Laser Driven Nuclear physics at ELINPHigh power lasers have proven being capable to produce high energy gamma rays, charged particles and neutrons to induce all kinds of nuclear reactions. At ELI, the studies with high power lasers will…F. Negoita, M. Roth, P. G. Thirolf et al.·Jan 4, 2022SaveLearn
Fieldable Muon Momentum Measurement using Coupled Pressurized Gaseous Cherenkov DetectorsCosmic ray muons present a large part of the radiation background and depending on the application of interest muons can be seen as background noise, e.g., radiation mapping, radiation protection,…Junghyun Bae, Stylianos Chatzidakis·Jan 4, 2022SaveLearn
Performance of a prototype bakelite RPC at GIF++ using self-triggered electronics for the CBM Experiment at FAIRThe Muon Chamber (MuCh) is a sub-system of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment for the detection of low-mass-vector mesons produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions at beam energies…Mitali Mondal, Tanay Dey, Subhasis Chattopadhyay et al.·Jan 3, 2022SaveLearn
Operation of a Continuous Flow Liquid Helium Magnetic Microscopy Cryostat as a Closed Cycle SystemWe demonstrate successful operation of a continuous flow liquid helium magnetic cryostat (Oxford Instruments, Microstat MO) in closed cycle operation using a modular cryocooling system (ColdEdge…K. Barr, T. Cookson, K. G. Lagoudakis·Jan 3, 2022SaveLearn
First operation of undoped CsI directly coupled with SiPMs at 77 KelvinThe light yield of a small undoped cesium iodide (CsI) crystal directly coupled with two silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) at about 77~Kelvin was measured to be 43.0 1.1~photoelectrons (PE) per…Keyu Ding, Jing Liu, Yongjin Yang et al.·Jan 3, 2022SaveLearn
Fieldable muon spectrometer using multi-layer pressurized gas Cherenkov radiators and its applicationsCosmic ray muons have been considered as a non-conventional radiation probe in various applications. To utilize cosmic ray muons in engineering applications, two important quantities, trajectory and…Junghyun Bae, Stylianos Chatzidakis·Jan 1, 2022SaveLearn
Radon Emanation from Dust of Varying Composition and Size222Rn emanating from environmental dust constitutes an important background component for many low-energy, low-rate experiments. Radon emanation rates from dust and rock, thus, are important for…Yue Meng, Jerry Busenitz, Andreas Piepke et al.·Dec 31, 2021SaveLearn
Radon Mitigation Applications at the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc (LSC)The Laboratorio Subterra neo de Canfranc (LSC) is the national hub for low radioactivity techniques and the associated scientific and technological applications. The concentration of the airborne…J. Perez-Perez, J. C. Amare, I. C. Bandac et al.·Dec 31, 2021SaveLearn
Ultra-wideband electrostrictive mechanical antennaConventional mechanical antennas provide a strategy in long-wave communication with a surprisingly compact size below 1/1,000 of the wavelength. However, the narrow bandwidth and weak field intensity…Jianchun Xu, Zhao Li, Xuchao Pan et al.·Dec 30, 2021SaveLearn
Experimental study of the positive ion feedback from gas to liquid in a dual-phase argon chamber and measurement of the ion mobility in argon gasThe dynamics of the positive ions created by particle interactions inside argon time projection chambers plays an important role in characterizing the next generation of massive detectors planned for…Luciano Romero, Roberto Santorelli, Edgar Sánchez García et al.·Dec 29, 2021SaveLearn
Measurements of Beam Backgrounds in SuperKEKB Phase 2The high design luminosity of the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider will result in challenging levels of beam-induced backgro\ unds in the interaction region. Understanding and mitigating these…Zachary J. Liptak, Antonio Paladino, Luka Santelj et al.·Dec 29, 2021SaveLearn
Quality Inspection Aspects of Hybrid Prototypes for the CMS Outer Tracker Upgrade at HL-LHCAt the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the CMS experiment will need to operate at up to 200 interactions per 25 ns beam crossing time and with up to 4000 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. To achieve the…A. La Rosa, I. Ahmed, J. Almeida et al.·Dec 28, 2021SaveLearn
Development of a Simulation Model and Precise Timing Techniques for PICOSEC-Micromegas DetectorsThis work aims at the development of signal processing algorithms that can explore the potential of a PICOSEC-MicroMegas detector and offers the ability for online, precise timing. The…Alexandra Kallitsopoulou·Dec 28, 2021SaveLearn
Tracking and Vertex detectors at FCC-eeThe combined vertexing and tracking performance of the innermost part of the FCC-ee experiments must deliver outstanding precision for measurement of the track momentum together with an impact…Nicola Barchetta, Paula Collins, Petra Riedler·Dec 24, 2021SaveLearn
A flexible and low-cost open-source IPMC mezzanine for ATCA boards based on OpenIPMCThis work presents the development of an Intelligent Platform Management Controller mezzanine in a Mini DIMM form factor for use in electronic boards compliant to the PICMG Advanced Telecommunication…Luigi Calligaris, Andre Cascadan, Luis Eduardo Ardila-Perez et al.·Dec 24, 2021SaveLearn
Impact of the superconductors properties on the measurement sensitivity of resonant-based axion detectorsAxions, hypothetical particles theorized to solve the strong CP-problem, are presently being considered as strong candidates as cold dark matter constituents. The signal power of resonant-based axion…Andrea Alimenti, Kostiantyn Torokhtii, Daniele Di Gioacchino et al.·Dec 23, 2021SaveLearn
Microchannel cooling for the LHCb VELO Upgrade IThe LHCb VELO Upgrade I, currently being installed for the 2022 start of LHC Run 3, uses silicon microchannel coolers with internally circulating bi-phase for thermal control of hybrid pixel…Oscar Augusto De Aguiar Francisco, Wiktor Byczynski, Kazu Akiba et al.·Dec 23, 2021SaveLearn
Gadolinium Loaded Cherenkov Detectors for Neutron Monitoring in High Energy Air ShowersMonitoring of high energy cosmic ray neutrons is of particular interest for cosmic ray water Cherenkov detectors as intense bundles of delayed neutrons have been found to arrive after the initial…P. Stowell, S. Fargher, L. F. Thompson et al.·Dec 23, 2021SaveLearn
Concept of a fast neutron detector based on 10B-RPCsWe propose an alternative approach for the detection of fast neutrons in the energy range from 10-4 to 5 MeV based on 10B-RPCs (hybrid double-gap Resistive Plate Chambers with 10B4C neutron…A. Morozov, L. M. S. Margato, A. Blanco et al.·Dec 23, 2021SaveLearn
Effect of hole geometry on charge sharing and other parameters in GEM-based detectorsGas Electron Multipliers (GEM) are among the more prominent Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) and widely used in high energy particle physics experiments and various related applications.…Promita Roy, Purba Bhattacharya, Prasant Kumar Rout et al.·Dec 23, 2021SaveLearn
Directionality and head-tail recognition in the keV-range with the MIMAC detector by deconvolution of the ionic signalDirectional detection is the only strategy for the unambiguous identification of galactic Dark Matter (DM) even in the presence of an irreducible background such as beyond the neutrino floor. This…Cyprien Beaufort, Olivier Guillaudin, Jean-François Muraz et al.·Dec 23, 2021SaveLearn
Application and modeling of an online distillation method to reduce krypton and argon in XENON1TA novel online distillation technique was developed for the XENON1T dark matter experiment to reduce intrinsic background components more volatile than xenon, such as krypton or argon, while the…E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini et al.·Dec 22, 2021SaveLearn
Effect of energy leakage on the energy resolution of E.M. sampling calorimetersThe electromagnetic sampling calorimeters of the SPD experiment (NICA collider) are being investigated by Monte Carlo method. The simulation is used to study in detail the influence of energy…O. P. Gavrishchuk, V. E. Kovtun, T. V. Malykhina·Dec 22, 2021SaveLearn
Light Output Quenching in Response to Deuterium-ions and Alpha Particles and Pulse Shape Discrimination in Deuterated Trans-stilbeneWe characterized the light output response of a new 140 cm3 stilbene-d12 crystal up to 14.1 MeV neutron energies using a coincidence neutron scattering system. We also characterized its light output…J. Zhou, N. Gaughan, F. D. Becchetti et al.·Dec 22, 2021SaveLearn
Dense and long-term monitoring of Earth surface processes with passive RFID -- a reviewBillions of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) passive tags are produced yearly to identify goods remotely. New research and business applications are continuously arising, including recently…Mathieu Le Breton, Frédéric Liébault, Laurent Baillet et al.·Dec 22, 2021SaveLearn