An ultra-stable cryogenic sapphire cavity laser with an instability of 1.9×10-16 based on a low vibration level cryostatCryogenic ultra-stable lasers have extremely low thermal noise limits and frequency drifts, but they are more seriously affected by vibration noise from cryostats. Main material candidates for…Leilei He, Jingxuan Zhang, Zhiyuan Wang et al.·Mar 10, 2023SaveLearn
Beam Test Results of the RADiCAL -- a Radiation Hard Innovative EM CalorimeterHigh performance calorimetry conducted at future hadron colliders, such as the FCC-hh, poses a significant challenge for applying current detector technologies due to unprecedented beam luminosities…James Wetzel, Dylan Blend, Paul Debbins et al.·Mar 9, 2023SaveLearn
Advanced Techniques in Automated High Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron MicroscopyScanning transmission electron microscopy is a common tool used to study the atomic structure of materials. It is an inherently multimodal tool allowing for the simultaneous acquisition of multiple…Alexander Pattison, Cassio C. S. Pedroso, Bruce E. Cohen et al.·Mar 9, 2023SaveLearn
Performance of a liquid nitrogen cryostat setup for the study of nuclear recoils in undoped CsI crystalsThere is a global trend to increase the light yield of CsI scintillators used in neutrino and dark matter detection by operating undoped crystals at cryogenic temperatures. However, high light yield…K. Ding, J. Liu, Y. Yang et al.·Mar 9, 2023SaveLearn
Automated visual inspection of CMS HGCAL silicon sensor surface using an ensemble of a deep convolutional autoencoder and classifierMore than a thousand 8" silicon sensors will be visually inspected to look for anomalies on their surface during the quality control preceding assembly into the High-Granularity Calorimeter for the…Sonja Grönroos, Maurizio Pierini, Nadezda Chernyavskaya·Mar 9, 2023SaveLearn
The effects of a passive Bi-Polar Grid (BPG) on Ion Back-Flow (IBF) and ResolutionTime Projection Chambers (TPC)s are excellent tracking detectors for high multiplicity events and can intrinsically be high-rate, but are limited by the ions created in their avalanche stage. GEMs…V. Zakharov, E. Shulga, P. Garg et al.·Mar 9, 2023SaveLearn
Characterization of Charge Spreading and Gain of Encapsulated Resistive Micromegas Detectors for the Upgrade of the T2K Near Detector Time Projection ChambersAn upgrade of the near detector of the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is currently being conducted. This upgrade will include two new Time Projection Chambers, each equipped with…D. Attie, O. Ballester, M. Batkiewicz-Kwasnia et al.·Mar 8, 2023SaveLearn
Improving of ultracold neutron traps coated with liquid helium using capillarity and electric fieldTo increase the storage time of ultracold neutrons (UCN) inside the material traps it is promising to cover the trap walls by liquid 4He, the material which does not absorb neutrons at all. A rough…Pavel D. Grigoriev, Arseniy V. Sadovnikov, Vladislav D. Kochev et al.·Mar 8, 2023SaveLearn
Ultra-High-Resolution Detector Simulation with Intra-Event Aware GAN and Self-Supervised Relational ReasoningSimulating high-resolution detector responses is a computationally intensive process that has long been challenging in Particle Physics. Despite the ability of generative models to streamline it,…Baran Hashemi, Nikolai Hartmann, Sahand Sharifzadeh et al.·Mar 7, 2023SaveLearn
Timing resistive plate chambers for thermal neutron detection with 3D position sensitivityAn optimized design of a neutron detector based on timing RPCs (Resistive Plate Chambers) with boron-10 neutron converters is presented. The detector is composed of a stack of ten double gap RPCs…L. M. S. Margato, G. Canezin, A. Morozov et al.·Mar 6, 2023SaveLearn
Generalized Method for the Optimization of Pulse Shape Discrimination ParametersOrganic scintillators exhibit fast timing, high detection efficiency for fast neutrons and pulse shape discrimination (PSD) capability. PSD is essential in mixed radiation fields, where different…Jianxin Zhou, Abdullah Abdulaziz, Yoann Altmann et al.·Mar 6, 2023SaveLearn
High-Efficiency Photodetector Based On CVD-Grown WS2 MonolayerFuture generation technologies demand high efficiency photodetectors to enable sensing and switching devices for ultrafast communication and machine vision. This require direct-band gap materials…Rakesh K. Prasad, Koushik Ghosh, P. K. Giri et al.·Mar 6, 2023SaveLearn
Characterization of the performances of plastic commercial scintillators in cryogenic environmentsPlastic scintillators have become increasingly important in particle physics for time-of-flight and calorimetry measurements. Their light yield and the possibility of customizing their geometry make…M. Biassoni, A. Caminata, S. Caprioli et al.·Mar 6, 2023SaveLearn
Design of the Readout Electronics for the TRIDENT Pathfinder ExperimentThe tRopIcal DEep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) is a future large-scale next-generation neutrino telescope. In September 2021, the TRIDENT pathfinder experiment (TRIDENT EXplorer, T-REX for short)…M. X. Wang, G. H. Gong, P. Miao et al.·Mar 6, 2023SaveLearn
First measurement of the nuclear-recoil ionization yield in silicon at 100 eVWe measured the nuclear--recoil ionization yield in silicon with a cryogenic phonon-sensitive gram-scale detector. Neutrons from a mono-energetic beam scatter off of the silicon nuclei at angles…M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso et al.·Mar 3, 2023SaveLearn
Tagging and localisation of ionizing events using NbSi transition edge phonon sensors for Dark Matter searchesIn the context of direct searches of sub-GeV Dark Matter particles with germanium detectors, the EDELWEISS collaboration has tested a new technique to tag ionizing events using NbSi transition edge…EDELWEISS Collaboration, C. Augier, A. Benoît et al.·Mar 3, 2023SaveLearn
A Compact Dication Source for Ba2+ Tagging and Heavy Metal Ion Sensor DevelopmentWe present a tunable metal ion beam that delivers controllable ion currents in the picoamp range for testing of dry-phase ion sensors. Ion beams are formed by sequential atomic evaporation and single…K. E. Navarro, B. J. P. Jones, J. Baeza-Rubio et al.·Mar 2, 2023SaveLearn
AGATA: Advancements in Software DevelopmentsPresently, gamma-ray tracking in germanium segmented detectors is realised by applying two advanced, complex algorithms. While they have already triggered an intensive R&D, they are still subject to…O. Stézowski, J. Dudouet, A. Goasduff et al.·Mar 2, 2023SaveLearn
The Thick Gas Electron Multiplier and its derivatives: physics, technologies and applicationsThe Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) is a robust high-gain gas-avalanche electron multiplier - a building block of a variety of radiation detectors. It can be manufactured economically by…Shikma Bressler, Luca Moleri, Abhik Jash et al.·Mar 2, 2023SaveLearn
Design and Build of a Customizable Light Sheet for Visualization of Cytoskeleton NetworksReconstituted cytoskeleton composites have emerged as a valuable model system for studying non equilibrium soft matter. Faithful capture of the dynamics of these three dimensional, dense networks…Nathan Felcher, Daisy Achiriloaie, Brian Lee et al.·Mar 2, 2023SaveLearn
Measurement of the Argon Purity by ICP-MS and Results of the Analysis of the Gas Used for the MicroBooNE ExperimentMeasuring the argon purity is critical for all Ar-based rare event research experiments. Mass spectrometry is typically used to assess the uranium and thorium contamination in samples of the…R. Santorelli, A. I. Barrado Olmedo, E. Conde Vilda et al.·Mar 1, 2023SaveLearn
Boron Coated Straw-based Neutron Multiplicity Counter for Neutron Interrogation of TRISO Fueled PebblesPebble bed reactors (PBRs) can improve the safety and economics of the nuclear energy production. PBRs rely on TRIstructural-ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel pebbles for enhanced fission product retention.…Ming Fang, Jeff Lacy, Athanasios Athanasiades et al.·Mar 1, 2023SaveLearn
Laser calibration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter during LHC Run 2This article reports the laser calibration of the hadronic Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment in the LHC Run 2 data campaign. The upgraded Laser II calibration system is described. The system…M. N. Agaras, A. Ahmad, A. Blanco et al.·Feb 28, 2023SaveLearn
Absolute spectral metrology of XFEL pulses using diffraction in crystalsAt modern X-ray sources, such as synchrotrons and X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs), it is important to measure the absolute value of the photon energy directly. Here, a method for absolute spectral…Ilia Petrov, Liubov Samoylova, Sarlota Birnsteinova et al.·Feb 28, 2023SaveLearn
Investigation of Cryogenic Current-Voltage Anomalies in SiGe HBTs: Role of Base-Emitter Junction InhomogeneitiesThe deviations of cryogenic collector current-voltage characteristics of SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) from ideal drift-diffusion theory have been a topic of investigation for many…Nachiket R. Naik, Bekari Gabritchidze, Justin H. Chen et al.·Feb 28, 2023SaveLearn