Time Resolution Studies with Timepix3 Assemblies with Thin Silicon Pixel Sensors

Abstract

Timepix3 is a multi-purpose readout ASIC for hybrid pixel detectors. It can measure time and energy simultaneously by employing time-of-arrival (ToA) and time-over-threshold (ToT) techniques. Both methods are systematically affected by timewalk. In this paper, a method for pixel-by-pixel calibration of the time response is presented. Assemblies of Timepix3 ASICs bump-bonded to thin planar silicon pixel sensors of different thicknesses between 50 um and 150 um are calibrated and characterised in particle beams. For minimum ionising particles, time resolutions down to 0.72 $\pm$ 0.04 ns are achieved.