ADENIUM -- A demonstrator for a next-generation beam telescope at DESYHigh-resolution beam telescopes for charged particle tracking are one of the most important and equally demanding infrastructure items at test beam facilities. The main purpose of beam telescopes is…Yi Liu, Changqing Feng, Ingrid-Maria Gregor et al.·Jan 14, 2023SaveLearn
Thin-film PMUTs: A Review of 40 Years of ResearchA concise review on the thin-film PMUTs, which has been one of the rather important research topics amongst microultrasound experts is being reported. It has been rigorously surveyed, scrutinized,…Kaustav Roy, Joshua En-Yuan Lee, Chengkuo Lee·Jan 14, 2023SaveLearn
A High-resolution Clock Phase Shifter Circuitry for ALTIROCA high-resolution clock phase shifter is implemented to adjust the phase of multiple clocks at 40 MHz, 80 MHz, or 640 MHz in the ALTIROC chip. The phase shifter has a coarse-phase shifter and a…X. Huang, C. de La Taille, D. Gong et al.·Jan 13, 2023SaveLearn
Split Boot -- True Network-Based Booting on Heterogeneous MPSoCsIn the context of the High-Luminosity (HL) upgrade of the LHC, many custom ATCA electronics boards are being designed containing heterogeneous System-on-Chip (SoC) devices, more specifically the…Marvin Fuchs, Luis E. Ardila-Perez, Torben Mehner et al.·Jan 13, 2023SaveLearn
Investigation of radiation hardness of silicon semiconductor detectors under irradiation with fission products of 252Cf nuclideInfluence of the prolonged irradiation by fission products of 252Cf radionuclide on the operational parameters of silicon-lithium Si(Li) p-i-n detectors, Si surface barrier detectors and Si planar…N. V. Bazlov, A. V. Derbin, I. S. Drachnev et al.·Jan 13, 2023SaveLearn
Mass production of ultra-pure NaI powder for COSINE-200COSINE-200 is the next phase experiment of the ongoing COSINE-100 that aims to unambiguously verify the annual modulation signals observed by the DAMA experiment and to reach the world competitive…KeonAh Shin, JunSeok Choe, Olga Gileva et al.·Jan 13, 2023SaveLearn
Planar fiber-chip-coupling using angle-polished polarization maintaining fibersWe report on our latest developments of a planar fiber-chip-coupling scheme, using angle polished, polarization maintaining (PM) fibers. Most integrated photonic chip components are polarization…Marc Schneider, Luis Alberto Garcia Herrera, Birgit Burger et al.·Jan 12, 2023SaveLearn
Study on U/Th residual radioactivity in acrylic from surface treatmentAcrylic is widely used as material for the target container in low background experiments due to its high light transparency and low intrinsic radioactivity. However, its surface can be easily…Yuanxia Li, Xiaohui Qian, Xiaolan Luo et al.·Jan 12, 2023SaveLearn
Performance of an ultra-pure NaI(Tl) detector produced by an indigenously-developed purification method and crystal growth for the COSINE-200 experimentThe COSINE-100 experiment has been operating with 106 kg of low-background NaI(Tl) detectors to test the results from the DAMA/LIBRA experiment, which claims to have observed dark matter. However,…Hyun Seok Lee, Byung Ju Park, Jae Jin Choi et al.·Jan 12, 2023SaveLearn
Mass testing of the JUNO experiment 20-inch PMTs readout electronicsThe Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose, large size, liquid scintillator experiment under construction in China. JUNO will perform leading measurements detecting…Alberto Coppi, Beatrice Jelmini, Marco Bellato et al.·Jan 11, 2023SaveLearn
Synthesis and processing of lithium-loaded plastic scintillators on the kilogram scalePlastic scintillators that can discriminate between gamma rays, fast neutrons, and thermal neutrons were synthesized and characterized while considering the balance between processing and performance…Michael J. Ford, Elisabeth Aigeldinger, Felicia Sutanto et al.·Jan 10, 2023SaveLearn
MALTA-Cz: A radiation hard full-size monolithic CMOS sensor with small electrodes on high-resistivity Czochralski substrateDepleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (DMAPS) sensors developed in the Tower Semiconductor 180 nm CMOS imaging process have been designed in the context of the ATLAS ITk upgrade Phase-II at the…H. Pernegger, P. Allport, D. V. Berlea et al.·Jan 10, 2023SaveLearn
A new ultra low-level HPGe activity counting setup in the Felsenkeller shallow-underground laboratoryA new ultra low-level counting setup has been installed in the shallow-underground laboratory Felsenkeller in Dresden, Germany. It includes a high-purity germanium detector (HPGe) of 163\% relative…S. Turkat, D. Bemmerer, A. Boeltzig et al.·Jan 10, 2023SaveLearn
Resistive Read-out in Thin Silicon Sensors with Internal GainTwo design innovations, low-gain avalanche (Low-Gain Avalance Diode, LGAD) and resistive read-out (Resistive Silicon Detector, RSD), have brought strong performance improvements to silicon sensors.…N. Cartiglia, F. Moscatelli, R. Arcidiacono et al.·Jan 8, 2023SaveLearn
Measuring Power with a Saturated PhotodiodeAccurate measurement of optical power is pivotal in many applications and scientific research. However, traditional power meters are unable to measure power levels beyond a certain saturation point,…Shiekh Zia Uddin·Jan 7, 2023SaveLearn
A Simulation Study for the Expected Performance of Sharjah-Sat-1 payload improved X-Ray Detector (iXRD) in the Orbital Background RadiationSharjah-Sat-1 is a 3U cubesat with a CdZnTe based hard X-ray detector, called iXRD (improved X-ray Detector) as a scientific payload with the primary objective of monitoring bright X-ray sources in…Ali M. Altingun, Emrah Kalemci, Efe Oztaban·Jan 7, 2023SaveLearn
J-PET detection modules based on plastic scintillators for performing studies with positron and positronium beamsThe J-PET detector, which consists of inexpensive plastic scintillators, has demonstrated its potential in the study of fundamental physics. In recent years, a prototype with 192 plastic…S. Sharma, J. Baran, R. S. Brusa et al.·Jan 7, 2023SaveLearn
Mimicking non-ideal instrument behavior for hologram processing using neural style translationHolographic cloud probes provide unprecedented information on cloud particle density, size and position. Each laser shot captures particles within a large volume, where images can be computationally…John S. Schreck, Matthew Hayman, Gabrielle Gantos et al.·Jan 7, 2023SaveLearn
ARIADNE+: Large scale demonstration of fast optical readout for dual-phase LArTPCs at the CERN Neutrino PlatformOptical readout of large scale dual-phase liquid Argon TPCs is an attractive alternative to charge readout and has been successfully demonstrated on a 2x2m active region within the CERN protoDUNE…Adam Lowe, Pablo Amedo, Diego González-Díaz et al.·Jan 6, 2023SaveLearn
Imaging of muon track in CsI(Tl) crystal with single photon sensitive cameraAs a novel approach on visual photon imaging by a single photon sensitive camera and PMTs, this work is trying to measure and identify muon tracks from the 2-D images of CsI(Tl) crystal (scintillator…Zhimin Wang, Min Li, Diru Wu et al.·Jan 5, 2023SaveLearn
Enabling Ice Core Science on Mars and Ocean WorldsIce deposits on Earth provide an extended record of volcanism, planetary climate, and life. On Mars, such a record may extend as far back as tens to hundreds of millions of years (My), compared to…Alexander G. Chipps, Cassius B. Tunis, Nathan Chellman et al.·Jan 5, 2023SaveLearn
Dynamic gravitational excitation of structural resonances in the hertz regime using two rotating barsWith the planning of new ambitious gravitational wave (GW) observatories, fully controlled laboratory experiments on dynamic gravitation become more and more important. Such new experiments can…Tobias Brack, Jonas Fankhauser, Bernhard Zybach et al.·Jan 4, 2023SaveLearn
New applications for the world's smallest high-precision capacitance dilatometer and its stress-implementing counterpartWe introduce a new stress dilatometer with exactly the same size and weight as the world's smallest miniature capacitance dilatometer (height x width x depth = 15 mmx14 mmx15 mm, weight: 12 g). To…R. Kuchler, R. Wawrzynczak, H. Dawczak-Debicki et al.·Jan 3, 2023SaveLearn
Improving Reflexive Surfaces Efficiency with Genetic AlgorithmsWe propose using a Genetic Algorithm to improve the efficiency of reflexive surfaces in devices where the receiver's position is different from the classic parabolic antenna. With this technique, we…A. Steklain, M. Adames, F. Ganacim·Jan 3, 2023SaveLearn
Detector and physics simulation using heavy ion collisions at NICA-SPDThe space-time picture of hadron formation in high-energy collisions with nuclear targets is still poorly known. The tests of hadron formation was suggested for the first stage of SPD running. They…R. Pandey·Jan 3, 2023SaveLearn