Silicon drift chamber with extended energy range

Claudio Labanti; Daniele Dal Fiume; Carlo Fiorini; Antonio Longoni; Alessandro Mauri; Francesco Perotti; Elio Rossi; John Buchan Stephen

doi:10.1117/12.409127

13 December 2000 Silicon drift chamber with extended energy range

Claudio Labanti, Daniele Dal Fiume, Carlo Fiorini, Antonio Longoni, Alessandro Mauri, Francesco Perotti, Elio Rossi, John Buchan Stephen

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Proceedings Volume 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409127
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The requirement for future X-ray Astronomy instrumentation to exhibit a combination of good energy resolution and an extended energy range may be fulfilled by the development of a X ray detectors made from coupling a Silicon Drift Chamber (SDC), to a scintillation crystal. We report on such a detector made with an SDC of 3 mm diameter and using a Caesium Iodide [CsI(Tl)] scintillator. The radiation input window is located on the Si side of the assembly so than soft X-rays are directly detected by the SDC. This allows a minimum threshold of about 1 keV at 0 degrees Celsius to be obtained. The Silicon Drift Chamber acts also as a photodiode able to detect the scintillation light produced by the CsI(Tl), thus extending the energy range of such a device up to some MeV. The discrimination of events between these two detection layers is performed by using a pulse shape discriminator in order to differentiate between the different rise times of the collected charge. The detector concept is discussed on the basis of the results already achieved and the future developments foreseen.

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Claudio Labanti, Daniele Dal Fiume, Carlo Fiorini, Antonio Longoni, Alessandro Mauri, Francesco Perotti, Elio Rossi, and John Buchan Stephen "Silicon drift chamber with extended energy range", Proc. SPIE 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, (13 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409127

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