Characterization of the VEGA ASIC coupled to large area position-sensitive Silicon Drift Detectors
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Low-noise, position-sensitive Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs) are particularly useful for experiments in which a good energy resolution combined with a large sensitive area is required, as in the case of X-ray astronomy space missions and medical applications. This paper presents the experimental characterization of VEGA, a custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) used as the front-end electronics for XDXL-2, a large-area (30.5 cm 2 ) SDD prototype. The ASICs were integrated on a specifically developed PCB hosting also the detector. Results on the ASIC noise performances, both stand-alone and bonded to the large area SDD, are presented and discussed.
Source: Journal of Instrumentation
Authors: R Campana, Y Evangelista, F Fuschino, M Ahangarianabhari, D Macera, G Bertuccio, M Grassi, C Labanti, M Marisaldi, P Malcovati, A Rachevski, G Zampa, N Zampa, L Andreani, G Baldazzi, E Del Monte, Y Favre, M Feroci, F Muleri, I Rashevskaya, A Vacchi, F Ficorella, G Giacomini, A Picciotto, M Zuffa
Institutions: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, National Institute for Astrophysics, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata, Politecnico di Milano, University of Pavia, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, University of Bologna, University of Geneva, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1998393223