New aerodynamic lens injector for single particle diffractive imagingAn aerodynamic lens injector was developed specifically for the needs of single-particle diffractive imaging experiments at free-electron lasers. Its design allows for quick changes of injector…Nils Roth, Daniel A. Horke, Jannik Lübke et al.·Dec 21, 2020SaveLearn
MICROSCOPE instrument description and validationDedicated accelerometers have been developed for the MICROSCOPE mission taking into account the specific range of acceleration to be measured on board the satellite. Considering one micro-g and even…Françoise Liorzou, Pierre Touboul, Manuel Rodrigues et al.·Dec 21, 2020SaveLearn
A time resolved study of injection backgrounds during the first commissioning phase of SuperKEKBWe report on measurements of beam backgrounds during the first commissioning phase of the SuperKEKB collider in 2016, performed with the plastic scintillator and silicon photomultiplier-based CLAWS…Miroslav Gabriel, Frank Simon, Hendrik Windel et al.·Dec 20, 2020SaveLearn
Atmospheric Pressure Mass Spectrometry of Single Viruses and Nanoparticles by Nanoelectromechanical SystemsMass spectrometry of intact nanoparticles and viruses can serve as a potent characterization tool for material science and biophysics. Inaccessible by widespread commercial techniques, the mass of…R. Tufan Erdogan, Mohammed Alkhaled, Batuhan E. Kaynak et al.·Dec 19, 2020SaveLearn
A Model for Crosstalk in Micropattern Gas DetectorsCrosstalk characteristics such as pulse amplitude and shape are studied with a simple PSpice model of the capacitive couplings within an MPGD. The crosstalk pulse shape can be understood as due to a…M. Hohlmann·Dec 19, 2020SaveLearn
Soft X-ray spectroscopies in liquids and at solid-liquid interface at BACH beamline at ElettraThe Beamline for Advanced diCHroism (BACH) of the Istituto Officina dei Materiali-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IOM-CNR), operating at Elettra synchrotron in Trieste (Italy), works in the…Silvia Nappini, Luca D'Amario, Marco Favaro et al.·Dec 19, 2020SaveLearn
The Cryogenics and Xenon handling system for the PandaX-4T ExperimentPandaX-4T, the new generation of the PandaX detector, is a xenon dual-phase detector with about six tons of liquid xenon as target for dark matter search. A cryogenics and xenon handling system is…Li Zhao, Xiangyi Cui, Wenbo Ma et al.·Dec 19, 2020SaveLearn
Moveable Thermometer System in ProtoDUNEThe movable temperature profiler is a 7 m vertical array of 24 sensors that measures cryogenic temperatures with a precision of a few mK. This precision is necessary to monitor the efficiency of…R. Dharmapalan·Dec 19, 2020SaveLearn
Imaging neutron capture cross sections: i-TED proof-of-concept and future prospects based on Machine-Learning techniquesi-TED is an innovative detection system which exploits Compton imaging techniques to achieve a superior signal-to-background ratio in (n,γ) cross-section measurements using time-of-flight…V. Babiano-Suárez, J. Lerendegui-Marco, J. Balibrea-Correa et al.·Dec 18, 2020SaveLearn
Precisely determining photon-number in real-timeSuperconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) are extremely sensitive microcalorimeters used as photon detectors with unparalleled energy resolution. They have found application from measuring…Leonardo Assis Morais, Till Weinhold, Marcelo Pereira de Almeida et al.·Dec 18, 2020SaveLearn
Smart-readout of the Skipper-CCD: Achieving Sub-electron Noise Levels in Regions of InterestThe skipper CCD is a special type of charge coupled device in which the readout noise can be reduced to sub-electron levels by averaging independent measurements of the same charge. Thus the charge…Fernando Chierchie, Guillermo Fernandez Moroni, Leandro Stefanazzi et al.·Dec 18, 2020SaveLearn
Single-photon detection in the mid-infrared up to 10 micron wavelength using tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire detectorsWe developed superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) based on tungsten silicide (WSi) that show saturated internal detection efficiency up to a wavelength of 10 um. These detectors…V. B. Verma, B. Korzh, A. B. Walter et al.·Dec 17, 2020SaveLearn
The upgrade of the ALICE TPC with GEMs and continuous readoutThe upgrade of the ALICE TPC will allow the experiment to cope with the high interaction rates foreseen for the forthcoming Run 3 and Run 4 at the CERN LHC. In this article, we describe the design of…J. Adolfsson, M. Ahmed, S. Aiola et al.·Dec 17, 2020SaveLearn
The CoESCA station at BESSY: Auger electron-Photoelectron coincidences from surfaces demonstrated for Ag MNNIn this work, we present the CoESCA station for electron-electron coincidence spectroscopy from surfaces, built in a close collaboration between Uppsala University and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin at the…T. Leitner, A. Born, I. Bidermane et al.·Dec 17, 2020SaveLearn
Deep-Learned Broadband Encoding Stochastic Filters for Computational Spectroscopic InstrumentsComputational spectroscopic instruments with Broadband Encoding Stochastic (BEST) filters allow the reconstruction of the spectrum at high precision with only a few filters. However, conventional…Hongya Song, Yaoguang Ma, Yubing Han et al.·Dec 17, 2020SaveLearn
A method for sharing dynamic geometry information in studies on liquid-based detectorsThe liquid-based detectors are widely used in particle and nuclear physics experiments. Due to the fixed way of constructing geometry in detector simulation such as Geant4, it is usually difficult to…Shu Zhang, Jing-Shu Li, Yang-Jie Su et al.·Dec 16, 2020SaveLearn
Photonic integrated circuits for life sciencesWe report on the use of silicon nitride (SiN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in high-value instrumentation, namely multi-color laser engines (MLEs), a core element of cutting-edge biophotonic…Jeremy Witzens, Patrick Leisching, Alireza T. Mashayekh et al.·Dec 15, 2020SaveLearn
Approximation of the emission coefficient for thermography by the combination of geometrical and spectral information -- ThermoHeadThermography allows for the remote measurement of surface temperatures and is widely used for the identification of energy losses, damage detection or quality control. However, thermal imaging is…Sebastian Fiedler, Roland Clauß, Hartmut Clauß et al.·Dec 15, 2020SaveLearn
New data acquisition system of the Lintott magnetic spectrometer at the S-DALINACA new data acquisition system for the high resolution magnetic spectrometer Lintott at the superconducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator S-DALINAC was developed. It allows inclusive and…M. Singer, U. Bonnes, A. D'Alessio et al.·Dec 15, 2020SaveLearn
Positional Dependence of Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) in a Monolithic CLLB CrystalWe report on the results of the positional-dependent pulse shape discrimination (PSD) parameter observed within a monolithic CLLB scintillation crystal. CLLB, a relatively novel inorganic…Richard S. Woolf, Bernard F. Phlips, Anthony L. Hutcheson et al.·Dec 15, 2020SaveLearn
Spectroscopic analysis of the argon scintillation with a wavelength sensitive particle detectorWe performed a time-resolved spectroscopic study of the VUV/UV argon scintillation as a function of pressure and electric field, by means of a wavelength sensitive detector operated with different…R. Santorelli, E. Sanchez Garcia, P. Garcia Abia et al.·Dec 15, 2020SaveLearn
Semantic Segmentation with a Sparse Convolutional Neural Network for Event Reconstruction in MicroBooNEWe present the performance of a semantic segmentation network, SparseSSNet, that provides pixel-level classification of MicroBooNE data. The MicroBooNE experiment employs a liquid argon time…MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed et al.·Dec 14, 2020SaveLearn
High-Power Near-Concentric Fabry-Perot Cavity for Phase Contrast Electron MicroscopyTransmission electron microscopy (TEM) of vitrified biological macromolecules (cryo-EM) is limited by the weak phase contrast signal that is available from such samples. Using a phase plate would…Carter Turnbaugh, Jeremy J. Axelrod, Sara L. Campbell et al.·Dec 14, 2020SaveLearn
High-precision measurements of krypton and xenon isotopes with a new static-mode Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass SpectrometerMeasuring the abundance and isotopic composition of noble gases in planetary atmospheres can answer fundamental questions in cosmochemistry and comparative planetology. However, noble gases are rare…G. Avice, A. Belousov, K. A. Farley et al.·Dec 13, 2020SaveLearn
CMS track reconstruction performance during Run 2 and developments for Run 3An efficient and precise reconstruction of charged-particle tracks is crucial for the overall performance of the CMS experiment. During Run 2 of LHC, significant upgrades were made to the track…Walaa Elmetenawee·Dec 13, 2020SaveLearn