Effect of large-angle incidence on particle identification performance for light-charged ($Z \le 2$) particles by pulse shape analysis with a pad-type nTD silicon detector

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Title: Effect of large-angle incidence on particle identification performance for light-charged ($Z \le 2$) particles by pulse shape analysis with a pad-type nTD silicon detector
Authors: Kawase, Shoichiro, Murota, Takuya, Fukuda, Hiroya, Oishi, Masaya, Kawata, Teppei, Kitafuji, Kentaro, Manabe, Seiya, Watanabe, Yukinobu, Nishibata, Hiroki, Go, Shintaro, Kai, Tamito, Nagata, Yuto, Muto, Taiga, Ishibashi, Yuichi, Niikura, Megumi, Suzuki, Daisuke, Matsuzaki, Teiichiro, Ishida, Katsuhiko, Mizuno, Rurie, Kitamura, Noritaka
Source: Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 1059 (2024) 168984
Publication Year: 2023
Collection: Physics (Other)
Subject Terms: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
More Details: In recent years, particle discrimination methods based on digital waveform analysis techniques for neutron-transmutation-doped silicon (nTD-Si) detectors have become widely used for the identification of low-energy charged particles. Although the particle discrimination capability of this method has been well demonstrated for small incident angles, the particle discrimination performance may be affected by changes in the detector response when the detector is moved closer to the charged particle source and the incident position distribution and incident angle distribution to the detector become wide. In this study, we performed a beam test for particle discrimination in light-charged ($Z \le 2$) particles using the digital waveform analysis method with a pad-type nTD-Si detector and investigated the dependence of the performance of the particle discrimination on the incident position and incident angle. As the incident angle increased, a decrease in the maximum current was observed, which was sufficient to affect the performance of the particle discrimination. This decrease can be expressed as a function of the penetration depth of the charged particles into the detector, which varies for each nuclide.
Comment: 8 pages, 13 figures
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2023.168984
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16433
Accession Number: edsarx.2308.16433
Database: arXiv