Cool Cooling Collar for Bake-Out of Temperature-Sensitive DevicesA combination of a pumpable gate valve and a self-built cooling collar permits bake-out of an ultra-high vacuum chamber without having to dismount sensitive equipment. A small pump port on the closed…Jonas D. Fortmann, Christian Brand, Michael Horn-von Hoegen·Nov 16, 2023SaveLearn
The PETALO projectPETALO (Positron Emission TOF Apparatus with Liquid xenOn) is a project that uses liquid xenon as a scintillation medium, silicon photomultipliers as a readout and fast electronics to provide a…Nerea Salor Iguiñiz·Nov 16, 2023SaveLearn
Demonstrating the Q-Pix front-end using discrete OpAmp and CMOS transistorsUsing Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Operational Amplifiers (OpAmps) and Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) transistors, we present a demonstration of the Q-Pix front-end architecture, a…Peng Miao, Jonathan Asaadi, James B. R. Battat et al.·Nov 16, 2023SaveLearn
Thermal noise calibration of functionalized cantilevers for force microscopy: effects of the colloidal probe positionColloidal probes are often used in force microscopy when the geometry of the tip-sample interaction should be well controlled. Their calibration requires the understanding of their mechanical…Aubin Archambault, Caroline Crauste-Thibierge, Ludovic Bellon·Nov 15, 2023SaveLearn
Design of a full-filed transmission X-ray microscope with 30nm resolutionA full-field transmission hard X-ray microscope (TXM) with 30nm resolution was designed and its prototype was constructed. The TXM relies on a compact, high stiffness, low heat dissipation and low…Keliang Liao, Qili He, Panyun Li et al.·Nov 15, 2023SaveLearn
The HIBEAM Instrument at the European Spallation SourceThe European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the world's brightest neutron source and will open a new intensity frontier in particle physics. The HIBEAM collaboration aims to exploit the unique…V. Santoro, D. Milstead, P. Fierlinger et al.·Nov 14, 2023SaveLearn
High-rate tests on Resistive Plate Chambers operated with eco-friendly gas mixturesResults obtained by the RPC ECOgas@GIF++ Collaboration, using Resistive Plate Chambers operated with new, eco-friendly gas mixtures, based on Tetrafluoropropene and carbon dioxide, are shown and…M. Abbrescia, G. Aielli, R. Aly et al.·Nov 14, 2023SaveLearn
Using Old Laboratory Equipment with Modern Web-of-Things Standards: a Smart Laboratory with LabThings RetroThere has been an increasing, and welcome, Open Hardware trend towards science teams building and sharing their designs for new instruments. These devices, often built upon low-cost microprocessors…Samuel McDermott, Jurij Kotar, Joel Collins et al.·Nov 14, 2023SaveLearn
Fast Silicon Carbide MOSFET based high-voltage push-pull switch for charge state separation of highly charged ions with a Bradbury-Nielsen GateIn this paper we report on the development of a fast high-voltage switch, which is based on two enhancement mode N-channel Silicon Carbide Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors in…Christoph Schweiger, Menno Door, Pavel Filianin et al.·Nov 14, 2023SaveLearn
High-energy electron measurements with thin Si detectorsA technique for measuring high-energy electrons using Si detectors of various thicknesses that are much smaller than the range of the examined electrons is presented. The advantages of the method are…Gokul Das H, R. Dubey, K. Czerski et al.·Nov 13, 2023SaveLearn
Performance of the electromagnetic and hadronic prototype segments of the ALICE Forward CalorimeterWe present the performance of a full-length prototype of the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal). The detector is composed of a silicon-tungsten electromagnetic sampling calorimeter with longitudinal…M. Aehle, J. Alme, C. Arata et al.·Nov 13, 2023SaveLearn
Performance of a First Full-Size WOM-Based Liquid Scintillator Detector Cell as Prototype for the SHiP Surrounding Background TaggerAs a prototype detector for the SHiP Surrounding Background Tagger (SBT), we constructed a cell (120 cm x 80 cm x 25 cm) made from corten steel that is filled with liquid scintillator (LS) composed…J. Alt, O. Bezshyyko, M. Böhles et al.·Nov 13, 2023SaveLearn
Detector development for the CRESST experimentRecently low-mass dark matter direct searches have been hindered by a low energy background, drastically reducing the physics reach of the experiments. In the CRESST-III experiment, this signal is…G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato et al.·Nov 13, 2023SaveLearn
Performance of new Kuraray wavelength-shifting fibers with short decay timeWe measure the decay time and the attenuation length of newly developed wavelength-shifting fibers, YS series from Kuraray, which have fast response. Using a 405 nm laser, the decay times of the…Shoma Kodama, Hokuto Kobayashi, Wataru Okinaga et al.·Nov 13, 2023SaveLearn
Effect of inelastic ion collisions on low-gain avalanche detectors explained by an ASi-Sii-defect modeThe acceptor removal phenomenon (ARP), which hampers the functionality of low-gain avalanche detectors (LGAD), is discussed in frame of the ASi-Sii-defect model. The assumption of fast diffusion of…Kevin Lauer, Stephanie Reiß, Aaron Flötotto et al.·Nov 13, 2023SaveLearn
CATLIFE (Complementary Arm for Target LIke FragmEnts): Spectrometer for Target like fragments at VAMOS++The multi-nucleon transfer reaction between 136Xe beam and 198Pt target at the beam energy 7 MeV/u was studied using the large acceptance spectrometer VAMOS++ coupled with the newly installed second…Y. Son, Y. H. Kim, Y. Cho et al.·Nov 13, 2023SaveLearn
Particle Identification at VAMOS++ with Machine Learning TechniquesMulti-nucleon transfer reaction between 136Xe beam and 198Pt target was performed using the VAMOS++ spectrometer at GANIL to study the structure of n-rich nuclei around N=126. Unambiguous charge…Y. Cho, Y. H. Kim, S. Choi et al.·Nov 13, 2023SaveLearn
Digital Transformation of High Voltage Isolation Control and Monitoring System for HVE-400 Ion ImplanterHVE-400 ion implanter is special ion implantation equipment for semiconductor materials boron and phosphorus doping. The ion source and extraction deflection system are at high voltage platform,…Chengbo Li, Xuepeng Sun, Zhiguo Liu et al.·Nov 12, 2023SaveLearn
Increasing the resolution of transmission electron microscopy by computational ghost imagingBy means of numerical simulations, we demonstrate the innovative use of computational ghost imaging in transmission electron microscopy to retrieve images with a resolution that overcomes the…P. Rosi, L. Viani, E. Rotunno et al.·Nov 10, 2023SaveLearn
Beam test of a 180 nm CMOS Pixel Sensor for the CEPC vertex detectorThe proposed Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) imposes new challenges for the vertex detector in terms of pixel size and material budget. A Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) prototype…Tianya Wu, Shuqi Li, Wei Wang et al.·Nov 10, 2023SaveLearn
4x2 Hot electron bolometer mixer arrays for detection at 1.46, 1.9 and 4.7 THz for a balloon borne terahertz observatoryWe have demonstrated three 4x2 hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer arrays for operation at local oscillator (LO) frequencies of 1.46, 1.9 and 4.7 THz, respectively. They consist of spiral antenna…José R. G. Silva, Wouter M. Laauwen, Behnam Mirzaei et al.·Nov 9, 2023SaveLearn
Neural Network Methods for Radiation Detectors and ImagingRecent advances in image data processing through machine learning and especially deep neural networks (DNNs) allow for new optimization and performance-enhancement schemes for radiation detectors and…S. Lin, S. Ning, H. Zhu et al.·Nov 9, 2023SaveLearn
Fourier Transform-Based Post-Processing Drift Compensation and Calibration Method for Scanning Probe MicroscopyScanning probe microscopy (SPM) is ubiquitous in nanoscale science allowing the observation of features in real space down to the angstrom resolution. The scanning nature of SPM, wherein a sharp tip…Maxime Le Ster, Sławomir Pawłowski, Iaroslav Lutsyk et al.·Nov 9, 2023SaveLearn
Dual-phase xenon time projection chambers for rare-event searchesIn the past decade, dual-phase xenon time projection chambers (Xe-TPCs) have emerged as some of the most powerful detectors in the fields of astroparticle physics and rare-event searches. Developed…Laura Baudis·Nov 9, 2023SaveLearn
Characterization of the Hamamatsu 8-inch R14688-100 PMTLarge-scale optical neutrino and dark-matter detectors rely on large-area photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) for cost-effective light detection. The new R14688-100 8-inch PMT developed by Hamamatsu…Tanner Kaptanoglu, Ashley Rincon, Mackenzie Duce et al.·Nov 9, 2023SaveLearn