Sensors (Aug 2023)
Potentialities of CdZnTe Quasi-Hemispherical Detectors for Hard X-ray Spectroscopy of Kaonic Atoms at the DAΦNE Collider
- Leonardo Abbene,
- Antonino Buttacavoli,
- Fabio Principato,
- Gaetano Gerardi,
- Manuele Bettelli,
- Andrea Zappettini,
- Massimiliano Bazzi,
- Mario Bragadireanu,
- Michael Cargnelli,
- Marco Carminati,
- Alberto Clozza,
- Griseld Deda,
- Raffaele Del Grande,
- Luca De Paolis,
- Laura Fabbietti,
- Carlo Fiorini,
- Carlo Guaraldo,
- Mihail Iliescu,
- Misahiko Iwasaki,
- Aleksander Khreptak,
- Simone Manti,
- Johann Marton,
- Marco Miliucci,
- Pawel Moskal,
- Fabrizio Napolitano,
- Szymon Niedźwiecki,
- Hiroaky Ohnishi,
- Kristian Piscicchia,
- Yuta Sada,
- Francesco Sgaramella,
- Hexi Shi,
- Michalł Silarski,
- Diana Laura Sirghi,
- Florin Sirghi,
- Magdalena Skurzok,
- Antonio Spallone,
- Kairo Toho,
- Marlene Tüchler,
- Oton Vazquez Doce,
- Chihiro Yoshida,
- Johannes Zmeskal,
- Alessandro Scordo,
- Catalina Curceanu
Affiliations
- Leonardo Abbene
- Department of Physics and Chemistry (DiFC)—Emilio Segrè, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 18, 90128 Palermo, Italy
- Antonino Buttacavoli
- Department of Physics and Chemistry (DiFC)—Emilio Segrè, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 18, 90128 Palermo, Italy
- Fabio Principato
- Department of Physics and Chemistry (DiFC)—Emilio Segrè, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 18, 90128 Palermo, Italy
- Gaetano Gerardi
- Department of Physics and Chemistry (DiFC)—Emilio Segrè, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 18, 90128 Palermo, Italy
- Manuele Bettelli
- Istituto Materiali per l’Elettronica e il Magnetismo, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IMEM/CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43100 Parma, Italy
- Andrea Zappettini
- Istituto Materiali per l’Elettronica e il Magnetismo, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IMEM/CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43100 Parma, Italy
- Massimiliano Bazzi
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Mario Bragadireanu
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Str. Atomistilor No. 407, 077125 Măgurele, Romania
- Michael Cargnelli
- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Marco Carminati
- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Alberto Clozza
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Griseld Deda
- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Raffaele Del Grande
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Luca De Paolis
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Laura Fabbietti
- Physik Department E62, Technische Universität Münnchen, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Carlo Fiorini
- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Carlo Guaraldo
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Mihail Iliescu
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Misahiko Iwasaki
- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako, Tokyo 351-0198, Japan
- Aleksander Khreptak
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Simone Manti
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Johann Marton
- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Marco Miliucci
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Pawel Moskal
- Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Krakow, Poland
- Fabrizio Napolitano
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Szymon Niedźwiecki
- Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Krakow, Poland
- Hiroaky Ohnishi
- Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH), Tohoku University, Sendai 982-0826, Japan
- Kristian Piscicchia
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Yuta Sada
- Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH), Tohoku University, Sendai 982-0826, Japan
- Francesco Sgaramella
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Hexi Shi
- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Michalł Silarski
- Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Krakow, Poland
- Diana Laura Sirghi
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Florin Sirghi
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Magdalena Skurzok
- Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Krakow, Poland
- Antonio Spallone
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Kairo Toho
- Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH), Tohoku University, Sendai 982-0826, Japan
- Marlene Tüchler
- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Oton Vazquez Doce
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Chihiro Yoshida
- Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH), Tohoku University, Sendai 982-0826, Japan
- Johannes Zmeskal
- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Alessandro Scordo
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Catalina Curceanu
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s23177328
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 23,
no. 17
p. 7328
Abstract
Kaonic atom X-ray spectroscopy is a consolidated technique for investigations on the physics of strong kaon–nucleus/nucleon interaction. Several experiments have been conducted regarding the measurement of soft X-ray emission (20 keV) from intermediate kaonic atoms (carbon, aluminum, and sulfur). In this context, we investigated cadmium–zinc–telluride (CdZnTe or CZT) detectors, which have recently demonstrated high-resolution capabilities for hard X-ray and gamma-ray detection. A demonstrator prototype based on a new cadmium–zinc–telluride quasi-hemispherical detector and custom digital pulse processing electronics was developed. The detector covered a detection area of 1 cm2 with a single readout channel and interesting room-temperature performance with energy resolution of 4.4% (2.6 keV), 3% (3.7 keV), and 1.4% (9.3 keV) FWHM at 59.5, 122.1, and 662 keV, respectively. The results from X-ray measurements at the DAΦNE collider at the INFN National Laboratories of Frascati (Italy) are also presented with particular attention to the effects and rejection of electromagnetic and hadronic background.
Keywords
- CdZnTe detectors
- quasi-hemispherical detectors
- compound semiconductor detectors
- hard X-ray spectroscopy
- kaonic atoms
- digital pulse processing electronics
