Electrical/piezoresistive effects in bent Alpide MAPSThe ITS3 upgrade baseline design employs MAPS (Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor) in bent state. Bending experiments with the existing ITS2 MAPS (=Alpide chip) show it remains functional but with…M. J. Rossewij, E. M. Okkinga, H. M. Naqvi et al.·Mar 18, 2024SaveLearn
Recovery of HADES drift chambers suffering from Malter-like effectsThe central tracking system of the HADES detector, installed at the SIS-18 synchrotron at GSI/Darmstadt (Germany), employs large-area, low-mass drift chambers, featuring Aluminum potential wires and…Christian Wendisch, Christian Muentz, Luis Lopes et al.·Mar 18, 2024SaveLearn
Development of a low-background micro pixel chamber for directional dark matter searchesDirect detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) can provide strong evidence of their existence and the directional method would have an advantage over other methods to detect the…Ryota Namai, Satoshi Higashino, Hirohisa Ishiura et al.·Mar 18, 2024SaveLearn
Integrating lpGBT links into the Common Readout Units (CRU) of the ALICE ExperimentIn the ALICE read-out and trigger system, the present GBT and CRU based solution will also serve for Run4 without major modifications. By now, the GBT protocol has been superseded by lpGBT.…E. David, T. Kiss·Mar 18, 2024SaveLearn
High-finesse nanofiber Fabry-P\'erot resonator in a portable storage containerWe present characterization and storage methods for a high-finesse nanofiber Fabry-P\'erot resonator. Reflection spectroscopy from both ends of the resonator allows for evaluation of the mirror…S. Horikawa, S. Yang, T. Tanaka et al.·Mar 18, 2024SaveLearn
Development of neutron beamline for laser-driven neutron resonance spectroscopyRecent progress of laser science provides laser-driven neutron source (LDNS), which has remarkable features such as the short pulse width. One of the key techniques to be developed for more efficient…Zechen Lan, Yasunobu Arikawa, Alessio Morace et al.·Mar 18, 2024SaveLearn
A Laser Phase Plate for Transmission Electron MicroscopyLow image contrast is a major limitation in transmission electron microscopy, since samples with low atomic number only weakly phase-modulate the illuminating electron beam, and beam-induced sample…Jeremy J. Axelrod·Mar 15, 2024SaveLearn
Water-based Quantum Dots Liquid Scintillator for Particle PhysicsLiquid scintillators are typically composed from organic compounds dissolved in organic solvents. However, usage of such material is often restricted due to fire safety and environmental reasons.…M. Zhao, M. Taani, J. Cole et al.·Mar 15, 2024SaveLearn
TCAD Simulations of Humidity-Induced Breakdown of Silicon SensorsThe breakdown voltage of silicon sensors is known to be affected by the ambient humidity. To understand the sensor's humidity sensitivity, Synopsys TCAD was used to simulate n-in-p sensors for…Ilona-Stefana Ninca, Ingo Bloch, Ben Bruers et al.·Mar 14, 2024SaveLearn
A Segmented Total Energy Detector (sTED) optimized for (n,γ) cross-section measurements at nTOF EAR2The neutron time-of-flight facility nTOF at CERN is a spallation source dedicated to measurements of neutron-induced reaction cross-sections of interest in nuclear technologies, astrophysics, and…V. Alcayne, D. Cano-Ott, J. Garcia et al.·Mar 14, 2024SaveLearn
Operation of BGO with SiPM readout at dry ice and liquid nitrogen temperaturesThe light yield and decay constant of BGO were measured at both dry ice and liquid nitrogen temperatures using two SiPMs directly coupled to a 6×6×6 cm2 cubic BGO crystal. With the…Keyu Ding, Jing Liu·Mar 14, 2024SaveLearn
Characterisation of analogue Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor test structures implemented in a 65 nm CMOS imaging processAnalogue test structures were fabricated using the Tower Partners Semiconductor Co. CMOS 65 nm ISC process. The purpose was to characterise and qualify this process and to optimise the sensor for the…Gianluca Aglieri Rinella, Giacomo Alocco, Matias Antonelli et al.·Mar 13, 2024SaveLearn
Fault Localization in a Microfabricated Surface Ion Trap using Diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy Center MagnetometryAs quantum computing hardware becomes more complex with ongoing design innovations and growing capabilities, the quantum computing community needs increasingly powerful techniques for fabrication…Pauli Kehayias, Matthew A. Delaney, Raymond A. Haltli et al.·Mar 13, 2024SaveLearn
On the 96-well plate coverglass tilt and curvature suppression in 96-camera imaging systemThe 96-eyes instrument is capable of computational extended depth of focus (eDOF) of up to +/- 30 micrometer in the phase channel, and conventional depth of field (DOF) of +/- 5 micrometer in the…Antony C Chan·Mar 13, 2024SaveLearn
Calibrating coordinate system alignment in a scanning transmission electron microscope using a digital twinIn four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D STEM) a focused beam is scanned over a specimen and a diffraction pattern is recorded at each position using a pixelated detector.…Dieter Weber, David Landers, Chen Huang et al.·Mar 13, 2024SaveLearn
On the Development of an RFSoC-Based Ultra-Fast Phasemeter With GHz BandwidthPrecise measurements of the frequency and phase of an electrical or optical signal play a key role in various branches of science and engineering. Tracking changing laser frequencies is especially…Shreevathsa Chalathadka Subrahmanya, Christian Darsow-Fromm, Oliver Gerberding·Mar 12, 2024SaveLearn
Second gadolinium loading to Super-KamiokandeThe first loading of gadolinium (Gd) into Super-Kamiokande in 2020 was successful, and the neutron capture efficiency on Gd reached 50\%. To further increase the Gd neutron capture efficiency to…K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato et al.·Mar 12, 2024SaveLearn
Towards a Unified Formalism of Multivariate Coefficients of Variation -- Application to the Analysis of Polarimetric Speckle Time SeriesThis article primarily aims to unify the various formalisms of multivariate coefficients of variation, leveraging advanced concepts of generalized means, whether weighted or not, applied to the…Elise Colin, Razvigor Ossikovski·Mar 12, 2024SaveLearn
Validation of electrodeposited 241Am alpha-particle sources for use in liquified gas detectors at cryogenic temperaturesThis paper describes a procedure for the validation of alpha-particle sources (exempt unsealed sources) to be used in experimental setups with liquefied gases at cryogenic temperatures (down to -196…E. Calvo Alamillo, M. T. Crespo Vázquez, P. F. Rato Mendes et al.·Mar 12, 2024SaveLearn
Radon Concentration Measurement with a High-Sensitivity Radon Detector at the YemilabThe radiation emitted from radon is a critical background in rare event search experiments conducted at the Yemi Underground Laboratory (Yemilab) in Jeongseon, Korea. A Radon Reduction System(RRS)…Kyungmin Seo, Hyunsoo Kim, Yeongduk Kim et al.·Mar 12, 2024SaveLearn
Timepix3: single-pixel multi-hit energy-measurement behaviorThe event-driven hybrid-pixel detector readout chip, Timepix3, has the ability to simultaneously measure the time of an event on the nanosecond timescale and the energy deposited in the sensor.…Hubertus Bromberger, David Pennicard, Rafael Ballabriga et al.·Mar 11, 2024SaveLearn
Estimation of waveform deformation with the matched filterIn many particle physics experiments the data processing is based on the analysis of the digitized waveforms provided by the detector. While the waveform amplitude is usually correlated to the event…Matteo Cappelli, Giorgio del Castello, Marco Vignati·Mar 11, 2024SaveLearn
Background discrimination with a Micromegas detector prototype and veto system for BabyIAXOIn this paper we present measurements performed with a Micromegas X-ray detector setup. The detector is a prototype in the context of the BabyIAXO helioscope, which is under construction to search…K. Altenmüller, J. F. Castel, S. Cebrián et al.·Mar 10, 2024SaveLearn
Miniaturized time-correlated single-photon counting module for time-of-flight non-line-of-sight imaging applicationsSingle-photon time-of-flight (TOF) non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables the high-resolution reconstruction of objects outside the field of view. The compactness of TOF NLOS imaging systems,…Jie Wu, Chao Yu, Jian-Wei Zeng et al.·Mar 9, 2024SaveLearn
Rubidium and cesium ion-induced electron and ion signals for scanning ion microscopy applicationsScanning ion microscopy applications of novel focused ion beam (FIB) systems based on ultracold rubidium (Rb) and cesium (Cs) atoms were investigated via ion-induced electron and ion yields. Results…Y. Li, S. Xu, T. H. Loeber et al.·Mar 8, 2024SaveLearn