ALPIDE: The detection efficiency and fake hit rate versus threshold

Scope: PWG
ITS
Energy
cosmic rays
System
cosmic rays
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Figure Caption

The detection efficiency and fake hit rate versus threshold  obtained for non-irradiated ALPIDE sensor and irradiated ALPIDE sensor (2.7 Mrad) at Vbb=-3V  using a 6 GeV/c  pi^{-} beam. For both chips 10 noisy pixels were masked out.

Detail description

Data were obtained for non-irradiated and irradiated ALPIDE sensors at Vbb=-3V using a 6 GeV/c pi^{-} beam  at the Proton Synchrotron at CERN.

TID and NIEL are calculated from the proton flux ( Ekin = 30 MeV).
For 2.7 Mrad we had  a  total fluence of  F= 1.14763e+13   protons cm^{-2}.

NIEL is calculated as    NIEL = D*F        where D is taken from  https://rd50.web.cern.ch/rd50/NIEL/default.html
There one can find that for 30 MeV proton   D/(95 MeV mb ) = 2.346.
This gives the total accumulated NIEL = 2.69e13  1_MeV_neq/cm^{-2}   which we rounded to 2.7e13   1_MeV_neq/cm^{-2}.

TID is calculated  from the formula   TID [krad] =   1.60 E-8 * LET [MeV*cm^2/mg] * F[cm^-2].
where LET for 30 MeV protons in silicon is  1.476E-02 MeV*cm^2/mg   (taken from SRIM).