A Compensated Design of Thin Silicon Sensors for Extreme Fluences – ComonSens
ComonSens is a Progetto di ricerca di rilevante interesse nazionale (PRIN)
and aims at studying the acceptor and donor removals in n-in-p and p-in-n LGAD sensors.
ComonSens outcomes will be fundamental for the success of the eXFlu-innova project
and will be implemented into the compensated LGAD design.
The ComonSens team:
UniTO:
V. Sola
CNR IOM:
F. Moscatelli
INFN:
L. Anderlini, M. Ferrero
The project is funded by
Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca.
Project duration: 2023 – 2025
Thin Silicon Sensor for Extreme Fluences – eXFlu-innova
The eXFlu-innova project exploits the experience gained from the
eXFlu project and represents the natural continuation.
The idea behind this Blue-Sky activity is to develop a new design of silicon
sensors with internal gain to achieve signal multiplication up to the fluence
of 5x1017 neq/cm2.
To reach the target, a new design of planar silicon sensors
with gain has been proposed and fabricated, exploiting the compensation
of p-n dopants.
More information can be found at this
link.
The eXFlu-innova team:
INFN Torino:
M. Ferrero, S. Giordanengo, R. Mulargia, V. Sola
INFN Perugia:
F. Moscatelli, D. Passeri, A. Morozzi, T. Croci, P. Asenov, A. Fondacci
FBK, Trento:
Weekly meetings are organised among the FBK, Perugia, and Torino groups to simulate, design, and measure
the eXFlu-innova sensors.
eXFlu-innova develops in the framework of the Work Package 13 of
the
AIDAinnova project.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and
Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101004761.
Project duration: 2022 – 2025
Sensori al silicio per fluenze estreme – FLEX
FLEX is a Grant for Internationalization and aims at sharing the experience in the development of planar silicon sensors for extreme fluences among groups which are experts in the field, namely the Torino University (UniTO, Italy) and the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The FLEX team:
UniTO:
R. Mulargia, M. Tornago, V. Sola
JSI:
I. Mandić, G. Kramberger, B. Hiti
The project is funded by
Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
Project duration: 2022 – 2023
Silicon Sensor for Extreme Fluences – eXFlu
Present silicon sensor technology allows to efficiently operate sensors up to 1016 neq/cm2. However, several future applications, such as tracking detectors in high-luminosity and high-energy particle physics experiments, monitors for particle therapy and nuclear fusion reactors, envisage the use of silicon sensors in environments with fluences exceeding 1017 neq/cm2.
The goal of the Silicon Sensor for Extreme Fluences project is to extend the range of operation of silicon detector up to fluences of 5x1017 neq/cm2. The idea behind this radiation tolerance exploits the saturation of radiation damage effects, observed above 5x1015 neq/cm2, in combination with two developments in sensor technology: (i) the use of thin sensors (20-30 µm), intrinsically less affected by radiation than thicker sensors, and (ii) the presence of internal signal multiplication (gain of 5-10), to compensate for the low signals generated in thin active volumes.
The eXFlu team:
INFN Torino:
,
E. Monteil, M. Tornago, V. Sola
FBK, Trento:
M. Boscardin,
G. Borghi
The eXFlu project benefits from the collaboration of the CNR, INFN, and University of Perugia group,
through the participation of P. Asenov, T. Croci, A. Morozzi, F. Moscatelli, and D. Passeri.
Weekly meetings are organised among the FBK, Perugia, and Torino groups to simulate and design the eXFlu sensors.
The project is funded by
INFN CSN5
and it is developed in the framework of the
RD50 Collaboration
at CERN.
Project duration: 2020 – 2022