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This paper presents a low complexity detector for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems based on the recently proposed orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation. In the proposed detector, the copies of the transmitted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Tharaj Thaj , Emanuele Viterbo

We describe an automated method for detecting clusters of galaxies in imaging and redshift galaxy surveys. The Adaptive Matched Filter (AMF) method utilizes galaxy positions, magnitudes, and---when available---photometric or spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 Jeremy Kepner , Xiaohui Fan , Neta Bahcall , James Gunn , Robert Lupton , Guohong Xu

Arc-fault circuit interrupters (AFCIs) are essential for mitigating fire hazards in residential photovoltaic (PV) systems, yet achieving reliable DC arc-fault detection under real-world conditions remains challenging. Spectral interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Xiaoke Yang , Long Gao , Haoyu He , Hanyuan Hang , Qi Liu , Shuai Zhao , Qiantu Tuo , Rui Li

Scale variation is one of the most challenging problems in face detection. Modern face detectors employ feature pyramids to deal with scale variation. However, it might break the feature consistency across different scales of faces. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Leilei Cao , Yao Xiao , Lin Xu

The ALICE Collaboration is proposing a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Run 5 and beyond. A key subsystem for charged particle identification will be a Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector consisting of an aerogel radiator…

This paper presents the first public data release (DR1) of the FRB Line-of-sight Ionization Measurement From Lightcone AAOmega Mapping (FLIMFLAM) Survey, a wide field spectroscopic survey targeted on the fields of 10 precisely localized…

During 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 sensors, which are bent into truly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-13 Jory Sonneveld

We present the first single-input multiple-output (SIMO) receiver ASIC that jointly performs jammer mitigation, channel estimation, and data detection. The ASIC implements a recent algorithm called siMultaneous mitigAtion, Estimation, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jonas Elmiger , Fabian Stuber , Oscar Castañeda , Gian Marti , Christoph Studer

We are developing lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) designed to achieve background-limited sensitivity for far-infrared (FIR) spectroscopy on a stratospheric balloon. The Spectroscopic Terahertz Airborne Receiver for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 S. Hailey-Dunsheath , A. C. M. Barlis , J. E. Aguirre , C. M. Bradford , J. G. Redford , T. S. Billings , H. G. LeDuc , C. M. McKenney , M. I. Hollister

A beam imaging detector was developed by coupling a multi-strip anode with delay line readout to an E$\times$B microchannel plate (MCP) detector. This detector is capable of measuring the incident position of the beam particles in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-20 B. B. Wiggins , Varinderjit Singh , J. Vadas , J. Huston , T. K. Steinbach , S. Hudan , R. T. deSouza

A Semiconductor Multiple-Compton Telescope (SMCT) is being developed to explore the gamma-ray universe in an energy band 0.1--20 MeV, which is not well covered by the present or near-future gamma-ray telescopes. The key feature of the SMCT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Tajima , T. Kamae , S. Uno , T. Nakamoto , Y. Fukazawa , T. Mitani , T. Takahashi , K. Nakazawa , Y. Oakada , M. Nomachi

We present characterization results and performance of a prototype Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor with 16 channels potentially suitable for faint object astronomical spectroscopy and low-signal,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Kenneth W. Lin , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Ana M. Botti , Javier Tiffenberg

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) is the key ALICE detector for the study of heavy flavour production at LHC. Heavy flavor can be studied via the identification of short-lived hadrons containing heavy quarks which have a mean proper decay…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefan Rossegger

Particle identification (PID) is a fundamental aspect of the ALICE detector system, central to its heavy-ion and proton-proton physics programs. Among the different PID strategies, ALICE uses the Time-Of-Flight (TOF) detector to identify…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-14 ALICE Collaboration

The detector of TRopIcal DEep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) will use large-area silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays combined with photomultiplier tubes to boost photon detection efficiency and pointing capability. An…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-06 M. X. Wang , Y. Liu , Y. Q. Tan , J. N. Tang , W. H. Wu , D. L. Xu , W. Zhi , Z. Z. Zhou

This paper proposes an iterative detection and decoding (IDD) scheme for a cell free massive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) system. Users send coded data to the access points (APs), which is jointly detected at central processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-25 T. Ssettumba , R. Di Renna , L. Landau , R. C. de Lamare

In this paper, we propose a novel low complexity time domain (TD) oversampling receiver framework under affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) waveforms for joint channel estimation and data detection (JCEDD). Leveraging a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Yao Ge , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Yong Liang Guan

Thermal neutron detector based on films of $^{10}$B$_4$C have been developed as an alternative to $^3$He detectors. In particular, The Multi-Grid detector concept is considered for future large area detectors for ESS and ILL instruments. An…

Multiplexers based on the modulation of superconducting quantum interference devices are now regularly used in multi-kilopixel arrays of superconducting detectors for astrophysics, cosmology, and materials analysis. Over the next decade,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-02 K. D. Irwin , H. M. Cho , W. B. Doriese , J. W. Fowler , G. C. Hilton , M. D. Niemack , C. D. Reintsema , D. R. Schmidt , J. N. Ullom , L. R. Vale

The present generation of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) are radiation hard detectors, capable of detecting efficiently particle rates of several MHz/cm$^2$ , while exhibiting good spatial resolution ($\leq$ 50 $\mu$m) and modest…