Mechanical detection of nuclear decaysWe report the detection of individual nuclear α decays through the mechanical recoil of the entire micron-sized particle in which the decaying nuclei are embedded. Momentum conservation…Jiaxiang Wang, T. W. Penny, Juan Recoaro et al.·Jan 18, 2024SaveLearn
On the determination of the interaction time of GeV neutrinos in large argon gas TPCsNext-generation megawatt-scale neutrino beams open the way to studying neutrino-nucleus scattering using gaseous targets for the first time. This represents an opportunity to improve the knowledge of…A. Saá-Hernández, D. González-Díaz, J. Martín-Albo et al.·Jan 18, 2024SaveLearn
FAT-GEMs: (Field Assisted) Transparent Gaseous-Electroluminescence MultipliersThe idea of implementing electroluminescence-based amplification through transparent multi-hole structures (FAT-GEMs) has been entertained for some time. Arguably, for such a technology to be…S. Leardini, A. Sáa-Hernández, M. Kuźniak et al.·Jan 18, 2024SaveLearn
Investigating the slow component of the infrared scintillation time response in gaseous xenonXenon is the target material of choice in several rare event searches. The use of infrared (IR) scintillation light, in addition to the commonly used vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light, could increase…Robert Hammann, Kai Böse, Luisa Hötzsch et al.·Jan 17, 2024SaveLearn
New generation B-Field and RAD-tolerant DCDC power converter for on-detector operationThe increase in the number of readout channels in new detectors, like the Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD), in the order of several millions, requires a large amount of electrical power to supply…A. Lanza, E. Romano, S. Selmi·Jan 17, 2024SaveLearn
A deconvolution based signal reconstruction capable of piled-up pulse separationThis study provides a computationally effective deconvolution algorithm capable to reconstruct piled-up events in scintillating detector systems with high count rate where fully digitized waveforms…Georgi Georgiev·Jan 17, 2024SaveLearn
Microgram BaCl2 Ablation Targets for Trapped Ion ExperimentsTrapped ions for quantum information processing has been an area of intense study due to the extraordinarily high fidelity operations that have been reported experimentally. Specifically, barium…Noah Greenberg, Akbar Jahangiri Jozani, Collin J. C. Epstein et al.·Jan 16, 2024SaveLearn
Development of HPK Capacitive Coupled LGAD (AC-LGAD) detectorsThe detectors with O(10) μm spatial resolution and O(10) ps timing resolution construct powerful particle trackers for future hadron or lepton collider experiments. LGAD:…Tomoka Imamura, Sayuka Kita, Koji Nakamura et al.·Jan 16, 2024SaveLearn
Estimation of the electric field in atom probe tomography experiments using charge state ratios(Kingham 1982) provided equations for the probability of observing higher charge states in atom probe tomography (APT) experiments. These "Kingham curves" have wide application in APT, but cannot be…Levi Tegg, Leigh T. Stephenson, Julie M. Cairney·Jan 15, 2024SaveLearn
Exploring Advanced Detector Technologies for Muon Radiography ApplicationsMuon radiography often referred to as muography, is an imaging technique that uses freely available cosmic-ray muons to study the interior structure of natural or man-made large-scale objects. The…Amrutha Samalan, Yassar Assran, Carlos Andres Diaz Escorcia et al.·Jan 14, 2024SaveLearn
Understanding the Nonlinear Response of SiPMsA systematic study of the nonlinear response of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) has been conducted through Monte Carlo simulations. SiPMs have been proven to show a universal nonlinear response when…Victor Moya, Jaime Rosado·Jan 12, 2024SaveLearn
Novel photon detectorsThe paper reviews recent progress in photodetectors, discussing vacuum-based detectors, semiconductor sensors, and gas-based detectors. The emphasis in this review is on the detection of low light…Peter Krizan·Jan 11, 2024SaveLearn
Precision test of the weak interaction with slow muonsWe propose to use slow muons facilities combined with cyclotron radiation detection for precision test of the weak interaction in the muon decays. Slow positive muon bunches are first injected into a…Xin Chen, Zhen Hu, Hui Li et al.·Jan 11, 2024SaveLearn
Cathodoluminescence of quantized energy states at AlGaN/GaN interfaceRecent progress in manufacturing high-electron-mobility transistors and optoelectronic devices highlights the necessity of understanding the charge dynamics and its impact on the optical properties…Fatemeh Chahshouri, Masoud Taleb, Maximilian Black et al.·Jan 11, 2024SaveLearn
Xenon-gas ionization chamber to improve particle identification of heavy ion beams with Z>70In conventional ionization chambers (ICs) using P-10 (Ar+CH4) gas, as the atomic number (Z) of the ion beams increases in the energy region of 200-300 MeV/u, the Z resolution deteriorates rapidly…Masahiro Yoshimoto, Naoki Fukuda, Riku Matsumura et al.·Jan 11, 2024SaveLearn
Synthesis of pulses from particle detectors with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)To address the possible lack or total absence of pulses from particle detectors during the development of its associate electronics, we propose a model that can generate them without losing the…Alberto Regadío, Luis Esteban, Sebastián Sánchez-Prieto·Jan 10, 2024SaveLearn
Three topologies of deep neural networks for pulse height extractionPulse shaping is a common technique for optimizing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in particle detectors. Although analog or digital linear shapers are typically used for this purpose, there are…Alberto Regadío, Juan Ignacio G. Tejedor, Luis Esteban et al.·Jan 10, 2024SaveLearn
Lowering the Energy Threshold using a Plastic Scintillator and Radiation-Damaged SiPMsThe radiation damage to a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) set on a satellite orbit increases energy threshold for scintillator detectors. We confirmed that 1 krad of radiation increases the energy…Teruaki Morishita, Yasushi Fukazawa, Hiromitsu Takahashi et al.·Jan 10, 2024SaveLearn
Cryogenic setup for the characterization of wavelength-shifting materials for noble element radiation detectorsIn the present work, we describe a cryogenic setup for studies of wavelength-shifting materials for optimised light collection in noble element radiation detectors, and discuss the commissioning…S. Choudhary, A. F. V. Cortez, M. Kuźniak et al.·Jan 10, 2024SaveLearn
Characterisation of plastic scintillator paddles and lightweight MWPCs for the MID subsystem of ALICE 3The ALICE collaboration is proposing a completely new detector, ALICE 3, for operation during the LHC Runs 5 and 6. One of the ALICE~3 subsystems is the Muon IDentifier detector (MID), which has to…Ruben Alfaro, Mauricio Alvarado Hernández, Gyula Bencédi et al.·Jan 9, 2024SaveLearn
ALICE ITS3: a bent stitched MAPS-based vertex detectorThe ALICE ITS3 is a novel vertex detector replacing the innermost layers of ITS2 during LS3. Composed of three truly cylindrical layers of wafer-sized 65 nm stitched Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors,…Ola Groettvik·Jan 9, 2024SaveLearn
Development and validation of a cryogenic far-infrared diffraction grating spectrometer used to post-disperse the output from a Fourier transform spectrometerRecent advances in far-infrared detector technology have led to increases in raw sensitivity of more than an order of magnitude over previous state-of-the-art detectors. With such sensitivity, photon…Alicia M. Anderson, David A. Naylor, Brad G. Gom et al.·Jan 9, 2024SaveLearn
Sea wave data reconstruction using micro-seismic measurements and machine learning methodsSea wave monitoring is key in many applications in oceanography such as the validation of weather and wave models. Conventional in situ solutions are based on moored buoys whose measurements are…Lorenzo Iafolla, Emiliano Fiorenza, Massimo Chiappini et al.·Jan 9, 2024SaveLearn
Monte Carlo algorithm for calculating pre-neutron fragment mass and kinetic energy distributions from measurements using the 2E Technique for reaction 235U(nth, f)An algorithm is proposed that enables the calculation of pre-neutron mass and energy distributions of fission fragments from uranium-235, induced by thermal neutrons, utilizing measurements obtained…Modesto Montoya, Miguel Roca, Mario Alvarez·Jan 8, 2024SaveLearn
Calculation of Forces to the High Granularity Calorimeter Stainless Steel Absorbers Misaligned inside the CMS Superconducting CoilThe general-purpose Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN includes the hadronic calorimeter to register the energies of the charged and neutral hadrons…Vyacheslav Klyukhin·Jan 8, 2024SaveLearn