Speaker
Mr
Nicholas Stoffle
(University of Houston)
Description
The TimePix readout chip is a hybrid pixel detector with over 65k independent pixel elements. Each pixel contains its own circuitry for charge collection, counting logic, and readout. When coupled with a Silicon detector layer, the Timepix chip is capable of measuring the charge, and thus energy, deposited in the Silicon. Measurements using a NIST traceable 137Cs gamma source have been made at Johnson Space Center using such a Si Timepix detector, and this data is compared to simulations of energy deposition in the Si layer carried out using FLUKA.
Primary author
Mr
Nicholas Stoffle
(University of Houston)
Co-authors
Dr
Anton Empl
(University of Arkansas)
Mr
Edward Semones
(NASA Johnson Space Center)
Prof.
Lawrence Pinsky
(University of Houston)
