Instrumentation and Detectors
The ALICE collaboration plans a completely new tracking detector based on silicon MAPS technology manufactured in the 65 nm production node as part of the ALICE~3 upgrade during Long Shutdown 4 of the LHC. The size of the whole active area…
As wireless technologies continue to develop and reshape our world, teaching students the fundamental building blocks of RF engineering is paramount. Relatively inexpensive lab equipment now makes teaching concepts such as the…
Radon emanation from detector materials is a critical background for next-generation rare event searches, in particular those using noble liquid targets. While highly sensitive screening facilities mitigate this risk prior to detector…
The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Experiment was approved by CERN in 2024. Feebly-interacting particles that are produced in a proton Beam Dump Facility (BDF) will decay in the 50m-long Decay Volume of the experiment, which needs to be…
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been demonstrated to enable highly sensitive temperature measurements using multiple modalities. Standalone optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) provides robust temperature estimates,…
OASIS-ERIS, the Open Acquisition System for IEPE Sensors - Electrically Refined and Inter-device Synchronization, is the successor to the previously released OASIS-UROS. It is based on the Analog Devices AD7606C-18 analog-to-digital…
This study investigated using of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) for scintillation {\gamma}-spectrometry with CdWO4, CsI(Tl), and NaI(Tl) crystal scintillators. At room temperature, CsI(Tl) crystal scintillator provides the best performance,…
The Jinping Neutrino Experiment (JNE), a next-generation neutrino observatory under construction at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory II (CJPL-II), requires high-precision waveform-based event reconstruction, imposing stringent…
Small neutrino detectors are a ton level detectors which can be placed very close to the core of Nuclear Power Plant. In some detectors liquid scintilling (LS) material is used as the detecting material. The antineutrinos from the reactor…
The former CERN RD50 collaboration develops monolithic active pixel high voltage (HV) CMOS sensors for future colliders with the aim of high radiation tolerance, good time resolution, and high granularity pixel detectors. The most recent…
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) collaboration has completed the construction of the 20,000-ton liquid scintillator detector and the associated muon veto detector system. To meet the physics objectives, the materials…
We report the progress achieved on the development of a two-dimensional Optical Parallel-Plate Avalanche Counter (OPPAC) prototype for heavy-ion tracking. The device consists of two uniform thin parallel plates of 10 x 10 cm2 effective…
Motivated by the interactions of the GCR protons with the Martian atmosphere and regolith in the absence and presence of hydrogen, a series of GEANT4 simulations are employed in this study to reveal the influence of hydrogen on the energy…
Interactions of cosmic rays and other forms of ionizing radiation pose a significant challenge to the reliable operation of state-of-the-art quantum devices and error correction in quantum computing based on superconducting circuits which…
The objective of the Photo-HASPIDE experiment is the construction and test of an indirect a-Si:H (Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon) photo-detector plus scintillator device on a flexible substrate for the detection and measurement of particles…
ProtoDUNE-DP was the largest ever built Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) operating in Dual-Phase (DP) mode, with a liquid target and charge read-out placed in the gas. It had an active volume of $6\times6\times6$\,m$^3$…
Accurate positioning of optical components is essential for maintaining beam alignment in free-space optical (FSO) communication systems. This work investigates reinforcement-learning-assisted tuning of cascaded position and velocity PID…
Studies of spin-dependent effects at the Nuclotron/NICA accelerator complex at JINR require precise measurements of the deuteron and proton beam polarization. The vector polarization of the deuteron beam was measured at the energies of 200,…
We present a detailed study of hadronic shower energy reconstruction methods for the Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (SDHCAL) within the ILD detector concept, using the Particle Flow Algorithm (PFA) APRIL. Using samples of single $K^0_L$…
The p-type point-contact germanium detectors have emerged as the ideal detection technology for rare-event experiments such as direct dark matter searches and neutrinoless double beta decay, and have been verified to be capable of…