Pixel Detectors for Charged Particles

TL;DR

This paper reviews the latest developments in pixel detectors used for charged particle tracking and vertexing, highlighting advancements for collider experiments like the LHC, superLHC, RHIC, and superBelle, including hybrid and monolithic technologies.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of current pixel detector technologies, focusing on hybrid and monolithic designs for high-energy physics applications.

Findings

Hybrid pixel detectors for superLHC face radiation and rate challenges.

Monolithic active pixel sensors like MAPS and DEPFET are advancing for various collider experiments.

The review summarizes technological progress and future directions in pixel detector development.

Abstract

Pixel Detectors, as the current technology of choice for the innermost vertex detection, have reached a stage at which large detectors have been built for the LHC experiments and a new era of developments, both for hybrid and for monolithic or semi-monolithic pixel detectors is in full swing. This is largely driven by the requirements of the upgrade programme for the superLHC and by other collider experiments which plan to use monolithic pixel detectors for the first time. A review on current pixel detector developments for particle tracking and vertexing is given, comprising hybrid pixel detectors for superLHC with its own challenges in radiation and rate, as well as on monolithic, so-called active pixel detectors, including MAPS and DEPFET pixels for RHIC and superBelle.