The impact of incorporating shell-corrections to energy loss in silicon
Abstract
Modern silicon tracking detectors based on hybrid or fully integrated CMOS technology are continuing to push to thinner sensors. The ionization energy loss fluctuations in very thin silicon sensors significantly deviates from the Landau distribution. Therefore, we have developed a charge deposition setup that implements the Bichsel straggling function, which accounts for shell-effects. This enhanced simulation is important for comparing with testbeam or collision data with thin sensors as demonstrated by reproducing more realistically the degraded position resolution compared with naïve ionization models based on simple Landau-like fluctuation. Our implementation of the Bichsel model agrees well with the multipurpose photo absorption ionization (PAI) model in Geant4 and is significantly faster. The code is made publicly available as part of the Allpix software package in order to facilitate predictions for new detector designs and comparisons with testbeam data.
- Authors:
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- Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Key Lab. of Particle and Radiation Imaging and Dept. of Engineering Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Physics Division
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Physics Division
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1461879
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1582955
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231; 201606210194
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 899; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Thin silicon detector; Bichsel model; Simulation
Citation Formats
Wang, Fuyue, Dong, Su, Nachman, Benjamin, Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice, and Zeng, Qi. The impact of incorporating shell-corrections to energy loss in silicon. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.04.061.
Wang, Fuyue, Dong, Su, Nachman, Benjamin, Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice, & Zeng, Qi. The impact of incorporating shell-corrections to energy loss in silicon. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.04.061
Wang, Fuyue, Dong, Su, Nachman, Benjamin, Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice, and Zeng, Qi. Mon .
"The impact of incorporating shell-corrections to energy loss in silicon". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.04.061. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461879.
@article{osti_1461879,
title = {The impact of incorporating shell-corrections to energy loss in silicon},
author = {Wang, Fuyue and Dong, Su and Nachman, Benjamin and Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice and Zeng, Qi},
abstractNote = {Modern silicon tracking detectors based on hybrid or fully integrated CMOS technology are continuing to push to thinner sensors. The ionization energy loss fluctuations in very thin silicon sensors significantly deviates from the Landau distribution. Therefore, we have developed a charge deposition setup that implements the Bichsel straggling function, which accounts for shell-effects. This enhanced simulation is important for comparing with testbeam or collision data with thin sensors as demonstrated by reproducing more realistically the degraded position resolution compared with naïve ionization models based on simple Landau-like fluctuation. Our implementation of the Bichsel model agrees well with the multipurpose photo absorption ionization (PAI) model in Geant4 and is significantly faster. The code is made publicly available as part of the Allpix software package in order to facilitate predictions for new detector designs and comparisons with testbeam data.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2018.04.061},
journal = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},
number = C,
volume = 899,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {5}
}
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Figure 1: Schematic diagrams of the energy deposition inside a pixel module using the EMstandard (left) and the Bichsel model (right).
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