Charge sharing investigation in a Timepix3 (TPX3) detector through ion probing

The phenomenon of charge sharing in pixelated particle detectors and its relationship to a variety of physical parameters is investigated using a Timepix3 (TPX3) detector with a 500 mu m thick silicon sensor. A probing technique is used with H, Li, and C ion beams produced at the Tandem Van de Graaff (VdG) accelerator at the University of Montreal (UdeM), as well as alpha particles from an Am-241 radioactive source, to determine a direct relationship between particle depth and cluster size. Additionally, the primacy of a particle's energy on the determination of its corresponding cluster's size is confirmed.

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The phenomenon of charge sharing in pixelated particle detectors and its relationship to various physical parameters were investigated using a Timepix3 detector with a 500 μm thick silicon sensor. A probing technique was utilized to determine a direct relationship between particle depth and cluster size, and the significance of a particle's energy on its corresponding cluster's size was also confirmed.