Design and Simulation of TiN-Based Suspended Meander Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) for Visible and Near-Infrared Astronomy ApplicationsWe report on simulations of a novel design of optical titanium nitride (TiN)- based Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) in order to improve their response to optical photons. We propose to separate…Maria Appavou, Lucas Ribeiro, Paul Nicaise et al.·May 5, 2024SaveLearn
Gain suppression study on LGADs at the CENPA tandem acceleratorLow-Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are a type of thin silicon detector with a highly doped gain layer that provides moderate internal signal amplification. One recent challenge in the use of LGADs,…S. Braun, Q. Buat, J. Ding et al.·May 4, 2024SaveLearn
High Dynamic Range Scanning Tunneling MicroscopyWe increase the dynamical range of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) by actively subtracting dominant current-harmonics generated by nonlinearities in the current-voltage characteristics that…Ajla Karić, Carolina A Marques, Fabian Donat Natterer·May 2, 2024SaveLearn
Characterization of Silicon Photomultiplier Photon Detection Efficiency at Liquid Nitrogen TemperatureThe detection of individual photons at cryogenic temperatures is of interest to many experiments searching for physics beyond the Standard Model. Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are often deployed…S. Borden, J. A. Detwiler, W. Pettus et al.·May 2, 2024SaveLearn
The Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LZ Calibration SystemsLUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a tonne-scale experiment searching for direct dark matter interactions and other rare events. It is located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South…J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi et al.·May 2, 2024SaveLearn
Development of the strip LGAD detector with double-end readout for future collidersThe Low-Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) is a new silicon detector and holds wide application prospects in particle physics experiments due to its excellent timing resolution. The LGAD with a pixel size…Weiyi Sun, Mengzhao Li, Tianyuan Zhang et al.·May 2, 2024SaveLearn
Novel method for in-situ drift velocity measurement in large volume TPCs: the Geometry Reference Chamber of the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERNThis paper presents a novel method for low maintenance, low ambiguity in-situ drift velocity monitoring in large volume Time Projection Chambers (TPCs). The method was developed and deployed for the…Andras Laszlo, Adam Gera, Gergo Hamar et al.·May 2, 2024SaveLearn
The science and technology of liquid argon detectorsLiquid argon detectors are ubiquitous in particle, astroparticle, and applied physics. They reached an unprecedented level of maturity thanks to more than 20 years of R&D and the operation of…W. M. Bonivento, F. Terranova·May 2, 2024SaveLearn
Development of a Bi-solvent Liquid Scintillator with Slow Light EmissionOne of the most promising approaches for the next generation of neutrino experiments is the realization of large hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation detectors made possible by recent innovations in…Hans Th. J. Steiger, Matthias Raphael Stock, Manuel Böhles et al.·May 2, 2024SaveLearn
Beam-induced backgrounds measured in the ATLAS detector during local gas injection into the LHC beam vacuumInelastic beam-gas collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), within a few hundred metres of the ATLAS experiment, are known to give the dominant contribution to beam backgrounds. These are…ATLAS Collaboration·Apr 30, 2024SaveLearn
Perspectives of a single-anode cylindrical chamber operating in ionization mode and high gas pressureAs part of the R2D2 (Rare Decays with Radial Detector) R&D, the use of a gas detector with a spherical or cylindrical cathode, equipped with a single anode and operating at high pressure, was studied…R. Bouet, J. Busto, V. Cecchini et al.·Apr 30, 2024SaveLearn
Aluminum nuclear demagnetization refrigerator for powerful continuous coolingMany laboratories routinely cool samples to 10 mK, but relatively few can cool condensed matter below 1 mK. Easy access to the microkelvin range would propel fields such as quantum sensors and…Matthias Raba, Sébastien Triqueneaux, James Butterworth et al.·Apr 30, 2024SaveLearn
A new hybrid gadolinium nanoparticles-loaded polymeric material for neutron detection in rare event searchesExperiments aimed at direct searches for WIMP dark matter require highly effective reduction of backgrounds and control of any residual radioactive contamination. In particular, neutrons interacting…20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari et al.·Apr 29, 2024SaveLearn
Evidence for polyimide redeposition and possible correlation with sparks in Gas Electron Multipliers working in CF4 mixturesResearch on aging processes of Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) is important to obtain insights on how to increase the detector's longevity, stability, and performance, as highlighted in the latest…Thiago B. Saramela, Tiago F. Silva, Marco Bregant et al.·Apr 29, 2024SaveLearn
Parameter optimization of Josephson parametric amplifiers using a heuristic search algorithm for axion haloscope searchThe cavity haloscope is among the most widely adopted experimental platforms designed to detect dark matter axions with its principle relying on the conversion of axions into microwave photons in the…Younggeun Kim, Junu Jeong, SungWoo Youn et al.·Apr 29, 2024SaveLearn
DEDALO: Device for Enhanced Dust Analyses with Light Obscuration sensorsInstruments based on light obscuration sensors are widely used for measuring the size distribution of insoluble sub-visible particles in liquid suspensions, being fast and suitable for in situ and…L. Teruzzi, L. Cremonesi, M. A. C. Potenza·Apr 28, 2024SaveLearn
BUFF: Boosted Decision Tree based Ultra-Fast Flow matchingTabular data stands out as one of the most frequently encountered types in high energy physics. Unlike commonly homogeneous data such as pixelated images, simulating high-dimensional tabular data and…Cheng Jiang, Sitian Qian, Huilin Qu·Apr 28, 2024SaveLearn
Water Cherenkov muon veto for the COSINUS experiment: design and simulation optimizationCOSINUS is a dark matter (DM) direct search experiment that uses sodium iodide (NaI) crystals as cryogenic calorimeters. Thanks to the low nuclear recoil energy threshold and event-by-event…G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, M. Cababie et al.·Apr 25, 2024SaveLearn
Reciprocity in laser ultrasound revisited: Is wavefield characterisation by scanning laser excitation strictly reciprocal to that by scanning laser detection?The common believe about strict measurement reciprocity between scanning laser detection and scanning laser excitation is disproved by a simple experiment. Nevertheless, a deeper study based on the…Bernd Köhler, Yuui Amano, Frank Schubert et al.·Apr 25, 2024SaveLearn
Microwave Technologies in Experiments for Detection of Dark Matter AxionsThis article reviews different microwave technologies used in dark matter axion detection experiments with resonant cavities. The general concepts of the experiment are presented and ways to optimize…Jose R. Navarro-Madrid, Jose María García-Barceló, Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo·Apr 24, 2024SaveLearn
Timing resolution performance of Timepix4 bump-bonded assembliesThe timing performance of the Timepix4 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) bump-bonded to a 100\;μm thick n-on-p silicon sensor is presented. A picosecond pulsed infrared…Riccardo Bolzonella, Jerome Alexandre Alozy, Rafael Ballabriga et al.·Apr 23, 2024SaveLearn
Frequency-offset separated oscillatory fields technique applied to neutronsThe novel technique of frequency-offset separated oscillatory fields (FOSOF) has been originally proposed as a modification to Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields. It has recently been…Anastasio Fratangelo, Philipp Heil, Christine Klauser et al.·Apr 23, 2024SaveLearn
Lidar-based gas analyzer for remote sensing of atmospheric methaneEnhancement of methane emission measurement techniques is necessary to address the need for greenhouse gas emissions monitoring. Here we introduce a gas analyzer designed for remote sensing of…Viacheslav Meshcherinov, Viktor Kazakov, Maxim Spiridonov et al.·Apr 23, 2024SaveLearn
Graph Neural Network-Based Pipeline for Track Finding in the Velo at LHCbOver the next decade, increases in instantaneous luminosity and detector granularity will amplify the amount of data that has to be analysed by high-energy physics experiments, whether in real time…Anthony Correia, Fotis I. Giasemis, Nabil Garroum et al.·Apr 23, 2024SaveLearn
Optimization of GEM detectors for applications in X-ray fluorescence imagingIn this work a set of simulations that aim at the optimization of gaseous detectors for applications in X-ray fluorescence imaging in the energy range of 3 -- 30keV is presented. By studying the…Geovane G. A. de Souza, Hugo Natal da Luz, Marco Bregant·Apr 23, 2024SaveLearn