Characterization of large area, thick, and segmented silicon detector for electron and proton detection from neutron beta decay experiments in the cold and ultracold energies

The ``Nab'' and ``UCNB'' collaborations have proposed to measure the correlation parameters in neutron $\beta$-decay at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratory, using a novel detector design and electromagnetic spectrometers. Two large area, thick, hexagonal-segmented Silicon detectors containing 128 pixels per detector are going to be used to detect the electron and proton from neutron decay. Both Silicon detectors are connected by magnetic field lines of few Tesla field strength, and set on an electrostatic potential, such that protons can be accelerated up to 30 keV in order to be detected. We report the characterization, operation, proton detection from 15 to 30 keV, total pulse height defect, computation of atomic scattering defect, recombination defect, and evaluation of dead layer for these large area and thick Silicon detectors.