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Title: Beam test measurements of Low Gain Avalanche Detector single pads and arrays for the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
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  1. Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France)
  2. Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States)
  3. Univ. Paris-Diderot (France)
  4. Centro Nacional de Microelectronica, Barcelona (Spain)
  5. Inst. for High Energy Physics (IFAE), Barcelona (Spain)
  6. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  7. Inst. for High Energy Physics (IFAE), Barcelona (Spain); Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  8. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  9. KTH Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
  10. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  11. Univ. of Mainz (Germany)
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For the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC at CERN, ATLAS is considering the addition of a High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) in front of the end cap and forward calorimeters at (z) = 3.5 m and covering the region 2.4 < (Eta) < 4 to help reducing the effect of pile-up. The chosen sensors are arrays of 50 Mu-m thin Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGAD). This paper presents results on single LGAD sensors with a surface area of 1.3x1.3 mm2 and arrays with 2x2 pads with a surface area of 2x2 mm2 or 3x3 mm2 each and different implant doses of the p+ multiplication layer. They are obtained from data collected during a beam test campaign in autumn 2016 with a pion beam of 120 GeV energy at the CERN SPS. In addition to several quantities measured inclusively for each pad, the gain, efficiency and time resolution have been estimated as a function of the position of the incident particle inside the pad by using a beam telescope with a position resolution of few Mu-m. Different methods to measure the time resolution are compared, yielding consistent results. The sensors with a surface area of 1.3x1.3 mm2 have a time resolution of about 40 ps for a gain of 20 and of about 27 ps for a gain of 50 and fulfill the HGTD requirements. Larger sensors have, as expected, a degraded time resolution. All sensors show very good efficiency and time resolution uniformity.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1466604
Report Number(s):
BNL-207963-2018-JAAM
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Journal Name: Journal of Instrumentation Journal Issue: 06 Vol. 13; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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