Characterising and tackling thermally induced zero-drift in displacement measuring interferometry using temperature-controlled enclosureOur research efforts in displacement measurement interferometry focused on long-term drifts initiated an extended experimental investigation in the interferometric assemblies of our design. We aimed…Simon Rerucha, Miroslava Hola, Ondrej Cip et al.·Apr 9, 2024SaveLearn
Differential fuzz testing to detect tampering in sensor systems and its application to arms control authenticationIn future nuclear arms control treaties, it will be necessary to authenticate the hardware and software components of verification measurement systems, i.e., to ensure these systems are functioning…Jayson R Vavrek, Luozhong Zhou, Joshua Boverhof et al.·Apr 9, 2024SaveLearn
Theory and mitigation of motional eddy current in high-field eddy current shieldingEddy current shielding by a Faraday cage is an effective way to shield alternating-current (AC) magnetic fields in scientific instrumentation. In a strong static magnetic field, however, the eddy…Seung-Kyun Lee, Yihe Hua·Apr 6, 2024SaveLearn
Estimating the Energy Threshold of Phonon-mediated Superconducting Qubit Detectors Operated in an Energy-Relaxation Sensing SchemeIn recent years, the lack of a conclusive detection of WIMP dark matter at the 10 GeV/c2 mass scale and above has encouraged development of low-threshold detector technology aimed at probing…R. Linehan, I. Hernandez, D. J. Temples et al.·Apr 5, 2024SaveLearn
The CCube reconstruction algorithm for the SoLid experimentThe SoLid experiment is a very-short-baseline experiment aimed at searching for nuclear reactor-produced active to sterile antineutrino oscillations. The detection principle is based on the pairing…The SoLid collaboration·Apr 4, 2024SaveLearn
ZynqMP-based board-management mezzanines for Serenity ATCA-bladesIn the context of the CMS Phase-2 tracker back-end processing system, two mezzanines based on the Zynq Ultrascale+ Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) device have been developed to serve as…T. Mehner, L. E. Ardila-Perez, M. N. Balzer et al.·Apr 4, 2024SaveLearn
Full-Scale Readout Electronics for the ECHo-100k ExperimentRecent advances in the development of cryogenic particle detectors such as magnetic microcalorimeters (MMCs) allow the fabrication of sensor arrays with an increasing number of pixels. Since these…T. Muscheid, R. Gartmann, N. Karcher et al.·Apr 3, 2024SaveLearn
DoubleTES detectors to investigate the CRESST low energy background: results from above-ground prototypesIn recent times, the sensitivity of low-mass direct dark matter searches has been limited by unknown low energy backgrounds close to the energy threshold of the experiments known as the low energy…G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato et al.·Apr 3, 2024SaveLearn
A thermionic electron gun to characterize silicon drift detectors with electronsThe TRISTAN detector is a new detector for electron spectroscopy at the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment. The semiconductor detector utilizes the silicon drift detector technology and…Korbinian Urban, Matteo Biassoni, Marco Carminati et al.·Apr 2, 2024SaveLearn
Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experimentThe Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) experiment (NEON) aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering~() in a NaI(Tl) crystal using reactor anti-electron…J. J. Choi, E. J. Jeon, J. Y. Kim et al.·Apr 2, 2024SaveLearn
Beam test of a baseline vertex detector prototype for CEPCThe Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) has been proposed to enable more thorough and precise measurements of the properties of Higgs, W, and Z bosons, as well as to search for new physics. In…Shuqi Li, Tianya Wu, Xinhui Huang et al.·Apr 2, 2024SaveLearn
TOFHIR2: The readout ASIC of the CMS Barrel MIP Timing DetectorThe CMS detector will be upgraded for the HL-LHC to include a MIP Timing Detector (MTD). The MTD will consist of barrel and endcap timing layers, BTL and ETL respectively, providing precision timing…E. Albuquerque, M. Araújo, A. Benaglia et al.·Apr 1, 2024SaveLearn
Continuously tunable uniaxial strain control of van der Waals heterostructure devicesUniaxial strain has been widely used as a powerful tool for investigating and controlling the properties of quantum materials. However, existing strain techniques have so far mostly been limited to…Zhaoyu Liu, Xuetao Ma, John Cenker et al.·Apr 1, 2024SaveLearn
Muon beamtest results of high-density glass scintillator tilesTo achieve the physics goal of precisely measure the Higgs, Z, W bosons and the top quark, future electron-positron colliders require that their detector system has excellent jet energy resolution.…Dejing Du, Yong Liu, Hua Cai et al.·Apr 1, 2024SaveLearn
Measurement of Low Energy Nuclear Recoil Events with the phonon-mediated Voltage-Assisted Hybrid Detector for Rare Event SearchesThe phonon-mediated hybrid detector is made out of a monolithic silicon crystal characterized by two interconnected regions linked through a narrow neck. Operating solely on phonon signal…Sandro Maludze, Mahdi Mirzakhani, William Baker et al.·Mar 31, 2024SaveLearn
Towards CRES-Based Non-destructive Electron Momentum Estimation for the PTOLEMY Relic Neutrino DetectorThe novel electron spectrometry method proposed by the PTOLEMY relic neutrino experiment requires a real-time, non-destructive estimate of the parallel and transverse momentum splits of tritium…Yuno Iwasaki, Andi Tan, Christopher G. Tully·Mar 31, 2024SaveLearn
Muon Track Reconstruction in the Scintillator Phase of SNO+The large depth of the SNO+ experiment (2070 m, 6010 m.w.e.) means that only a few muons per day pass through the detector. However, their high energy causes muon induced backgrounds which can affect…Jasmine Simms·Mar 28, 2024SaveLearn
Calibration of the Scintillation Timing in SNO+ using In-Situ BackgroundsThe SNO+ Collaboration has recently concluded loading its liquid scintillator with PPO, the primary fluor, and the loading of the wavelength shifter, bisMSB, is ongoing. For each stage of the…Rafael Hunt-Stokes·Mar 28, 2024SaveLearn
Pulse Shape Discrimination in JSNS2JSNS2 (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment that is searching for sterile neutrinos via the observation of μ → e…T. Dodo, M. K. Cheoun, J. H. Choi et al.·Mar 28, 2024SaveLearn
Status of the production of GEM chambers for the CMS experiment at Large Hadron ColliderThe High Luminosity LHC phase includes an upgrade to the muon stations for the CMS Experiment. CMS trigger and muon identification performance will be crucial, and it is, therefore, necessary to…L. Benussi, S. Bianco, R. Campagnola et al.·Mar 28, 2024SaveLearn
YAP:Ce scintillator as an absolute ultracold neutron detectorThe upcoming UCNProBe experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory will measure the β-decay rate of free neutrons with different systematic uncertainties than previous beam-based neutron…M. Krivoš, Z. Tang, N. Floyd et al.·Mar 27, 2024SaveLearn
Ambient neutron dosimetry in high energy and pulsed neutron fieldsThe status of the LINrem project is presented, focusing on the development of innovative neutron dosimeters with enhanced energy sensitivity, time resolution, and portability. Designed to meet the…Ariel Tarifeno-Saldivia, Francisco Calvino, Alfredo De Blas et al.·Mar 27, 2024SaveLearn
Demonstration of Near-Epithermal Neutron Reflective OpticsSpecular reflection of neutrons on material surfaces has been demonstrated in the energy range of 0.09-0.7 eV. The results suggest that the applicable energy range of reflective neutron optics can be…Takuhiro Fujiie, Ryota Abe, Masahiro Hino et al.·Mar 27, 2024SaveLearn
Low radioactivity techniques for Large TPCs in rare event searchesThe investigation of rare phenomena requires an effective suppression of all the background components entangling the expected signal. This has compelled the development of a wide range of low…S. Cebrian·Mar 26, 2024SaveLearn
Development and property study of the 12 μm thick straw tubes with a diameter of 5 mm for the COMET Straw Tracker SystemThe COMET experiment focuses on searching for the direct conversion of a muon into an electron on an aluminum nucleus without emitting a neutrino (so-called μ→ e conversion). This…N. Tsverava, G. Adamov, D. Chokheli et al.·Mar 26, 2024SaveLearn