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The calibration process for the hybrid array pixel detector designed for High Energy Photon Source in China, we called HEPS-BPIX, is presented in this paper. Based on the threshold scanning, the relationship between energy and threshold is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-01 Ye Ding , Zhenjie Li , Wei Wei , Jie Zhang , Hangxu Li , Yan Zhang , Xiaolu Ji , Peng Liu , Yuanbai Chen , Kejun Zhu

Multi-pixel photodiodes operating in a limited Geiger mode will be used for photoreadout of scintillator counters in underground cosmic ray experiment EMMA. Main parameters of photodiodes and the performance of EMMA scintillator counters…

In the context of developing a hadron calorimeter with extremely fine granularity for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms to the measurement of jet energies at a future lepton collider, we report on extensive tests of a small scale…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-12 B. Bilki , John Butler , Ed May , Georgios Mavromanolakis , Edwin Norbeck , Jose Repond , David Underwood , Lei Xia , Qingmin Zhang

We constructed a gamma-ray detector by combining two types of scintillator array detectors with an MPPC array and evaluated the spectral performance by reading out the signals from the MPPC with a low-power integrated circuit (ASIC)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-16 Daiki Nobashi , Kazutaka Yamaoka , Hiroyasu Tajima , Kazuya Ito

This report highlights two different types of cross-talk in the photodetectors of the miniTimeCube neutrino experiment. The miniTimeCube detector has 24 $8 \times 8$-anode Photonis MCP-PMTs Planacon XP85012, totalling 1536 individual pixels…

We present the performances and characterization of an array made of S13370-3050CN (VUV4 generation) Multi-Pixel Photon Counters manufactured by Hamamatsu and equipped with a low power consumption preamplifier operating at liquid xenon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-18 F. Arneodo , M. L. Benabderrahmane , G. Bruno , V. Conicella , A. Di Giovanni , O. Fawwaz , M. Messina , A. Candela , G. Franchi

The design and tests of Timing Counter elements for the upgrade of the MEG experiment, MEG II,is presented. The detector is based on several small plates of scintillator with a Silicon PhotoMultipliers dual-side readout. The optimisation of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , W. Ootani , Y. Uchiyama , M. Nishimura , S. Shirabe , P. W. Cattaneo , M. Rossella

The SiPM-on-Tile technology for highly granular calorimeters, where small plastic scintillator tiles are directly read out with SiPMs, has been developed for the CALICE Analog Hadron Calorimeter, and has been adopted for parts of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-04 Fabian Hummer , Lorenz Emberger , Frank Simon

Among the top priorities for high-energy astronomy in the coming decade are sensitive surveys in the hard X-ray/soft \gamma-ray (10-600 keV) and medium-energy \gamma-ray (0.2-80 MeV) bands. Historically, observations in the soft and medium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 Alexei Ulyanov , Lorraine Hanlon , Sheila McBreen , Suzanne Foley , David Byrne

The performance of scintillator counters with embedded wavelength-shifting fibers has been measured in the Fermilab Meson Test Beam Facility using 120 GeV protons. The counters were extruded with a titanium dioxide surface coating and two…

The existing ATLAS Tracker will be at its functional limit for particle fluences of 10^15 neq/cm^2 (LHC). Thus for the upgrades at smaller radii like in the case of the planned Insertable B-Layer (IBL) and for increased LHC luminosities…

This paper describes an experimental setup that has been developed to measure and characterise properties of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM). The measured SiPM properties are of general interest for a multitude of potential applications and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-13 Patrick Eckert , Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon , Wei Shen , Rainer Stamen , Alexander Tadday

This study constructs a hybrid module with a multi-material collaborative detection architecture by integrating silicon pixel layers into the longitudinally segmented scintillating fiber sampling calorimeter module and optimizes the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-30 Jia-Le Fei , Ao Yuan , Chang-Heng Huang , Liu-Pan An , Ji-Ke Wang

We report on the development of a novel pixel charge readout system, Grid Activated Multi-scale pixel readout (GAMPix), which is under development for use in the GammaTPC gamma ray instrument concept. GammaTPC is being developed to optimize…

To meet the need for a high counting rate and high time resolution in future high-energy physics experiments, a prototype of a gas photodetector with an RPC structure was developed. Garfield++ simulated the detector's performance, and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-30 Yiding Zhao , D. Hu , M. Shao , Y. Zhou , S. Lv , Xiangqi Tian , Anqi Wang , Xueshen Lin , Hao Pang , Y. Suna

COMPASS is a fixed target experiment at CERN SPS aimed to study hadron structure and spectroscopy. Hadron identification in the momentum range between $3$ and $55 GeV/c$ is provided by a large gaseous Ring Imaging Cherenkov Counter, RICH-1.…

The present Compact Muon Solenoid silicon pixel tracking system has been designed for a peak luminosity of 1034cm-2s-1 and total dose corresponding to two years of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operation. With the steady increase of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-11 N. Parashar

Pixel detectors are used in the innermost part of multi purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and are therefore exposed to the highest fluences of ionising radiation, which in this part of the detectors consists mainly of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-21 T. Rohe , J. Acosta , A. Bean , S. Dambach , W. Erdmann , U. Langenegger , C. Martin , B. Meier , V. Radicci , J. Sibille , P. Trueb

A new pixel detector for the CMS experiment is being built, owing to the instantaneous luminosities anticipated for the Phase I Upgrade of the LHC. The new CMS pixel detector provides four-hit tracking while featuring a significantly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-23 Simon Spannagel

In this short note we present results of background measurements carried out with a polystyrene based cast plastic 12.0x12.0x3.0 cm^3 size scintillator counter with a wavelength shifting fibre and a multi-pixel Geiger mode avalanche…