Investigating the impact of the diode edge geometry on the effective active area of silicon sensors using AREA-XSensors for particle tracking detectors are required to provide a maximum active area in addition to fulfilling performance criteria concerning radiation hardness, charge collection and operating…Luise Poley, Ian Dyckes, Javier Fernandez-Tejero et al.·May 15, 2025SaveLearn
Test of LGAD as Potential Next-Generation μSR Spectrometer DetectorsMuon Spin Rotation/Relaxation/Resonance (μSR) is a versatile and powerful non-destructive technology for investigating the magnetic properties of materials at the microscopic level. The μSR…Yuhang Guo, Qiang Li, Yu Bao et al.·May 15, 2025SaveLearn
Probing arbitrary polarized photon pairs undergoing double Compton scatterings by a dedicated MC simulator validated with experimental dataQuantum correlations in the polarization degrees of freedom of the two-photon system have been extensively studied and form our current understanding of the quantum nature of our world. Most of the…M. Bala, W. Krzemien, B. C. Hiesmayr et al.·May 13, 2025SaveLearn
The detection of marine microseismic activity with the CUORE tonne-scale cryogenic experimentVibrations from experimental setups and the environment are a persistent source of noise for low-temperature calorimeters searching for rare events, including neutrinoless double beta…D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso et al.·May 13, 2025SaveLearn
Evidence of localized groundwater flow during thermal response test using distributed thermal sensingFour Borehole Heat Exchangers (BHE) were installed at the BRGM Shallow Geothermal Research Facility (BRGM-SGRF) in Orl\'eans, France. They are sixty meters deep and eight meters apart on a line.…Antoine Voirand, Charles Maragna·May 13, 2025SaveLearn
Influence of Self-Absorption on Pulse Shape Discrimination in Organic Glass ScintillatorsOrganic glass scintillators are an interesting alternative to liquid scintillators, offering many advantageous characteristics with few drawbacks. In this paper we investigate the influence of light…Lukasz Adamowski, Martyna Grodzicka-Kobylka, Tomasz Szczesniak et al.·May 13, 2025SaveLearn
A Non-planar ReBCO Test Coil with 3D-printed Aluminum Support Structure for the EPOS StellaratorWe report on the test of a small scale, non-planar coil using non-insulated ReBCO tape wound on a 3D-printed aluminum support structure. A 3D-scan of the winding frame which was printed out of…Paul Huslage, Tristan Schuler, Pedro F. Gil et al.·May 13, 2025SaveLearn
τHK: a modular housekeeping system for cryostats and balloon payloadsτHK is a versatile experiment housekeeping (HK) system designed to perform cryogenic temperature readout and heater control on the upcoming Taurus balloon experiment. τHK, more broadly, is…Simon Tartakovsky, Steven J. Benton, Aurelien A. Fraisse et al.·May 12, 2025SaveLearn
Performance and Design Validation of CMS Phase-2 Pixel ModulesIn view of the High Luminosity LHC, the current CMS tracking detector will have to be replaced during Long Shutdown 3 to cope with the higher radiation environment and to withstand an increased data…Giorgia Bonomelli·May 12, 2025SaveLearn
A two-stage time-stretching TDC with discrete componentsThis paper presents the design and testing of a time-stretching-based time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented with discrete components. The TDC utilizes capacitor charging and discharging to…Yanbo Chu, Zhicai Zhang·May 12, 2025SaveLearn
Development of the Range Counter for the COMET Phase-α ExperimentThe COMET Phase-α experiment aims to evaluate the novel muon transport beamline for the muon-to-electron conversion search at J-PARC, Japan. A dedicated Range Counter (RC) was developed to…Kou Oishi, Masaharu Aoki, Shion Kuribayashi et al.·May 12, 2025SaveLearn
Results from a 2nd production run of low temperature wafer-wafer bonded pad-diodes for particle detectionWe are investigating the use of low temperature wafer-wafer bonding in the fabrication of next-generation particle pixel detectors. This bonding technique could enable the integration of fully…J. Wüthrich, K. Deplazes, A. Rubbia·May 11, 2025SaveLearn
Gamma-ray and high-energy X-ray detection with large area scintillating crystals: a hands-on reviewDetection of photons with scintillating inorganic crystals in the high-energy range (> 0.1 MeV) will be discussed, making a comparison with other available methods. Energy resolutions up to 2 % at…M. Bonesini·May 11, 2025SaveLearn
Qualification of Bump Bonding in CMS Inner Tracker Pixel Modules for the Phase-2 UpgradeTo fully exploit the increased luminosity of the HL-LHC, the CMS Inner Tracker is undergoing a major upgrade to withstand extreme radiation levels and data rates, while improving granularity and…Panagiotis Assiouras·May 10, 2025SaveLearn
Removing constraints of 4D-STEM with a framework for event-driven acquisition and processingPixelated detectors in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) generate large volumes of data, often tens to hundreds of GB per scan. However, to make current advancements scalable and…Arno Annys, Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert, Saleh Gholam et al.·May 10, 2025SaveLearn
Modeling the light response of an optically readout GEM based TPC for the CYGNO experimentThe use of gaseous Time Projection Chambers enables the detection and the detailed study of rare events due to particles interactions with the atoms of the gas with energy releases as low as a few…Fernando Dominques Amaro, Rita Antonietti, Elisabetta Baracchini et al.·May 9, 2025SaveLearn
Performance of a SiPM-based, plastic scintillator muon veto prototype for CUPIDCUPID will be a next-generation experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in the inverted mass ordering regime. The reduction of backgrounds in the region of interest is critical to the…Maya Moore, Samantha Pagan, Emily G. Pottebaum et al.·May 9, 2025SaveLearn
Realistic Monte Carlo simulations of silicon 4D-trackersSimulation-guided design represents a fundamental contribution towards the development of modern semiconductor devices aiming to reach high-performance particle detection, identification and…Marco Mandurrino·May 9, 2025SaveLearn
Further Characterisation of Digital Pixel Test Structures Implemented in a 65 nm CMOS ProcessThe next generation of MAPS for future tracking detectors will have to meet stringent requirements placed on them. One such detector is the ALICE ITS3 that aims to be very light at 0.07% X/X0…Gianluca Aglieri Rinella, Nicole Apadula, Anton Andronic et al.·May 9, 2025SaveLearn
A prototype reactor-antineutrino detector based on 6Li-doped pulse-shaping-discriminating plastic scintillatorAn aboveground 60-kg reactor-antineutrino detector prototype, comprised of a 2-dimensional array of 36 6Li-doped pulse shape sensitive plastic scintillator bars, is described. Each bar is 50~cm…O. Benevides Rodrigues, E. P. Bernard, N. S. Bowden et al.·May 9, 2025SaveLearn
Design and optimisation of radiation resistant AC- and DC-coupled resistive LGADsFuture high-energy physics experiments require a paradigm shift in radiation detector design. In response to this challenge, resistive LGADs that combine Low Gain Avalanche Diode technology with…Alessandro Fondacci, Tommaso Croci, Daniele Passeri et al.·May 8, 2025SaveLearn
Compensated LGAD optimisation through van der Pauw test structuresA new gain implant design has recently been introduced to enhance the radiation resistance of low-gain avalanche diodes (LGADs) to the extreme fluences anticipated in future hadron colliders like…Alessandro Fondacci, Tommaso Croci, Daniele Passeri et al.·May 8, 2025SaveLearn
The High Voltage Splitter board for the JUNO SPMT systemThe Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in southern China is designed to study neutrinos from nuclear reactors and natural sources to address fundamental questions in neutrino physics.…Pablo Walker, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, Angel Abusleme et al.·May 8, 2025SaveLearn
STORI2024: Tests of Amorphous Carbon-coated Storage Cells for a Polarized Gas Target at LHCb and Further ResultsAs the LHC beams cannot be polarized, introducing a dense polarized gas target at the LHCb experiment at CERN, to be operated concurrently with beam-beam collisions, will facilitate fixed-target…Tarek El-Kordy, Ralf Engels, Nicolas Faatz et al.·May 8, 2025SaveLearn
Design and FPGA Implementation of WOMBAT: A Deep Neural Network Level-1 Trigger System for Jet Substructure Identification and Boosted H→ bb Tagging at the CMS ExperimentThis thesis investigates the physics performance, trigger efficiency, and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation of machine learning (ML)-based algorithms for Lorentz-boosted…Mila Bileska·May 8, 2025SaveLearn