Silicon detectors and associated electronics oriented to calorimetry

Abstract In electromagnetic calorimetry large-size silicon detectors, employing relatively low-resistivity material, can be used. The improvement in the leakage current performance of these devices enables average depleted layers of widths varying by less than 0.3%. The low noise large capacitance oriented electronics provides a good signal-to-noise ratio for single relativistic particles traversing such a large area detector.