A new readout structure for radiation silicon strip detectors

Both silicon strip detectors and CCD detectors are commonly used to detect elementary particles in high energy physics. Strip detectors have a large time resolution but are difficult to read out because of the large number of bondings. CCD detectors have an elegant readout scheme but a low readout duty cycle. This paper presents a new method for reading out microstrip detectors with the aid of CCD´s, making use of junction CCD´s and their unique input structure. It yields a large time resolution, consumes little chip area and overcomes the problems of the wiring and amplification of single strip detectors. Initial experiments have demonstrated the feasibility of this method.