Improving Time and Position Resolution of RPC detectors using Time Over Threshold InformationINO-ICAL is a proposed underground particle physics experiment to study the neutrino oscillation parameters by detecting neutrinos produced in the atmospheric air showers. Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) is…Jim M John, S. Pethuraj, G. Majumder et al.·Jan 23, 2022SaveLearn
Dialing back time on Timepix3: A study on the timing performance of Timepix3For the advancement of the understanding of timing systematics in pixelized readout chips and for the benefit of future fast timing detectors to aid 4D tracking technology in the HL-LHC, we have…R. Geertsema·Jan 23, 2022SaveLearn
Rate capability of large-area triple-GEM detectors and new foil design for the innermost station, ME0, of the CMS endcap muon systemTo extend the acceptance of the CMS muon spectrometer to the region 2.4 <|η|< 2.8, stacks of triple-GEM chambers, forming the ME0 station, are planned for the CMS Phase 2 Upgrade. These…Michele Bianco, Francesco Fallavollita, Davide Fiorina et al.·Jan 22, 2022SaveLearn
Simulated Thick, Fully-Depleted CCD Exposures Analyzed with Deep Learning TechniquesThick, Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have recently been explored for applied physics, such as nuclear explosion monitoring, and dark matter detection purposes. When run in fully-depleted mode, these…C. Britt, E. Church, T. Hossbach et al.·Jan 22, 2022SaveLearn
Tuning of gain layer doping concentration and Carbon implantation effect on deep gain layerNext generation Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGAD) produced by Hamamatsu photonics (HPK) and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) were tested before and after irradiation with ~1MeV neutrons at the JSI…S. M. Mazza, C. Gee, Y. Zhao et al.·Jan 22, 2022SaveLearn
The ALICE Experiment UpgradesThe ALICE experiment profited of the Long Shutdown during 2019-2021 in order to expand its physics capabilities and fully profit from the increased LHC luminosity in Run 3. The Inner Tracking System…A. Ferretti·Jan 21, 2022SaveLearn
Readout system and testbeam results of the RD50-MPW2 HV-CMOS pixel chipThe RD50-CMOS group aims to design and study High Voltage CMOS (HVCMOS) chips for use in a high radiation environment. Currently, measurements are performed on RD50-MPW2 chip, the second prototype…Patrick Sieberer, Thomas Bergauer, Klemens Floeckner et al.·Jan 21, 2022SaveLearn
Engineering of Form Factor in Rotationally Symmetric Photonic Cavities for Faster Axion SearchesForm factor can be engineered in photonic cavities such that it dramatically increases the scan speed of axion haloscope detectors. Using higher-order modes of a photonic cavity, we can probe axions…Mohamed H. Awida·Jan 20, 2022SaveLearn
Simulation of Graphene Nanoplatelets for NO2 and CO Gas Sensing at Room TemperatureThis work reports the modeling and simulation of gas sensors made from pristine graphene nanoplatelets (P-GnPs) using COMSOL Multiphysics software. The mass balance equation was solved while…Olasunbo Farinre, Swapnil M. Mhatre, Albert F. Rigosi et al.·Jan 20, 2022SaveLearn
FPGA-based real-time data processing for accelerating reconstruction at LHCbIn Run-3, beginning in 2022, the LHCb software trigger will start reconstructing events at the LHC average crossing rate of 30 MHz. Within the upgraded DAQ system, LHCb established a testbed for new…F. Lazzari, W. Baldini, G. Bassi et al.·Jan 20, 2022SaveLearn
A feasibility study of extruded plastic scintillator embedding WLS fiber for AMoRE-II muon vetoAMoRE-II is the second phase of the Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare process Experiment aiming to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay of 100Mo isotopes using ~ 200 kg of…J. W. Seo, W. T. Kim, Y. D. Kim et al.·Jan 20, 2022SaveLearn
OpenMetBuoy-V2021: an easy-to-build, affordable, customizable, open source instrument for oceanographic measurements of drift and waves in sea ice and the open oceanThere is a wide consensus within the polar science, meteorology, and oceanography communities that more in-situ observations of the ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice, are required to further improve…Jean Rabault, Takehiko Nose, Gaute Hope et al.·Jan 19, 2022SaveLearn
Characterization of BNL and HPK AC-LGAD sensors with a 120 GeV proton beamWe present measurements of AC-LGADs performed at the Fermilab's test beam facility using 120 GeV protons. We studied the performance of various strip and pad AC-LGAD sensors that were produced by BNL…Ryan Heller, Christopher Madrid, Artur Apresyan et al.·Jan 19, 2022SaveLearn
Using the Standard Linear Ramps of the CMS Superconducting Magnet for Measuring the Magnetic Flux Density in the Steel Flux Return YokeThe principal difficulty in large magnetic systems having an extensive flux return yoke is to characterize the magnetic flux distribution in the yoke steel blocks. Continuous measurements of the…Vyacheslav Klyukhin, Benoit Curé, Nicola Amapane et al.·Jan 19, 2022SaveLearn
Microfluidic lab-on-a-chip characterization of nano- to microparticles suspensions by light extinction spectrometryThe analysis of nano-and microparticle suspensions with micro systems affords improved space-time yields, selectivity, reaction residence times and conversions capabilities. These capabilities are of…F. Onofri, Isaac Rodríguez-Ruiz, Fabrice Lamadie et al.·Jan 19, 2022SaveLearn
Effects of polarization modulation induced by electro-optic modulators in fiber-based setupsUsing the Jones formalism, it is shown that electro-optic modulators used for phase modulation generate a modulation of the output polarization induced by the difference of phase modulation depth…Frédéric Du-Burck, Karim Manamanni, Tatiana Steshchenko et al.·Jan 19, 2022SaveLearn
Limitations due to residual interference in a fiber-based optical frequency reference at 1.55 μmWe present an experimental investigation of the stability limits specific to optical frequency standards using a fiber-optic architecture and semiconductor lasers. A compact setup composed of a…Karim Manamanni, Tatiana Steshchenko, Fabrice Wiotte et al.·Jan 19, 2022SaveLearn
Simulation of a first case study for magnetic field imaging with the Magic-μ techniqueSo far, most of the developments in muography (or cosmic-ray muon radiography) have been based on either the scattering or the absorption of cosmic-ray muons produced by the nuclear interactions…Hamid Basiri, Tadahiro Kin, Naoya Okamoto et al.·Jan 19, 2022SaveLearn
A wide swing charge sensitive amplifier for a prototype Si-W EM calorimeterA wide swing charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) has been developed, as a part of a front-end electronics (FEE) readout ASIC, for a prototype silicon tungsten (Si-W) based electromagnetic (EM)…Sourav Mukhopadhyay, Vinay B. Chandratre, Sanjib Muhuri et al.·Jan 19, 2022SaveLearn
Comparison of the Baseline and the Minimal Steel Yoke Superconducting Magnets for the Future Circular Hadron-Hadron ColliderThe conceptual design study of a hadron Future Circular hadron-hadron Collider (FCC-hh) with a center-of-mass energy of the order of 100 TeV assumes using in the experimental detector the…V. I. Klyukhin, A. Ball, C. P. Berriaud et al.·Jan 18, 2022SaveLearn
Design and performance of a scintillation tracker for track matching in nuclear-emulsion-based neutrino interaction measurementPrecise measurement of neutrino-nucleus interactions with an accelerator neutrino beam is highly important for current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. To measure muon-neutrino…Takahiro Odagawa, Tsutomu Fukuda, Ayami Hiramoto et al.·Jan 18, 2022SaveLearn
An Alternative Design for Large Scale Liquid Scintillator DetectorsThe construction of large-scale liquid scintillator detectors is complicated by the need to separate the scintillation region from photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) due to their intrinsic radioactivity.…Iwan Morton-Blake, Steven D. Biller·Jan 17, 2022SaveLearn
Development of a resource-efficient FPGA-based neural network regression model for the ATLAS muon trigger upgradesThis paper reports on the development of a resource-efficient FPGA-based neural network regression model for potential applications in the future hardware muon trigger system of the ATLAS experiment…Rustem Ospanov, Changqing Feng, Wenhao Dong et al.·Jan 17, 2022SaveLearn
Focusing of an Atomic BeamA bent-crystal mirror has been used to focus an atomic helium beam. The mirror is made from gold deposited onto a mica substrate to form a thin film (~5000 thick) of large single crystal…R. Bruce Doak·Jan 17, 2022SaveLearn
Operation and performance of a dual-phase crystalline/vapor xenon time projection chamberWe have built and operated a crystalline/vapor xenon TPC, with the goal of improving searches for dark matter. The motivation for this instrument is the fact that beta decays from the radon decay…S. Kravitz, H. Chen, R. Gibbons et al.·Jan 15, 2022SaveLearn