Analog and digital electronics for detectors helmuth spieler physics division, lawrence berkeley national laboratory. Acknowledgments special thanks to ron lipton for taking me on as his mentee and. Designs covering many square meters with million of signal channels are now commonplace in highenergy physics and the technology is finding its way into many other fields, ranging from astrophysics to experiments at synchrotron. Today, highly integrated semiconductor detector systems with tens of thousands of. Recently, remarkable progress in semiconductor technology has made it possible to grow many new systems that have never before been available.
In semiconductor detector systems the primary function of the pulse shaper is to improve the signaltonoise ratio. The simplest type of a semiconductor device is the diode see next topic. Helmut spieler, semiconductor detector systems, oxford university press, 2005. Helmuth spieler pinole, california july, 2005 viii. June 10, 2011 silicon detectors tipp 2011 carl haber lbnl 3 suggestions for further reading h. Chapter 9 is entitled why things dont work and most of the chapter concerns grounding and shielding for semiconductor radiation detectors. The art of electronics paul horowitz and winfried hill. Semiconductor detector systems, spieler, 2005 semiconductor radiation detectors, lutz, 1999 resources conferences.
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Introduction to radiation detectors and electronics helmuth spieler 19jan99 lbnl 1 physics 198 spring semester 1999, uc berkeley introduction to radiation detectors and electronics helmuth spieler physics division lawrence berkeley national laboratory email. This short range is a particular issue for measuring radiation inside contaminated pipework in the nuclear industry, for which there is currently no simple method available without cutting the pipes open. Results and conclusion we optimized the system setup. Semiconductor detectors and electronics helmuth spieler physics division lawrence berkeley national laboratory. Holland, lbnl hightemperature process with very effective gettering to actively remove electrically active impurities from detector volume. Physics division, lawrence berkeley national laboratory. Designs covering many square meters with million of. Voltage characteristics of am01 amplifier with short pulse. Spieler 24 report of the task force on the incident of 19th september 2008 at the lhc. This manuscript has been authored by fermi research alliance, llc under contract no. The detection of alpha particles in the field can be challenging due to their short range in air of often only a few centimeters or less. The design warriors guide to fpgas devices, tools and flows autor. The book starts out with basics of solid state and semiconductor physics, such as crystal structure, band structure, and effective mass approximation, including. Silicon drift detectors for synchrotron energy dispersive xray fluorescence spectroscopy sdd for edxrf.
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