DECAL: A Reconfigurable Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor for Tracking and Calorimetry in a 180 nm Image Sensor Process

Philip Patrick Allport; Seddik Benhammadi; Robert Ross Bosley; Jens Dopke; Lucian Fasselt; Samuel Flynn; Laura Gonella; Nicola Guerrini; Cigdem Issever; Kostas Nikolopoulos; Ioannis Kopsalis; Peter Philips; Tony Price; Iain Sedgwick; Giulio Villani; Matt Warren; Nigel Watson; Hannsjorg Weber; Alasdair Winter; Fergus Wilson; Steven Worm; Zhige Zhang

doi:10.3390/s22186848

DECAL: A Reconfigurable Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor for Tracking and Calorimetry in a 180 nm Image Sensor Process

Philip Patrick Allport, Seddik Benhammadi, Robert Ross Bosley, Jens Dopke, Lucian Fasselt, Samuel Flynn, Laura Gonella, Nicola Guerrini, Cigdem Issever, Kostas Nikolopoulos, Ioannis Kopsalis, Peter Philips, Tony Price, Iain Sedgwick^*, Giulio Villani, Matt Warren, Nigel Watson, Hannsjorg Weber, Alasdair Winter, Fergus WilsonSteven Worm, Zhige Zhang

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In this paper, we describe DECAL, a prototype Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) device designed to demonstrate the feasibility of both digital calorimetry and reconfigurability in ASICs for particle physics. The goal of this architecture is to help reduce the development and manufacturing costs of detectors for future colliders by developing a chip that can operate both as a digital silicon calorimeter and a tracking chip. The prototype sensor consists of a matrix of 64 × 64 55 (Formula presented.) m pixels, and provides a readout at 40 MHz of the number of particles which have struck the matrix in the preceding 25 ns. It can be configured to report this as a total sum across the sensor (equivalent to the pad of an analogue calorimeter) or the sum per column (equivalent to a traditional strip detector). The design and operation of the sensor are described, and the results of chip characterisation are reported and compared to simulations.

Original language	English
Article number	6848
Number of pages	26
Journal	Sensors
Volume	22
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186848
Publication status	Published - 10 Sept 2022

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Keywords

calorimetry
CMOS
ECAL
MAPS
particle physics
tracking

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Analytical Chemistry
Information Systems
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Biochemistry
Instrumentation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Birmingham Experimental Particle Physics Capital Equipment Round 2016
Allport, P., Goudzovski, E., Watson, A., Hawkes, C., Watson, N., Lazzeroni, C., Sergi, A., Gonella, L., Newman, P., Worm, S., Charlton, D., Watson, M. & Nikolopoulos, K.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/01/17 → 30/09/19
Project: Research Councils
Development of a Reconfigurable Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor in Radiation-hard Technology for Outer Tracking and Digital Electromagnetic Calorimetry
Allport, P., Gonella, L., Newman, P., Nikolopoulos, K. & Watson, N.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/06/16 → 2/11/18
Project: Research Councils
Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2015 - Capital Equipment
Newman, P., Allport, P., Charlton, D., Goudzovski, E., Hawkes, C., Lazzeroni, C., Nikolopoulos, K., Sergi, A., Watkins, P., Watson, A., Watson, M., Watson, N. & Wilson, J.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/10/15 → 31/03/16
Project: Research Councils
Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2015
Newman, P., Goudzovski, E., Charlton, D., Allport, P., Watson, A., Watson, M., Sergi, A., Lazzeroni, C., Hawkes, C., Nikolopoulos, K. & Watson, N.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/10/15 → 31/03/20
Project: Research Councils
H2020_RIA_AIDA-2020
Houghton, H. & Parker, D.
European Commission
1/05/15 → 30/04/20
Project: EU

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Allport, P. P., Benhammadi, S., Bosley, R. R., Dopke, J., Fasselt, L., Flynn, S., Gonella, L., Guerrini, N., Issever, C., Nikolopoulos, K., Kopsalis, I., Philips, P., Price, T., Sedgwick, I., Villani, G., Warren, M., Watson, N., Weber, H., Winter, A., ... Zhang, Z. (2022). DECAL: A Reconfigurable Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor for Tracking and Calorimetry in a 180 nm Image Sensor Process. Sensors, 22(18), Article 6848. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186848

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Birmingham Experimental Particle Physics Capital Equipment Round 2016

Development of a Reconfigurable Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor in Radiation-hard Technology for Outer Tracking and Digital Electromagnetic Calorimetry

Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2015 - Capital Equipment

Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2015

H2020_RIA_AIDA-2020

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