CUORE Opens the Door to Tonne-scale Cryogenics ExperimentsThe past few decades have seen major developments in the design and operation of cryogenic particle detectors. This technology offers an extremely good energy resolution - comparable to semiconductor…CUORE Collaboration, D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino et al.·Aug 17, 2021SaveLearn
Sensitivity analysis towards trace-uranium detection with γ-γ coincidence NAAWe present an improved approach for detection of trace amounts of 238U by means of neutron activation analysis (NAA). The analysis enhancement is obtained by utilizing γ-γ coincidence…Raymond Hei Man Tsang, Omar Nusair, Andreas Piepke·Aug 17, 2021SaveLearn
Radiation Hardness Study of the ePix100 Sensor and ASIC under Direct Illumination at the European XFELThe ePix detector family provides multiple variants of hybrid pixel detectors to support a wide range of applications at free electron laser facilities. We present the results of a systematic study…I. Klačková, K. Ahmed, G. Blaj et al.·Aug 17, 2021SaveLearn
A new technique of linseed oil coating in bakelite RPC and the first test resultsSingle gap Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is one of the very popular gaseous detectors used in high-energy physics experiments nowadays. It is a very fast detector having low cost of fabrication. The…A. Sen, S. Chatterjee, S. Das et al.·Aug 16, 2021SaveLearn
Extension of the operation mode of back-streaming white neutron beam at the China spallation neutron sourceThe back-streaming white neutron source (Back-n) is a comprehensive neutron experimental platform for nuclear data measurement, nuclear astrophysics, neutron irradiation, detector calibration, etc.…Xiaolong Gaoa, Hantao Jing, Chungui Duan et al.·Aug 16, 2021SaveLearn
The Florence Trigger-Box (FTB) project: an FPGA-based configurable and scalable trigger systemA multi-layer trigger system, based on programmable logic devices hosted on VME boards, has been implemented. It is completely scalable and suitable for handling from a few up to a few hundred…Pietro Ottanelli, Gabriele Pasquali, Lucia Baldesi et al.·Aug 13, 2021SaveLearn
A metamaterial with applications in broad band antennas used in radio astronomy and satellite communicationsElectromagnetic metamaterials at microwave frequencies are well established in industry and research. Recent work has shown how a specific kind of metallic metamaterial can contribute towards…Javier De Miguel, Cristian Franceschet, Sabrina Realini et al.·Aug 12, 2021SaveLearn
Commissioning and testing of pre-series triple GEM prototypes for CBM-MuCh in the mCBM experiment at the SIS18 facility of GSILarge area triple GEM chambers will be employed in the first two stations of the MuCh system of the CBM experiment at the upcoming Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR in Darmstadt/Germany.…A. Kumar, A. Agarwal, S. Chatterjee et al.·Aug 12, 2021SaveLearn
Automating insect monitoring using unsupervised near-infrared sensorsInsect monitoring is critical to improve our understanding and ability to preserve and restore biodiversity, sustainably produce crops, and reduce vectors of human and livestock disease. However,…Klas Rydhmer, Emily Bick, Laurence Still et al.·Aug 11, 2021SaveLearn
Performance of the D-Egg Optical Sensor for the IceCube UpgradeNew optical sensors called the "D-Egg" have been developed for cost-effective instrumentation for the IceCube Upgrade. With two 8-inch high quantum efficient photomultiplier tubes (PMTs),…Colton Hill, Maximillian Meier, Ryo Nagai et al.·Aug 11, 2021SaveLearn
Low mechanical loss TiO2:GeO2 coatings for reduced thermal noise in Gravitational Wave InterferometersThe sensitivity of current and planned gravitational wave interferometric detectors is limited, in the most critical frequency region around 100 Hz, by a combination of quantum noise and thermal…Gabriele Vajente, Le Yang, Aaron Davenport et al.·Aug 10, 2021SaveLearn
Autoencoders on FPGAs for real-time, unsupervised new physics detection at 40 MHz at the Large Hadron ColliderIn this paper, we show how to adapt and deploy anomaly detection algorithms based on deep autoencoders, for the unsupervised detection of new physics signatures in the extremely challenging…Ekaterina Govorkova, Ema Puljak, Thea Aarrestad et al.·Aug 9, 2021SaveLearn
Quality control tests of the front-end optical link components for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-1 upgradeWe present the procedures and results of the quality control tests for the front-end optical link components in the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-1 upgrade. The components include a…B. Deng, J. Thomas, L. Zhang et al.·Aug 9, 2021SaveLearn
Depth-dependent charge collection profile of pad diodesThe collected charge of two pad diodes is measured along the diode width using a 5:2 GeV electron beam at the DESY II beam test facility. The electron beam enters parallel to the readout electrode…Mohammadtaghi Hajheidari, Erika Garutti, Joern Schwandt et al.·Aug 7, 2021SaveLearn
Readout electronics and data acquisition system of PandaX-4T experimentPandaX-4T is a dark matter direct detection experiment located in China jinping underground laboratory. The central apparatus is a dual-phase xenon detector containing 4 ton liquid xenon in the…Jijun Yang, Xun Chen, Changda He et al.·Aug 7, 2021SaveLearn
High resolution MCP-PMT Readout Using Transmission LinesWe study the potential of the MCP-PMT read-out to detect single photo-electron using transmission lines. Such a solution limits the number of read-out channels, has a uniform time resolution across…M. Follin, R. Chyzh, C. -H. Sung et al.·Aug 7, 2021SaveLearn
Characterization and quality control test of a gigabit cable receiver ASIC (GBCR2) for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Detector upgradeWe present the characterization and quality control test of a gigabit cable receiver ASIC prototype, GBCR2, for the ATLAS Inner Tracker pixel detector upgrade. GBCR2 equalizes and retimes the uplink…W. Zhang, C. Chen, D. Gong et al.·Aug 6, 2021SaveLearn
Design of a novel compact neutron collimatorIn this work the concept of a novel slow neutron collimator and the way to operate it are presented. The idea is based on the possibility to decouple the device field-of-view from its collimation…Roberto Bedogni, Marco Costa, Elisabetta Durisi et al.·Aug 6, 2021SaveLearn
Machine learning for surface prediction in ACTSWe present an ongoing R&D activity for machine-learning-assisted navigation through detectors to be used for track reconstruction. We investigate different approaches of training neural networks for…Benjamin Huth, Andreas Salzburger, Tilo Wettig·Aug 6, 2021SaveLearn
Scintillation yield from electronic and nuclear recoils in superfluid 4HeSuperfluid 4He is a promising target material for direct detection of light (< 1 GeV) dark matter. Possible signal channels available for readout in this medium include prompt photons, triplet…HeRALD Collaboration, A. Biekert, C. Chang et al.·Aug 4, 2021SaveLearn
Medipix3 proton and carbon ion measurements across full energy ranges and at clinical flux rates in MedAustron IR1The Medipix3, a hybrid pixel detector with a silicon sensor, has been evaluated as a beam instrumentation device with proton and carbon ion measurements in the non-clinical research room (IR1) of…Navrit Johan Singh Bal, Claus Stefan Schmitzer, Andrea De Franco et al.·Aug 4, 2021SaveLearn
Design, construction and operation of the ProtoDUNE-SP Liquid Argon TPCThe ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that was constructed and operated in the CERN North Area at the end of the H4 beamline. This detector is a…DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi et al.·Aug 4, 2021SaveLearn
A concept for the extraction of the most refractory elements at CERN-ISOLDE as carbonyl complex ionsWe introduce a novel thick-target concept tailored to the extraction of refractory 4d and 5d transition metal radionuclides of molybdenum, technetium, ruthenium and tungsten for radioactive ion beam…J. Ballof, K. Chrysalidis, Ch. E. Düllmann et al.·Aug 3, 2021SaveLearn
Embedded software developments in KM3NeT phase IThe KM3NeT Collaboration has already produced more than one thousand acquisition boards, used for building two deep-sea neutrino detectors at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, with the aim of…V. van Beveren, D. Real, T. Chiarusi et al.·Aug 3, 2021SaveLearn
Low-Dose High-Resolution TOF-PET Using Ionization-activated Multi-State Low-Z Detector MediaWe propose PET scanners using low atomic number media that undergo a persistent local change of state along the paths of the Compton recoil electrons. Measurement of the individual scattering…Joao Francisco Shida, Eric Spieglan, Bernhard W. Adams et al.·Aug 3, 2021SaveLearn