Time-Of-Flight methodologies with large-area diamond detectors for ion characterization in laser-driven experimentsTime-Of-Flight (TOF) technique coupled with semiconductor detectors is a powerful instrument to provide real-time characterization of ions accelerated because of laser-matter interactions.…M. Salvadori, G. Di Giorgio, M. Cipriani et al.·Oct 29, 2021SaveLearn
222Rn content variations at ground and underground conditionsThe activity of 222Rn and its daughter isotopes was measured in the air of several underground laboratories of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory at various distances from the entrance. The…R. A. Etezov, Yu. M. Gavrilyuk, A. M. Gangapshev et al.·Oct 28, 2021SaveLearn
The trigger and data acquisition system of the FASER experimentThe FASER experiment is a new small and inexpensive experiment that is placed 480 meters downstream of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC. FASER is designed to capture decays of new long-lived…FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, Elham Amin Mansour et al.·Oct 28, 2021SaveLearn
Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPCThe Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a leading-edge experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies, neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. ProtoDUNE-Dual Phase…I. Gil-Botella·Oct 28, 2021SaveLearn
A Cosmic Ray Muon Spectrometer Using Pressurized Gaseous Cherenkov RadiatorsIn this work, we propose a new approach to cosmic ray muon momentum measurement using multiple pressurized gaseous Cherenkov radiators. Knowledge of cosmic ray muon momentum has the potential to…Junghyun Bae, Stylianos Chatzidakis·Oct 27, 2021SaveLearn
Characterization of a high bandwidth readout chain for the CMS Phase-2 pixel upgradeThe CMS collaboration is building a new inner tracking pixel detector for the High-Luminosity LHC. Each pixel readout chip will be controlled with a single serial input stream at 160 Mbps and will…Caleb Smith·Oct 26, 2021SaveLearn
A direct test of Auger cascade induced nucleation from heavy element contamination in C3F8 bubble chambersUnderstanding and quantifying the gamma-induced bubble nucleation background in clean nuclear recoil detection bubble chambers is of utmost importance to bubble chamber based dark matter searches. We…M. Bressler, N. Lamb, R. Neilson et al.·Oct 26, 2021SaveLearn
Wire-Cell 3D Pattern Recognition Techniques for Neutrino Event Reconstruction in Large LArTPCs: Algorithm Description and Quantitative Evaluation with MicroBooNE SimulationWire-Cell is a 3D event reconstruction package for liquid argon time projection chambers. Through geometry, time, and drifted charge from multiple readout wire planes, 3D space points with associated…MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An et al.·Oct 26, 2021SaveLearn
Low-energy reactor neutrino physics with the CONNIE experimentThe Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) uses fully depleted high-resistivity CCDs (charge coupled devices) with the aim of detecting the coherent elastic scattering of reactor…Irina Nasteva·Oct 26, 2021SaveLearn
Cherenkov and Scintillation Separation in Water-Based Liquid Scintillator using an LAPPDThis manuscript describes measurements of water-based liquid scintillators (WbLS), demonstrating separation of the Cherenkov and scintillation components using the fast timing response of a Large…T. Kaptanoglu, E. J. Callaghan, M. Yeh et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
Analysis of the background on cross section measurements with the MAGNEX spectrometer: the (20Ne,20O) Double Charge Exchange caseThe MAGNEX magnetic spectrometer is used in the experimental measurements of Double Charge Exchange and Multi-Nucleon Transfer reactions induced by heavy ions within the NUMEN project. These…S. Calabrese, F. Cappuzzello, D. Carbone et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
Stability of bakeable capacitance diaphragm gaugesHere, we study the stability of capacitance diaphragm gauges. We focus on their stability before and after a controlled series of bakes. We find that baking results in appreciable shifts of the zero…Julia Scherschligt, Daniel Barker, Stephen Eckel et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
Ultracold neutron storage and transport at the PSI UCN sourceEfficient neutron transport is a key ingredient to the performance of ultracold neutron (UCN) sources, important to meeting the challenges placed by high precision fundamental physics experiments. At…G. Bison, M. Daum, K. Kirch et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
An upgraded focal plane detector for the MAGNEX spectrometerAn upgraded and improved version of the focal plane detector (FPD) of the large-acceptance magnetic spectrometer MAGNEX is described here. The FPD consists of a tracker operating at low pressure and…D. Torresi, O. Sgouros, V. Soukeras et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)Poly Ethylene Naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial polymer plastic which is investigated as a low background, transparent, scintillating and wavelength shifting structural material. PEN scintillates in…Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro, F. Fischer et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
POWTEX visits POWGENThe high-intensity time-of-flight neutron diffractometer POWTEX for powder and texture analysis is currently being built to be operated in the eastern guide hall of the research reactor FRM II near…Andreas Houben, Philipp Jacobs, Yannick Meinerzhagen et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
Prototype Design of a Timing and Fast Control system in the CBM ExperimentThe Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment is designed to handle interaction rates of up to 10 MHz and up to 1 TB/s of raw data generated. With triggerless streaming data acquisition in the…V. Sidorenko, I. Fröhlich, W. F. J. Müller et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
Ultra-low jitter clock distribution for the trigger electronics of the New Small Wheel for the ATLAS experimentThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN plans to have a series of upgrades to increase its instantaneous luminosity to 7.5 the nominal luminosity. The increased luminosity drastically impacts the…T. Alexopoulos, T. Geralis, P. Gkountoumis et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
Effects of shallow carbon and deep N++ layer on the radiation hardness of IHEP-IME LGAD sensorsLow Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) is applied for the High-Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD), and it will be used to upgrade the ATLAS experiment. The first batch IHEP-IME LGAD sensors were designed by…Mengzhao Li, Yunyun Fan, Xuewei Jia et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
QTIA, a 2.5 or 10 Gbps 4-Channel Array Optical Receiver ASIC in a 65 nm CMOS TechnologyThe Quad transimpedance and limiting amplifier (QTIA) is a 4-channel array optical receiver ASIC, developed using a 65 nm CMOS process. It is configurable between the bit rate of 2.56 Gbps and 10…H. Sun, X. Huang, C. -P. Chao et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
A radiation tolerant clock generator for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer readout chipWe present the test results of a low jitter Phase Locked Loop (PLL) prototype chip for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer readout chip (ETROC). This chip is based on the improved version of a clock…H. Sun, Q. Sun, S. Biereigel et al.·Oct 25, 2021SaveLearn
The charge sensitivity calibration of the upgraded ALICE Inner Tracking SystemThe ALICE detector is undergoing an upgrade for Run 3 at the LHC. A new Inner Tracking System (ITS) is part of this upgrade. The upgraded ALICE ITS features the ALPIDE, a Monolithic Active Pixel…Shiming Yuan, Johan Alme, Markus Keil et al.·Oct 24, 2021SaveLearn
Compact Scintillator Array Detector (ComSAD) for sounding rocket and CubeSat missionsThe development of CubeSat and more frequent launch chances of sounding rockets are a total game changer to the space program, and it allows us to build space instruments to be more achievable and…Pu Kai Wang, Chih-Yun Chen, Hsiang-Chieh Hsu et al.·Oct 24, 2021SaveLearn
Design and testing of an sTGC ASIC interface board for the ATLAS New Small Wheel upgradeThe ATLAS experiment will replace the present Small Wheel (SW) detector with a New Small Wheel detector (NSW) aiming to improve the performance of muon triggering and precision tracking in the endcap…Xu Wang, Liang Guan, Siyuan Sun et al.·Oct 24, 2021SaveLearn
DIAMASIC: A multichannel front-end electronics for high-accuracy time measurements for diamond detectorsThis paper describes the design and testing results of an 8 channels preamplifier-discriminator circuit based on a resistive feedback Transimpedance Amplifier architecture and a Leading-Edge…Abderrahmane Ghimouz, Fatah Ellah Rarbi, Olivier Rossetto·Oct 24, 2021SaveLearn