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Visual investigation of a Single Mask (SM) Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) foil, showing small resistance~($\sim$ 40 k$\Omega$), is performed manually using an optical microscope. The GEM foil is scanned and the different imperfections in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-25 S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , S. Das , S. Biswas

A GEM tracking detector with an extended drift region has been studied as part of an effort to develop new tracking detectors for future experiments at RHIC and for the Electron Ion Collider that is being planned for BNL or JLAB. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-24 B. Azmoun , B. DiRuzza , A. Franz , A. Kiselev , R. Pak , M. Phipps , M. L. Purschke , C. Woody

In this paper, limitations of the common method measuring intrinsic spatial resolution of the GEM imaging detector are presented. Through theoretical analysis and experimental verification, we have improved the common method to avoid these…

Determining atomistic structures from characterization data is one of the most common yet intricate problems in materials science. Particularly in amorphous materials, proposing structures that balance realism and agreement with experiments…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiawei Guo , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

Cylindrical vector (CV) gamma rays can introduce spatially structured polarization as a new degree of freedom for fundamental research and practical applications. However, their generation and control remain largely unexplored. Here, we put…

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors, typically featuring a standard pitch size of 140 $\mu$m and an inner hole diameter of 50 $\mu$m, are extensively utilized in high-energy physics experiments for tracking, triggering, and timing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-07 Rajiv Gupta , Gauri Devi , Sunidhi Saxena , Arpit Singh , Ajay Kumar

We theoretically demonstrate that ponderomotive interactions near the electron cross-over can be used for aberration correction in ultrafast electron microscopes. Highly magnified electron shadow images from Si$_3$N$_4$ thin films are…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-10 Marius Constantin Chirita Mihaila , Martin Kozák

The Ericksen model for nematic liquid crystals couples a director field with a scalar degree of orientation variable, and allows the formation of various defects with finite energy. We propose a simple but novel finite element approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Michele Ruggeri , Shuo Yang

We have simulated the performances of a GEM with a large density of multiplication holes. In particular in this note we fully simulate the GEM detector used in the PixiE experiment. The detector will be employed in the measurement of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Marina Del Prete

Triple-GEM detectors for the GE2/1 and ME0 stations of the endcap muon system for the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS Experiment have been operated in a test beam to measure their efficiency and spatial resolution, together with a high spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-23 Antonello Pellecchia , Piet Verwilligen , Anna Stamerra

Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) can be produced in large foils and molded in different shapes. The possibility to create cylindrical layers has opened the opportunity to use such detector as internal tracker at collider experiments. One…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Ilaria Balossino

Removing ambiguities within a single stage becomes crucial when one can not use multiple detectors behind each other to resolve them which naturally is the case for neutral radiation. An example would be RICH detectors. Commonly pixilated…

Triple-GEM detector technology was recently selected by CMS for a part of the upgrade of its forward muon detector system as GEM detectors provide a stable operation in the high radiation environment expected during the future…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-12 Aashaq Shah , CMS-Muon Collaboration

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is indispensable in modern materials science, enabling high-resolution imaging across a wide range of structural, chemical, and functional investigations. However, SEM imaging remains constrained by…

Earlier we have developed and successfully tested a RICH detector prototype consisting in a CsI coated triple GEM operated in gas flushed mode In the given work, a modified version of this detector for a completely different application -…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-14 G. Volpe , V. Peskov

We recently found that the electromagnetic scattering problem can be very fast in an approach expressing the fields in terms of orthonormal basis functions. In this paper we apply computational conformal geometry with the conformal energy…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-19 Pengcheng Wan , Zhong-Heng Tan , S. T. Chui , Tiexiang Li , S. T. Yau

This paper investigates beamforming schemes designed to minimize the symbol error probability (SEP) for an authorized user while guaranteeing that the likelihood of an eavesdropper correctly recovering symbols remains below a predefined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Nam Nguyen , An Vuong , Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen

Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) are extensively employed in modern high-energy and nuclear Physics experiments because of their excellent spatial resolution, high rate capability, and operational stability. Among these, the Gas Electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-29 Sachin Rana , Md. Kaosor Ali Mondal , Poojan Angiras , Amal Sarkar

The discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG-FEM) is successfully applied to treat a broad variety of transport problems numerically. In this work, we use the full capacity of the DG-FEM to solve the radiative transfer equation in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 D. Kitzmann , J. Bolte , A. B. C. Patzer

Knowledge gained through X-ray crystallography fostered structural determination of materials and greatly facilitated the development of modern science and technology in the past century. Atomic details of sample structures is achievable by…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-14 Hong Yu , Ronghua Lu , Shensheng Han , Honglan Xie , Guohao Du , Tiqiao Xiao , Daming Zhu