Charged particle identification with the liquid xenon calorimeter of the CMD-3 detectorThe paper describes a method of the charged particle identification, developed for the CMD-3 detector, installed at the VEPP-2000 e+e- collider. The method is based on the application…V. L. Ivanov, G. V. Fedotovich, R. R. Akhmetshin et al.·Aug 12, 2020SaveLearn
A measurement of absolute efficiency of the ARAPUCA photon detector in Liquid ArgonIn the Fall of 2017, two photon detector designs for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Far Detector were installed and tested in the TallBo liquid argon (LAr) cryostat at the Proton…Dante Totani, Gustavo Cancelo, Flavio Cavanna et al.·Aug 12, 2020SaveLearn
Light Yield Quenching and Quenching Remediation in Liquid Scintillator DetectorsQuenching of light emission from an LAB based scintillator by the addition of organic amines and carboxylic acids is examined. Chemical functional groups of the quenching agents play an important…S. Hans, J. B. Cumming, R. Rosero et al.·Aug 11, 2020SaveLearn
Timing performance of the LHCb VELO Timepix3 TelescopeWe performed a detailed study of the timing performance of the LHCb VELO Timepix3 Telescope with a 180 GeV/c mixed hadron beam at the CERN SPS. A twofold method was developed to improve the…K. Heijhoff, K. Akiba, M. van Beuzekom et al.·Aug 11, 2020SaveLearn
Distance-Weighted Graph Neural Networks on FPGAs for Real-Time Particle Reconstruction in High Energy PhysicsGraph neural networks have been shown to achieve excellent performance for several crucial tasks in particle physics, such as charged particle tracking, jet tagging, and clustering. An important…Yutaro Iiyama, Gianluca Cerminara, Abhijay Gupta et al.·Aug 8, 2020SaveLearn
Ultra-low vibration closed-cycle cryogenic surface-electrode ion trap apparatusWe describe the design, commissioning and operation of an ultra-low-vibration closed-cycle cryogenic ion trap apparatus. One hundred lines for low-frequency signals and eight microwave / radio…Timko Dubielzig, Sebastian Halama, Henning Hahn et al.·Aug 8, 2020SaveLearn
Copper electroplating for background suppression in the NEWS-G experimentNew Experiments with Spheres-Gas (NEWS-G) is a dark matter direct detection experiment that will operate at SNOLAB (Canada). Similar to other rare-event searches, the materials used in the detector…G Collaboration, L. Balogh, C. Beaufort et al.·Aug 7, 2020SaveLearn
Single-element dual-interferometer for precision inertial sensingTracking moving masses in several degrees of freedom with high precision and large dynamic range is a central aspect in many current and future gravitational physics experiments. Laser…Yichao Yang, Kohei Yamamoto, Victor Huarcaya et al.·Aug 7, 2020SaveLearn
Status of the Beryllium Tile Bonding Qualification activities for the Manufacturing of the ITER First WallThe preparation of the manufacturing of the ITER first wall involves a qualification stage. The qualification aims at demonstrating that manufacturers can deliver the needed reliability and quality…Raphaël Mitteau, R. Eaton, G. Perez et al.·Aug 6, 2020SaveLearn
Measurement of the dependence of ultra diluted gas transmittance on the size of the detectorWe show that measured optical transmittance of an ultra thin gas depends on the detector size. To this end we conducted an experiment that compares transmittances measured in parallel with a pair of…Jakub M. Ratajczak·Aug 6, 2020SaveLearn
New data for the definition of neutron beams for Boron Neutron Capture TherapyBoron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a neutron radiotherapy used to treat tumours cells previously doping with Boron-10. This therapy requires an epithermal neutron beam for the treatment of deep…M. Macías, B. Fernández, J. Praena·Aug 6, 2020SaveLearn
Design, Development and Comparison of two Different Measurements Devices for Time-Resolved Determination of Phase Shifts of BioimpedancesBioimpedance measurements are a non-invasive method to determine the composition of organic tissue. For measuring the complex bioimpedance between two electrodes, an alternating current with a…Roman Kusche, Steffen Kaufmann, Martin Ryschka·Aug 6, 2020SaveLearn
Effect of dc voltage pulsing on high-vacuum electrical breakdowns near Cu surfacesVacuum electrical breakdowns, also known as vacuum arcs, are a limiting factor in many devices that are based on application of high electric fields near their component surfaces. Understanding of…Anton Saressalo, Iaroslava Profatilova, William L. Millar et al.·Aug 5, 2020SaveLearn
Image-Histogram-based Secondary Electron Counting to Evaluate Detective Quantum Efficiency in SEMScanning electron microscopy is a powerful tool for nanoscale imaging of organic and inorganic materials. An important metric for characterizing the limits of performance of these microscopes is the…Akshay Agarwal, John Simonaitis, Karl K. Berggren·Aug 5, 2020SaveLearn
RNA Detection in air by means of Cosmic Rays interactionsThe study research presented hereafter shows a new methodology to reveal traces of Viral particles thanks to their own chemical structure such as P31, an element making up part of the structure of…Adlish John I., Enrico Mainardi, Piero Neuhold et al.·Aug 4, 2020SaveLearn
Detector tilt considerations in high-energy Bragg coherent diffraction imaging: a simulation studyThis paper addresses three-dimensional signal distortion and image reconstruction issues in x-ray Bragg coherent diffraction imaging (BCDI) in the event of a general non-orthogonal orientation of the…Siddharth Maddali, Marc Allain, Peng Li et al.·Aug 4, 2020SaveLearn
Tracker-In-Calorimeter (TIC): a calorimetric approach to tracking gamma rays in space experimentsA multi-messenger, space-based cosmic ray detector for gamma rays and charged particles poses several design challenges due to the different instrumental requirements for the two kind of particles.…O. Adriani, G. Ambrosi, P. Azzarello et al.·Aug 4, 2020SaveLearn
SABRE and the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory: Dark Matter Research at the Australian National UniversityThe direct detection of dark matter is a key problem in astroparticle physics that generally requires the use of deep-underground laboratories for a low-background environment where the rare signals…Lindsey J. Bignell, Elisabetta Barberio, Michaela B. Froehlich et al.·Aug 4, 2020SaveLearn
Prospect of undoped inorganic scintillators at 77 Kelvin for the detection of non-standard neutrino interactions at the Spallation Neutron SourceInvestigated in this work are sensitivities to non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) of a prototype detector placed about 20 meters away from the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge…Keyu Ding, Daniel Pershey, Dmitry Chernyak et al.·Aug 3, 2020SaveLearn
New perspectives on segmented crystal calorimeters for future collidersCrystal calorimeters have a long history of pushing the frontier on high-resolution electromagnetic (EM) calorimetry. We explore in this paper major innovations in collider detector performance that…Marco T. Lucchini, Wonyong Chung, Sarah C. Eno et al.·Aug 1, 2020SaveLearn
Fast Accurate Point of Care COVID-19 Pandemic Diagnosis Enabled Through Advanced Lab-on-a-Chip Optical Biosensors: Opportunities and ChallengesThe sudden rise of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic early 2020 throughout the world has called into drastic action measures to do instant detection and reduce the…Aref Asghari, Chao Wang, Kyoung Min Yoo et al.·Aug 1, 2020SaveLearn
Development and Performance of a Sealed Liquid Xenon Time Projection ChamberThe liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC) technology is probing a wide range of dark matter masses from sub-GeV to a few TeV. To further improve its sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter and…Yuehuan Wei, Jianyu Long, Francesco Lombardi et al.·Jul 31, 2020SaveLearn
Muon Flux Measurement at China Jinping Underground LaboratoryChina Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) is ideal for studying solar-, geo-, and supernova neutrinos. A precise measurement of the cosmic-ray background would play an essential role in proceeding…Ziyi Guo, Lars Bathe-Peters, Shaomin Chen et al.·Jul 31, 2020SaveLearn
Design and hardware evaluation of the optical-link system for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-II UpgradeAn optical link system is being developed for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-II upgrade. The optical link system is responsible for transmit the data of over 182 thousand detector channels…B. Deng, C. Liu, D. Gong et al.·Jul 31, 2020SaveLearn
Electro-optical imaging of electric fields in silicon sensorsA conceptual set-up for measuring the electric field in silicon detectors by electro-optical imaging is proposed. It is based on the Franz-Keldysh effect which describes the electric field dependence…Robert Klanner, Annika Vauth·Jul 30, 2020SaveLearn