First results from a multiplexed and massive instrument with sub-electron noise Skipper-CCDs

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Title: First results from a multiplexed and massive instrument with sub-electron noise Skipper-CCDs
Authors: Chierchie, F., Chavez, C. R., Haro, M. Sofo, Moroni, G. Fernandez, Cervantes-Vergara, B. A., Perez, S., Estrada, J., Tiffenberg, J., Uemura, S., Botti, A.
Publication Year: 2022
Collection: Physics (Other)
Subject Terms: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
More Details: We present a new instrument composed of a large number of sub-electron noise Skipper-CCDs operated with a two stage analog multiplexed readout scheme suitable for scaling to thousands of channels. New, thick, $1.35$ Mpix sensors, from a new foundry, are glued into a Multi-Chip Module (MCM) printed circuit board on a ceramic substrate which has 16 sensors each. The instrument, that can hold up-to 16 MCMs, a total of 256 Skipper-CCD sensors (called a Super-Module with $\approx 130$ grams of active mass and $346$ Mpix), is part of the R$\&$D effort of the OSCURA experiment which will have $\approx 94$ super-modules. Experimental results with $10$ MCMs and $160$ Skipper-CCDs sensors are presented in this paper. This is already the largest ever build instrument with single electron sensitivity CCDs using nondestructive readout, both, in terms of active mass and number of channels.
Comment: Corrected minor typos
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/18/01/P01040
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.16418
Accession Number: edsarx.2210.16418
Database: arXiv
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DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/18/01/P01040