Spectroscopic performances of a very large area silicon drift detector

✍ Scribed by Gianluigi Zampa; Alexander Rashevsky; Andrea Vacchi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 81 KB
• Volume: 572
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.200

✦ Synopsis

Silicon drift detectors (SDD) are known to reach extreme performances in spectroscopy applications but these devices have small active area (few cm 2 at most). We are involved in the development of very-large active area SDDs (53 cm 2 ) dedicated to tracking with high position resolution in a very-high particle multiplicity environment. Here we present preliminary experimental results on X-ray spectra measured with front-end electronics optimized for energy resolution.