Digital pulse-shape analysis with a TRACE early silicon prototype

[EN] A highly segmented silicon-pad detector prototype has been tested to explore the performance of the digital pulse shape analysis in the discrimination of the particles reaching the silicon detector. For the first time a 200 tun thin silicon detector, grown using an ordinary floating zone technique, has been shown to exhibit a level discrimination thanks to the fine segmentation. Light-charged particles down to few MeV have been separated, including their punch-through. A coaxial HPGe detector in time coincidence has further confirmed the quality of the particle discrimination. K.; 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reservedThis work has been supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) under the project FIRB/08-RBFR08RDKZ and partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) under projects FPA2007-63074 (FINURA) and INGENIO-2010 (CPAN). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under Grant Agreement no. 262010 ENSAR. One of the authors (V.V. P.) acknowledges the financial support through the INSPIRE faculty program, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, in carrying out these investigations. The authors would like to extend appreciation to the technical staff of LNL Tandem for their assistance during the experiment and the local members of the EXOTIC project for their support in the preparation of the experimental setupMengoni, D.; Dueñas, JA.; Assie, M.; Boiano, C.; John, PR.; Aliaga, RJ.; Beaumel, D.... (2014). Digital pulse-shape analysis with a TRACE early silicon prototype. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 764:241-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.07.05424124676