Charge sharing investigation in a Timepix3 (TPX3) detector through ion probing

Abstract

Abstract The phenomenon of charge sharing in pixelated particle detectors and its relationship to a variety of physical parameters is investigated using a Timepix3 (TPX3) detector with a 500 μm thick silicon sensor. A probing technique is used with H, Li, and C ion beams produced at the Tandem Van de Graaff (VdG) accelerator at the University of Montreal (UdeM), as well as alpha particles from an 241Am radioactive source, to determine a direct relationship between particle depth and cluster size. Additionally, the primacy of a particle's energy on the determination of its corresponding cluster's size is confirmed.