Performance study of indigenously developed double sided silicon strip detector with charged particles

Position sensitive segmented silicon detectors in the form of strips or pixels are being widely used in high energy particle physics and nuclear physics experiments. Considering the requirement of nuclear physics experiments in India and the GASPARD Experiment at the upcoming SPIRAL2 facility at GANIL, France, Electronics Division (ED), BARC initiated the indigenous development of large area (∼ 40 cm² ) double sided silicon strip detectors (DSSD). As per the specifications provided by Nuclear Physics Division (NPD), BARC, the detectors were designed (64 strips with a pitch of 0.9 mm) and fabricated. The design, fabrication and static characterization details of the indigenously developed DSSDs have been earlier presented. The performance of the DSSDs has been recently studied with charged particles in collaboration with NPD, BARC. The results of this performance study are presented in this paper