Exploring the structure of hadronic showers and the hadronic energy reconstruction with highly granular calorimetersPrototypes of electromagnetic and hadronic imaging calorimeters developed and operated by the CALICE collaboration provide an unprecedented wealth of highly granular data of hadronic showers for a…Héctor García Cabrera·Sep 20, 2022SaveLearn
Portable Resistive Plate Chambers for Muography in confined environmentsMuography (or muon radiography) is an imaging technique that relies on the use of cosmogenic muons as a free and safe radiation source. It can be applied in various fields such as archaeology, civil…R. M. I. D Gamage, Samip Basnet, Eduardo Cortina Gil et al.·Sep 20, 2022SaveLearn
Study of the Global Alignment for the DAMPE DetectorThe Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is designed as a high energy particle detector for probing cosmic-rays and γ-rays in a wide energy range. The trajectory of the incident particle is…Yu-Xin Cui, Peng-Xiong Ma, Guan-Wen Yuan et al.·Sep 20, 2022SaveLearn
The Development of the NNBAR ExperimentThe NNBAR experiment for the European Spallation Source will search for free neutrons converting to antineutrons with a sensitivity improvement of three orders of magnitude compared to the last such…F. Backman, J. Barrow, Y. Beßler et al.·Sep 19, 2022SaveLearn
Design of the PMT underwater cascade implosion protection system for JUNOPhotomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are widely used underwater in large-scale neutrino experiments. As a hollow glass spherelike structure, implosion is unavoidable during long-term operation under large…Miao He, Zhonghua Qin, Shaojing Hou et al.·Sep 18, 2022SaveLearn
Superconducting zinc heat switch for continuous nuclear demagnetization refrigerator and sub-mK experimentsWe have developed and tested a zinc superconducting heat switch suitable for magnetic refrigeration and calorimetric experiments at sub-millikevin (sub-mK) temperatures. The specific application here…Ryo Toda, Shohei Takimoto, Yuma Uematsu et al.·Sep 17, 2022SaveLearn
Thin Film Charged Particle TrackersSilicon tracking detectors have grown to cover larger surface areas up to hundreds of square meters, and are even taking over other sub-detectors, such as calorimeters. However, further improvements…Sungjoon Kim, Vikas Berry, Jessica Metcalfe et al.·Sep 16, 2022SaveLearn
Characterization of XIA UltraLo-1800 Response to Measuring Charged SamplesCommercial alpha counters are used in science and industry applications to screen materials for surface radon progeny contamination. In this paper, we characterize an XIA UltraLo-1800, an ionization…Joshua Ange, Robert Calkins, Andrew Posada·Sep 16, 2022SaveLearn
High performance cryogen-free microkelvin platformImproved accessibility to the microkelvin temperature regime is important for future research in quantum materials; for quantum information science; and for applications of quantum sensors. Here we…Jan Nyéki, Marijn Lucas, Petra Knappová et al.·Sep 16, 2022SaveLearn
Radiation Hardness of a Wide Spectral Range SiPM with Quasi-Spherical JunctionNew pixel geometries are on the rise to achieve high sensitivity in near-infrared wavelengths with silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). We test prototypes of the tip avalanche photo-diodes, which…Julius Römer, Erika Garutti, Wolfgang Schmailzl et al.·Sep 16, 2022SaveLearn
Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXOLiquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0 β β), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume,…G. Gallina, Y. Guan, F. Retiere et al.·Sep 16, 2022SaveLearn
Mitigation Strategies for 42Ar/42K Background Reduction using Encapsulation with Ultra-Pure Plastic for the LEGEND ExperimentNeutrinoless double-beta (0ββ) decay is the most compelling approach to determine the Majorana nature of neutrino and measure effective Majorana neutrino mass. The LEGEND collaboration…M. Ibrahim Mirza·Sep 15, 2022SaveLearn
Signal formation and sharing in AC-LGADs using the ALTIROC 0 front-end chipThe development of detectors that provide high resolution in four dimensions has attracted wide-spread interest in the scientific community for applications in high-energy physics, nuclear physics,…G. D'Amen, W. Chen, C. De La Taille et al.·Sep 15, 2022SaveLearn
Defect characterization studies on neutron irradiated boron-doped silicon pad diodes and Low Gain Avalanche DetectorsHigh-energy physics detectors, like Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) that will be used as fast timing detectors in the High Luminosity LHC experiments, have to exhibit a significant radiation…Anja Himmerlich, Nuria Castello-Mor, Esteban Curras Rivera et al.·Sep 15, 2022SaveLearn
Speeding axion haloscope experiments using heterodyne-variance-based detection with a power-meterWe describe a new axion search method based on measuring the variance in the interference of the axion signal using injected photons with a power detector. The need for a linear amplifier is…Zhanibek Omarov, Junu Jeong, Yannis K. Semertzidis·Sep 15, 2022SaveLearn
Letter of Interest: Ocean science with the Pacific Ocean Neutrino ExperimentThe Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) is a proposed cubic-kilometer scale neutrino telescope planned to be installed in the deep-sea of the north-east Pacific Ocean. In collaboration with the…Felix Henningsen, Lisa Schumacher·Sep 14, 2022SaveLearn
Development of Ultra-pure Gadolinium Sulfate for the Super-Kamiokande Gadolinium ProjectThis paper reports the development and detailed properties of about 13 tons of gadolinium sulfate octahydrate, Gd2( SO4)3· 8H2O, which has been dissolved into Super-Kamiokande…K. Hosokawa, M. Ikeda, T. Okada et al.·Sep 13, 2022SaveLearn
Suitability of Magnetic Microbolometers based on Paramagnetic Temperature Sensors for CMB Polarization MeasurementsHigh resolution maps of polarization anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are in high demand, since the discovery of primordial B-Modes in the polarization patterns would confirm the…Juan Manuel Geria, Matias Rolf Hampel, Sebastian Kempf et al.·Sep 13, 2022SaveLearn
LAMSkyCam: A Low-cost and Miniature Ground-based Sky CameraGround-based sky imagers (GSIs) are increasingly becoming popular amongst the remote sensing analysts. This is because such imagers offer fantastic alternatives to satellite measurements for the…Mayank Jain, Vishal Singh Sengar, Isabella Gollini et al.·Sep 13, 2022SaveLearn
Ultrafast hybrid nanocomposite scintillators: a reviewIn recent years, demand for scintillation detectors with high time resolution (better than 100 ps) has emerged in high-energy physics and medical imaging applications. In particular, time of flight…V. S. Shevelev, A. V. Ishchenko, A. S. Vanetsev et al.·Sep 13, 2022SaveLearn
Electron Identification at CMS detector using LHC dataThe Standard Model of particle physics is extremely well tested and yet is not believed to be a theory of everything. Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of new particles. The…Shoaib Khalid·Sep 12, 2022SaveLearn
Thermodynamic Stability of Xenon-Doped Liquid Argon DetectorsLiquid argon detectors are employed in a wide variety of nuclear and particle physics experiments. The addition of small quantities of xenon to argon modifies its scintillation, ionization, and…Ethan P. Bernard, Eli Mizrachi, James Kingston et al.·Sep 12, 2022SaveLearn
MAPD type avalanche photodetectorsRecent years getting progress in the area of micropixel avalanche photodiode makes them attractive as sensors for scintillation detectors. The performance of the scintillation detectors is strongly…K. Isayev, A. Mammadli, K. Khuseynzada et al.·Sep 12, 2022SaveLearn
Design of a Strong-Arm Dynamic-Latch based comparator with high speed, low power and low offset for SAR-ADCComparators are utilised by Nyquist-rate and oversampling analog to digital converters (ADCs) to accomplish quantization and perhaps sampling. Thus, comparators have a substantial effect on the speed…Sounak Dutta·Sep 9, 2022SaveLearn
Recent results with radiation-tolerant TowerJazz 180 nm MALTA SensorsTo achieve the physics goals of future colliders, it is necessary to develop novel, radiation-hard silicon sensors for their tracking detectors. We target the replacement of hybrid pixel detectors…Matt LeBlanc, Phil Allport, Igancio Asensi et al.·Sep 9, 2022SaveLearn