Accelerator tests of a position sensitive silicon strip detector

Author

Barbier, L.M. ; Madden, M. ; Singh, S. ; von Rosenvinge, T.T. ; Cummings, A.C. ; Cummings, J. ; Mewaldt, R.A. ; Wilburn, C.

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

2-9 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

1163

Abstract

The authors report on the results of a Bevalac accelerator test of a double-sided, 145 mu m-thick silicon strip detector. This test was a part of a calibration of silicon detectors which are being mapped for use in the NASA WIND spacecraft experiment called EPACT (Energetic Particles: Acceleration, Composition and Transport). The performance of the device was good with each 500- mu m strip individually resolved, with one exception. The noise, dominated by the chip resistors on the mount, was less than 214 mu A. Some evidence of charge leaking from one section of the detector to adjacent sections was observed.<>

Keywords

astronomical instruments; calibration; cosmic ray apparatus; elemental semiconductors; position sensitive particle detectors; semiconductor counters; silicon; solar cosmic ray particles; 145 micron; Bevalac accelerator test; EPACT; Energetic Particles: Acceleration, Composition and Transport; NASA WIND spacecraft; Si detector; calibration; charge leaking; noise; performance; position sensitive Si strip detector; Calibration; Life estimation; NASA; Particle accelerators; Position sensitive particle detectors; Resistors; Silicon; Space vehicles; Strips; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0513-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.259106

Filename

259106