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Study of Geiger avalanche photo-diodes (GAPDs) applications to pixel tracking detectors

✍ Scribed by E. Graugés; A. Comerma; L. Garrido; D. Gascón; J. Trenado; A. Diéguez; A. Vilà; A. Arbat; L. Freixas; S. Hidalgo; P. Fernández; D. Flores; M. Lozano


Book ID
103858120
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
97 KB
Volume
617
Category
Article
ISSN
0168-9002

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✦ Synopsis


The effort at the UB and CNM to study the feasibility of using standard CMOS technology Geiger avalanche photo-diodes (GAPDs) for pixel tracking detectors is reported. Generally APDs are used as photon detector devices. The possibility of using APDs in Geiger mode (that is reverse-biased above breakdown) for direct particle detection is the purpose of the ongoing R&D program, which tries to exploit GAPDs' features suitable for particle detection.