC using a silver epoxy and gold stud technique. Each pixel of the detector system is capable of measuring 105 12 keV photons per image readout at 4.5 MHz. In this paper results from the testing of these detectors at the Diamond Light Source and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) are presented. As a result, the performance of the detector in terms of linearity, spatial uniformity and the performance of the different ASIC gain stages is characterised.},

  doi          = {10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/P12003},

  journal      = {Journal of Instrumentation},

  number       = 12,

  volume       = 12,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2017},

  month        = {12}

}

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