Temperature Dependence of the Time Resolution in a SiPM-Readout Plastic Scintillator for Cosmic-Ray ApplicationsBalloon- and space-borne cosmic-ray experiments employ plastic scintillators read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) to achieve picosecond-level time resolutions for triggering and particle…José Reyes Castillo, Saúl Aguilar Salazar, Diego Mauricio Gomez Coral·Nov 13, 2025SaveLearn
Autonomous X-ray Fluorescence Mapping of Chemically Heterogeneous Systems via a Correlative Feature Detection FrameworkWe present X-AutoMap, a modular framework for autonomous X-ray fluorescence (XRF) mapping that enables chemically informed targeting of regions of interest through a correlative feature detection…Carlos Deleon, Dmitri Gavrilov, Peggy ODay et al.·Nov 13, 2025SaveLearn
High-throughput Parasitic-independent Probe Thermal Resistance Calibration for Robust Thermal Mapping with Scanning Thermal MicroscopyNanostructured materials, critical for thermal management in semiconductor devices, exhibit a strong size dependence in thermal transport. Studying thermal resistance variation across grain…Ram Munde, Heng-Ray Chuang, Raisul Islam·Nov 13, 2025SaveLearn
An ASME-Compliant Helium-4 Evaporation Refrigerator for the SpinQuest ExperimentThis paper presents the design, safety basis, and commissioning results of a 1 K liquid helium-4 (4He) evaporation refrigerator developed for the Fermilab SpinQuest Experiment (E1039). The system…Jordan D. Roberts, Vibodha Bandara, Kenichi Nakano et al.·Nov 12, 2025SaveLearn
Photothermal resistivity alignment of optical fibers to SNSPDWe demonstrate a straightforward optoelectronic fiber alignment technique for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) that exploits the temperature-dependent resistance of the…Martin Baránek, Dušan Lorenc, Tomáš Ščepka et al.·Nov 12, 2025SaveLearn
An ultrafast plenoptic-camera system for high-resolution 3D particle tracking in unsegmented scintillatorsNeutrino detectors, particle calorimeters and some dark matter detectors require dense and massive active materials. An extremely fine segmentation is desirable to achieve precise three-dimensional…Till Dieminger, Saúl Alonso-Monsalve, Christoph Alt et al.·Nov 12, 2025SaveLearn
Progress on the ALETHEIA project and a new approach to mitigate events overlapThe ALETHEIA project aims to search for low-mass dark matter using liquid helium (LHe)-filled time projection chambers (TPCs). While liquid argon and liquid xenon TPCs have been extensively employed…Junhui Liao·Nov 12, 2025SaveLearn
Commissioning the Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy Experiment at FRIBThis manuscript reports on the commissioning of the Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy Experiment (RISE) at the BECOLA facility at FRIB. The new instrument implements the collinear resonance…A. J. Brinson, B. J. Rickey, J. M. Allmond et al.·Nov 12, 2025SaveLearn
Towards low-cost lead screening with transmission XRFHuman exposure to lead (Pb) is a global health concern, yet existing technologies for detecting lead in our environment remain prohibitively expensive for widespread deployment. Here we present a new…Christoph Gaßner, Juliane Reisewitz, Jenna E. Forsyth et al.·Nov 12, 2025SaveLearn
On the Measurability of True Coincidence Summing in the GRIFFIN SpectrometerThe measurement of gamma-rays from decaying nuclei allow for the investigation into nuclear structure. True coincidence summing occurs when two gamma-rays from a single decay get detected in a single…Liam Schmidt·Nov 10, 2025SaveLearn
From Commissioning to Precision Data-Taking: Resolving Operational Challenges in the Nab Detector SystemsOur understanding of the weak mixing of quarks, described by the Cabibbo Kobayashi Maskawa (CKM) matrix, currently presents an anomaly. Thanks to major strides in both theory and experiment, improved…L. J. Broussard, H. Acharya, R. Alarcon et al.·Nov 10, 2025SaveLearn
MPGD with a 3D-printed Thick-GEM as sole gain elementWe present the first micropattern gaseous detector that employs a small 3D-printed Thick-GEM as its sole gain element. The detector can achieve sufficient gas gain for regular operation without the…J. Collins, M. Hohlmann·Nov 10, 2025SaveLearn
The Use of O2 in Gas Mixtures for Drift ChambersThe use of Oxygen in gas mixtures for drift chambers is highly discouraged because Oxygen, being strongly electronegative, is generally believed to lead, even in very small quantities, to extremely…A. M. Baldini, L. Bianco, H. Benmansour et al.·Nov 10, 2025SaveLearn
Electromagnetic transients and failed upward leaders observed during lightning activity in an onshore wind farmAt a wind farm in Croatia, lightning activity is monitored across the entire site using a lightning location system, and on a single wind turbine equipped with a Rogowski-coil-based current…Franjo Vukovic, Bozidar Filipovic-Grcic, Nina Stipetic et al.·Nov 9, 2025SaveLearn
Compressive multi-beam scanning transmission electron microscopyWe demonstrate a multi-beam scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) imaging that integrates down-sampling with super-resolution image reconstruction via a compressive sensing framework. A…Akira Yasuhara, Takumi Sannomiya, Ryoichi Horisaki·Nov 8, 2025SaveLearn
Transmission Efficiency of the Recoil Mass Spectrometer EMMA at TRIUMFThe mean transmission efficiency of the EMMA recoil mass spectrometer at TRIUMF has been measured with 6 different angular apertures at 17 kinetic energy/charge deviations with respect to the…B. Davids, N. E. Esker, J. Jaeyoung et al.·Nov 7, 2025SaveLearn
Development and characterization of MPGD-based transition radiation detectorsTransition Radiation Detectors (TRDs) are useful for electron identification and hadron suppression in high energy nuclear and particle physics experiments. Conventional wire-chamber TRDs face…Lauren Kasper, Alexander Austregesilo, Fernando Barbosa et al.·Nov 7, 2025SaveLearn
Modelling the Performance of Tritium Process Monitors from First PrinciplesIonization chamber-based, in-line tritium process monitors play an important part in determining the behavior of a tritium system. The one-liter detection volume monitor has been characterized well…Nicolas J. Sovare, Walter T. Shmayda·Nov 7, 2025SaveLearn
42Ar Production and Injection to a Liquid Argon Environment for Background Mitigation StudiesAtmosphere-sourced argon contains traces of 42Ar, whose β--decaying progeny 42K represents a significant intrinsic background for rare-event experiments using liquid argon (LAr) as…Mario Schwarz, Christoph Vogl, Niko N. P. N. Lay et al.·Nov 7, 2025SaveLearn
Proof-of-concept of a xenon-based cryogenic heat pump demonstrator for future liquid xenon observatoriesThis manuscript details the proof-of-concept of a small-scale cryogenic heat pump demonstrator, a technology designed to enable high-flow xenon distillation systems for the removal of 222Rn in…P. Schulte, D. Wenz, L. Althueser et al.·Nov 7, 2025SaveLearn
Optical studies of scintillation detectors for precision beta-energy measurementsThis work presents optical calculations and simulations for scintillation detectors used in precision measurements of beta-particle energy spectra. Particular attention is given to Cherenkov photons…S. Vanlangendonck, D. Atanasov, B. Blank et al.·Nov 7, 2025SaveLearn
Nuclear Ptychoscopy: A Ptychographic Framework for Nuclear SpectroscopyAccessing both amplitude and phase of nuclear response functions is central to fully characterizing light-matter interactions in the X-ray-nuclear regime. Recent work has demonstrated phase retrieval…Ziyang Yuan, Yifei Zhang, Yonggong Teng et al.·Nov 7, 2025SaveLearn
Hardware-Accelerated GNN-based Hit Filtering for the Belle II Level-1 TriggerWe present a hardware-accelerated hit filtering system employing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for the Belle II Level-1 Trigger. The GNN exploits spatial and…Greta Heine, Fabio Mayer, Marc Neu et al.·Nov 6, 2025SaveLearn
First order statistic of afterpulsing and crosstalk events in SiPMsThis paper briefly presents an order statistic approach to the time distribution of the first detected event after a primary avalanche breakdown from a mixture of correlated and dark counting…Sergey Vinogradov·Nov 6, 2025SaveLearn
Mitigating effects of nonlinearities in homodyne quadrature interferometersHomodyne Quadrature interferometers (HoQI) are an interferometric displacement sensing scheme proven to have excellent noise performance, making them a strong candidate for sensing and control…Johannes Lehmann, Artem Basalaev, Jonathan J. Carter et al.·Nov 6, 2025SaveLearn