The design and test results of A Giga-Bit Cable Receiver (GBCR) for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Pixel DetectorThis paper presents the design and test results of a Gigabit Cable Receiver ASIC called GBCR for the HL-LHC upgrade of the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) pixel detector. Three prototypes (GBCR1, GBCR2,…L. Zhang, D. Gong, T. Liu et al.·Jan 31, 2023SaveLearn
CMS Tracker Alignment Activities during LHC Long Shutdown 2The strategies for and the performance of the CMS tracker alignment during the 2021-2022 LHC commissioning preceding the Run 3 data-taking period are described. The results of the very first tracker…Sandra Consuegra Rodríguez·Jan 30, 2023SaveLearn
First results on FHM -- a Floating Hole MultiplierA proof of principle of a novel concept for event recording in dual-phase liquid xenon detectors -- the Floating Hole Multiplier (FHM) -- is presented. It is shown that a standard Thick Gaseous…V. Chepel, G. Martinez-Lema, A. Roy et al.·Jan 30, 2023SaveLearn
Low-cost fluorescence microscope with microfluidic device fabrication for optofluidic applicationsOptofluidic devices have revolutionized the manipulation and transportation of fluid at smaller length scales ranging from micrometers to millimeters. We describe a dedicated optical setup for…Nagaraj Nagalingam, Aswin Raghunathan, Vikram Korede et al.·Jan 30, 2023SaveLearn
An optimized online filter stack spectrometerThe spectrum of laser-plasma-generated X-rays is very important as it can characterize electron dynamics and also be useful for applications, and nowadays with the forthcoming high-repetition-rate…Jia-xing Wen, Ge Ma, Ming-hai Yu et al.·Jan 29, 2023SaveLearn
Design, fabrication and large scale qualification of cosmic muon veto scintillator detectorsThe INO collaboration is designing a cosmic muon veto detector (CMVD) to cover the mini-ICAL detector which is operational at the IICHEP transit campus, Madurai in South India. The aim of the CMVD is…Mandar Saraf, Pandi Raj Chinnappan, Aditya Deodhar et al.·Jan 29, 2023SaveLearn
Low Energy Electronic Recoils and Single Electron Detection with a Liquid Xenon Proportional Scintillation CounterLiquid xenon (LXe) is a well-studied detector medium to search for rare events in dark matter and neutrino physics. Two-phase xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) can detect electronic and nuclear…Jianyang Qi, Noah Hood, Abigail Kopec et al.·Jan 28, 2023SaveLearn
New opportunities for kaonic atoms measurements from CdZnTe detectorsWe present the tests performed by the SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration at the DANE collider with a quasi-hemispherical CdZnTe detector. The very good room-temperature energy resolution and efficiency…L. Abbene, M. Bettelli, A. Buttacavoli et al.·Jan 28, 2023SaveLearn
20 ps Time Resolution with a Fully-Efficient Monolithic Silicon Pixel Detector without Internal Gain LayerA second monolithic silicon pixel prototype was produced for the MONOLITH project. The ASIC contains a matrix of hexagonal pixels with 100 μm pitch, readout by a low-noise and very fast SiGe HBT…S. Zambito, M. Milanesio, T. Moretti et al.·Jan 28, 2023SaveLearn
Ultrafast CMOS image sensors and data-enabled super-resolution for multimodal radiographic imaging and tomographyWe summarize recent progress in ultrafast Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor development and the application of neural networks for post-processing of CMOS and charge-coupled…Xin Yue, Shanny Lin, Wenting Li et al.·Jan 27, 2023SaveLearn
Photon Counting Histogram Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Characterization of Deep Sub-Electron Read Noise SensorsWe develop a novel algorithm for characterizing Deep Sub-Electron Read Noise (DSERN) image sensors. This algorithm is able to simultaneously compute maximum likelihood estimates of quanta exposure,…Aaron Hendrickson, David P. Haefner·Jan 27, 2023SaveLearn
PeakOTron: A Python Module for Fitting Charge Spectra of Silicon PhotomultipliersA Python program has been developed which fits a published detector-response model to SiPM charge spectra to characterise SiPMs. Spectra for SiPMs illuminated by low intensity pulsed light with…Jack Rolph, Erika Garutti, Robert Klanner et al.·Jan 27, 2023SaveLearn
Time-of-flight spectroscopy of ultracold neutrons at the PSI UCN sourceThe ultracold neutron (UCN) source at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) provides high intensities of storable neutrons for fundamental physics experiments. The neutron velocity spectrum parallel to…G. Bison, W. Chen, P. -J. Chiu et al.·Jan 27, 2023SaveLearn
Theory and Instrumentation of Fourier Transform SpectroscopyFourier transform spectroscopy (FTS) has been widely used as an analytical tool for many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we describe the operation principle and practical…Sohrab Sheikh-Sofla, Mohammad Neshat·Jan 27, 2023SaveLearn
Intrinsic timing properties of ideal 3D-trench silicon sensor with fast front-end electronicsThis paper describes the fundamental timing properties of a single-pixel sensor for charged particle detection based on the 3D-trench silicon structure. We derive the results both analytically and…Gian Matteo Cossu, Davide Brundu, Adriano Lai·Jan 26, 2023SaveLearn
Timing performances of front-end electronics with 3D-trench silicon sensorsDetectors based on pixels with timing capabilities are gaining increasing importance in the last years. Next-to-come high-energy physics experiments at colliders require the use of time information…Gian Matteo Cossu, Adriano Lai·Jan 26, 2023SaveLearn
High-speed and wide-field nanoscale table-top ptychographic EUV imaging and beam characterization with a sCMOS detectorWe present high-speed and wide-field EUV ptychography at 13.5 nm wavelength using a table-top high-order harmonic source. By employing a scientific complementary metal oxide semiconductor (sCMOS)…Wilhelm Eschen, Chang Liu, Daniel S. Penagos Molina et al.·Jan 26, 2023SaveLearn
Infrared photon-number-resolving imager using a Skipper-CCDImaging in a broad light-intensity regime with a high signal-to-noise ratio is a key capability in fields as diverse as Quantum Metrology and Astronomy. Achieving high signal-to-noise ratios in…Q. Pears Stefano, A. G. Magnoni, J. Estrada et al.·Jan 26, 2023SaveLearn
Reconstruction of Fast Neutron Direction in Segmented Organic Detectors using Deep LearningA method for reconstructing the direction of a fast neutron source using a segmented organic scintillator-based detector and deep learning model is proposed and analyzed. The model is based on…Jun Woo Bae, Tingshiuan C. Wu, Igor Jovanovic·Jan 25, 2023SaveLearn
Gain Recovery in Heavily Irradiated Low Gain Avalanche Detectors by High Temperature AnnealingStudies of annealing at temperatures up to 450 with LGADs irradiated with neutrons are described. It was found that the performance of LGADs irradiated with 1.5e15 n/cm2 was already…I. Mandić, V. Cindro, A. Gorišek et al.·Jan 25, 2023SaveLearn
DTS-100G -- A versatile heterogeneous MPSoC board for cryogenic sensor readoutHeterogeneous devices such as the Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) from Xilinx are extremely valuable in custom instrumentation systems. This contribution presents the joint development of a…Timo Muscheid, Artur Boebel, Nick Karcher et al.·Jan 25, 2023SaveLearn
The CMS inner Tracker Endcap PiXel upgradeThe High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN is expected to collide protons at a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV and to reach the unprecedented peak instantaneous luminosity of $7.5…Sascha Liechti·Jan 25, 2023SaveLearn
An LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) for 2030sThe Upgrade II of the LHCb detector, foreseen for 2031, will operate at an instantaneous luminosity of 1.5 x 1034 cm-2s-1, accumulating a sample of more than 300 fb-1. To cope…Evangelos Leonidas Gkougkousis·Jan 25, 2023SaveLearn
Energy efficient ethanol concentration method for scalable CO2 electrolysisVacuum membrane distillation efficiently concentrates dilute ethanol streams produced by CO2 electrolysis (CO2R), yielding up to ~40 wt.% ethanol in pure water. Our results allow for a more…Magda Barecka, DS Pritika Dameni, Marsha Zakir Muhamad et al.·Jan 24, 2023SaveLearn
Production and measurement of stellar neutron spectrum at 30 keVIn the present experiment we measure the forward-emitted angle-integrated neutron spectrum of the 7Li(p,n)7Be reaction via time-of-flight neutron spectrometry. The proton beam is shaped to a…Javier Praena, Guido Martín-Hernández, Javier García López·Jan 24, 2023SaveLearn