Software Implementation for the Characterization of Silicon Pixel Detectors

Pixel and Silicon-strip detectors are now a fundamental component for the detection, identification, and characterization of particles in nuclear and particle physics. They are used for beam diagnostics, for measurements of energy lost by electrons, for full-energy measurements of alphas and protons and heavy nuclei. The pixel and strip detectors are usually the most complex, sensitive, and expensive system in multi-million dollar detectors such as the ones in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven. This poster describes the development of a characterization station for pixel and strip detectors in clean room at Texas A\&M University. As a first step we describe the quantities to be measured for a full characterization of the pixel sensor, the identification of the needed electronic circuitry and the logic behind the control and readout of the system as a whole. The second stage shows the analysis of the obtained results from a set of next-generation radiation-hard pixel sensors.