Effect of hole pitch reduction on electron transport and diffusion: A comparative simulation study of Triple GEM detectorsAdvances in fabrication techniques and high-performance electronics have facilitated the development of fine-pitch Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs). Earlier experimental and simulation findings…Rajiv Gupta, Sunidhi Saxena, Ajay Kumar·Jan 15, 2026SaveLearn
Characterization of Silicon-Membrane TES Microcalorimeters for Large-Format X-ray Spectrometers with Integrated Microwave SQUID ReadoutWe present the electro-thermal characterization of transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors suspended on Si membranes fabricated using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. The use of an all-silicon…Avirup Roy, Robinjeet Singh, Joel C. Weber et al.·Jan 14, 2026SaveLearn
The ePIC Silicon Vertex Tracker: Design and StatusThe ePIC collaboration is developing a multidetector system to explore the fundamental properties of the strong interaction at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), to be built at Brookhaven…R. Turrisi·Jan 14, 2026SaveLearn
Hybrid-Contact Planar HPGe Process Vehicle Toward Ring-Contact DesignsRare-event searches including dark matter, coherent elastic neutrino--nucleus scattering (CE), and neutrinoless double-beta decay (0ββ) require high-purity germanium (HPGe)…Kunming Dong, Dongming Mei, Shasika Panamaldeniya et al.·Jan 13, 2026SaveLearn
Towards a Self-Driving Trigger at the LHC: Adaptive Response in Real TimeReal-time data filtering and selection -- or trigger -- systems at high-throughput scientific facilities such as the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must process extremely high-rate…Shaghayegh Emami, Cecilia Tosciri, Giovanna Salvi et al.·Jan 13, 2026SaveLearn
Enhanced Athermal Phonon Responsivity in a Kinetic Inductance Detector with Integrated Phonon CollectorsCryogenic phonon detectors are adopted in light dark matter searches and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments as they can achieve low energy thresholds. The phonon mediated…Leonardo Pesce, Alessio Ludovico De Santis, Martino Calvo et al.·Jan 13, 2026SaveLearn
Design and construction of a cryogenic subcooler-box for supplying single phase supercritical helium to dark matter and gravitational wave experimentsWe report on the design, development, and installation of the ALPS Cryo-Platform Subcooler Box (ACPS), which is part of the cryogenic platform being established in the HERA North Hall at DESY to…Udai Raj Singh, Rajinikumar Ramalingam, Christoph Reinhardt et al.·Jan 13, 2026SaveLearn
Sub-Pixel Electron Beam Alignment for Machine Learning Characterization of Hybrid Pixel DetectorsDue to their radiation hardness, kilohertz frame rates, and high dynamic range, hybrid pixel detectors have recently expanded their application range to electron diffraction and recently also…Emiliya Poghosyan, Xiangyu Xie, Joakim Reuteler et al.·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
Performance Benchmarks for 2-View and 3-View Fiber-Projection Fine-Grained Particle DetectorsFine-grained scintillator detectors are critical for precision measurements in nuclear and particle physics, where accurate reconstruction of interaction vertices and secondary particle directions…Haohui Che, Guang Yang·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
Performance of the Pair Spectrometer in Hall D at Jefferson LabThis article describes the performance of the pair spectrometer installed in experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab and its operation in multiple experiments with the GlueX detector. The primary…Alexander Somov, Sergey Somov, Vladimir V. Berdnikov·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
Large Language Models for Physics Instrument DesignWe study the use of large language models (LLMs) for physics instrument design and compare their performance to reinforcement learning (RL). Using only prompting, LLMs are given task constraints and…Sara Zoccheddu, Shah Rukh Qasim, Patrick Owen et al.·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
A New Beam Monitor at NFS/SPIRAL2 Based on Position-Sensitive PPACs Detecting Fission Fragments from 238U(n,f)A new experimental setup has been installed at the Time-Of-Flight area of the Neutrons For Science facility (NFS) at GANIL/SPIRAL2 for neutron beam monitoring. This setup consists of an array of…D. Ramos, X. Ledoux, L. Audouin et al.·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
The design and expected performance of the ALICE ITS3 upgradeDuring the LHC Long Shutdown 3 (2026-29) ALICE will replace its three innermost tracking layers by a new detector, the "ITS3". It will be based on newly developed, wafer-scale monolithic active pixel…Jory Sonneveld·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
Monitoring of structural changes in materials under the exposure of ionization radiation using a vibrating wireIonizing radiation (X-rays, proton beams) causes structural changes in materials. If a vibrating metallic wire is subjected to such radiation, the natural frequency of the wire is affected as a…S. G. Arutunian, N. M. Manukyan, S. A. Hunanyan et al.·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
Achieving Ultrahigh Resolution with High Efficiency: Optical Design of the 2D-RIXS Spectrometer at NanoTerasu BL02UA state-of-the-art Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) facility, composed of a dedicated beamline and a 2D-RIXS spectrometer, has been constructed and commissioned at BL02U in NanoTerasu,…Jun Miyawaki·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
PANDA-film: an automated system for electrodeposition of polymer thin films and their wetting analysisThin polymer films are widely used as functional and protective coatings. However, determining the composition and processing conditions that produce a desired function is a tedious process due to…Harley Quinn, Gregory A. Robben, Zhaoyi Zheng et al.·Jan 11, 2026SaveLearn
Benchmarking Autonomy in Scientific Experiments: A Hierarchical Taxonomy for Autonomous Large-Scale FacilitiesThe transition from automated data collection to fully autonomous discovery requires a shared vocabulary to benchmark progress. While the automotive industry relies on the SAE J3016 standard, current…James Le Houx·Jan 11, 2026SaveLearn
Performance evaluation of Luxium Solutions BCF-XL wavelength-shifting fibersWe evaluate the performance of single-clad wavelength-shifting fibers newly developed by Luxium Solutions, BCF-92XL, BCF-9929AXL, and BCF-9995XL and compare them with the multi-clad Kuraray Y-11…Tatsuki Yamazumi, Yota Endo, Shoma Kodama et al.·Jan 11, 2026SaveLearn
Constellation: The Autonomous Control and Data Acquisition System for Dynamic Experimental SetupsThe operation of instruments and detectors in laboratory or beamline environments presents a complex challenge, requiring stable operation of multiple concurrent devices, often controlled by separate…Simon Spannagel, Stephan Lachnit, Hanno Perrey et al.·Jan 10, 2026SaveLearn
Optimized Broadband Cryogenic Ferromagnetic Resonance Spectrometer using a Closed Cycle RefrigeratorWe present a vector network analyzer (VNA) based broadband cryogenic ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectrometer, operating up to 20 GHz over a temperature range of 11 to 350 K. A cost effective…Anna Merin Francis, Sunil Nair·Jan 10, 2026SaveLearn
Novel High-Radiopurity Doped Amorphous Silicon Resistors for Low-Background DetectorsWe present the results of a study of lightly doped amorphous silicon used as a resistive medium for high-radiopurity resistors in nuclear and particle physics research instrumentation. Prototypes are…A. Anker, P. C. Rowson, K. Skarpaas et al.·Jan 9, 2026SaveLearn
Differentiable Surrogate for Detector Simulation and Design with Diffusion ModelsIn this work, we present a conditional denoising-diffusion surrogate for electromagnetic calorimeter showers that is trained to generate high-fidelity energy-deposition maps conditioned on key…Xuan Tung Nguyen, Long Chen, Tommaso Dorigo et al.·Jan 9, 2026SaveLearn
Data acquisition from high-rate detectors at MAX IVAt MAX IV pixelated area detectors are operated at high frame rates to take advantage of the X-ray beam properties available from the fourth generation synchrotron in scattering, diffraction and…Paul Bell, Michele Cascella, Felix Engelmann et al.·Jan 9, 2026SaveLearn
Robust Bilinear-Noise-Optimal Control for Gravitational-Wave Detectors: A Mixed LQG/H∞ ApproachAt its lowest frequencies, LIGO is limited by noise in its many degrees of freedom of suspended optics, which, in turn, introduce noise in the interferometer through their feedback control systems.…Ian A. O. MacMillan, Lee P. McCuller·Jan 9, 2026SaveLearn
Enhanced Dark Matter Sensitivity using a Hybrid SiPM-SNSPD-Qubit Detector in Liquid ArgonWe investigate novel strategies to extend the sensitivity of dark matter direct detection experiments to energy deposits well below the thresholds of conventional detectors. In liquid-argon…Faeq Abed, Asmaa AlMellah, Kareem Al-Jubouri et al.·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn