Gas Pixel Detectors for low energy X-ray polarimetry

✍ Scribed by Gloria Spandre

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 670 KB
• Volume: 166
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2006.12.023

✦ Synopsis

Gas Pixel Detectors are position-sensitive proportional counters in which a complete integration between the gas amplification structure and the read-out electronics has been reached. Various generation of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) have been designed in deep submicron CMOS technology to realize a monolithic device which is at the same time the charge collecting electrode and the analog amplifying and charge measuring frontend electronics. The experimental response of a detector with 22060 pixels at 80 µm pitch to polarized and un-polarized X-ray radiation is shown and the application of this device for Astronomical X-ray Polarimetry discussed.