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We report the design, construction, and initial commissioning results of a large high pressure gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with Micromegas modules for charge readout. The detector vessel has an inner volume of about 600 L and an…

We study the prospects of measuring the decay of the Higgs boson into a pair of muons at the International Linear Collider (ILC). The study is performed at center-of-mass energies of 250\,GeV and 500\,GeV, with fully-simulated Monte-Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-14 Shin-ichi Kawada , Jenny List , Mikael Berggren

A neutron counter designed for assay of radioactive materials has been adapted for beam experiments at TUNL. The cylindrical geometry and 60% maximum efficiency make it well suited for ($\gamma,n$) cross-section measurements near the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-03-17 C. W. Arnold , T. B. Clegg , H. J Karwowski , G. C. Rich , J. R. Tompkins , C. R. Howell

We propose a novel method using the $ZZ$-fusion channel and forward muon detection at high-energy muon colliders to address the challenge of the Higgs coupling-width degeneracy. Our approach enables inclusive Higgs rate measurement to 0.75%…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-18 Peiran Li , Zhen Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu

Following the Higgs particle discovery, the Large Hadron Collider complex will be upgraded in several phases allowing the luminosity to increase to $7 \times 10^{34}cm^{-2}s^{-1}$. In order to adapt the ATLAS detector to the higher…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-27 Xiao Zhao , Dengfeng Zhang , Wenlong Li , Changyu Li , Chengguang Zhu , Han Li , Shengquan Liu , Peng Miao , Yanyan Du , Yanyun Duan

The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is an ideal candidate to finely study the charged particle ionization in a gaseous medium. Large volumes TPCs can be read out with a suitable number of channels offering a complete 3D reconstruction of an…

ATLAS muon detector upgrades aim for increased acceptance for muon triggering and precision tracking and for improved rate capability of the muon chambers in the high-background regions of the detector with increasing LHC luminosity. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 Hubert Kroha , Oliver Kortner , Korbinian Schmidt-Sommerfeld , Eric Takasugi

The ATLAS muon spectrometer is designed to measure muon momenta with a resolution of 4% @ 100 GeV/c rising to 10% @ 1 TeV/c track momentum. The spectrometer consists of precision tracking and trigger chambers embedded in a 2T magnetic field…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 E. Diehl

The paper is considering an opportunity for the CERN/GranSasso (CNGS) neutrino complex, concurrent time-wise with T2K and NOvA, to search for theta_13 oscillations and CP violation. Compared with large water Cherenkov (T2K) and fine grained…

A new type of cold/ultracold neutron detector that can realize a spatial resolution of less than 100 nm was developed using nuclear emulsion. The detector consists of a fine-grained nuclear emulsion coating and a 50-nm thick $^{10}$B$_4$C…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 N. Naganawa , T. Ariga , S. Awano , M. Hino , K. Hirota , H. Kawahara , M. Kitaguchi , K. Mishima , H. M. Shimizu , S. Tada , S. Tasaki , A. Umemoto

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing an extensive Phase II upgrade program to prepare for the challenging conditions of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). A new timing layer is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-02 Irene Dutta

A new Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is currently under development for the sPHENIX experiment at RHIC. The TPC will be read out using multistage GEM detectors on each end and will be divided into approximately 40 pad layers in radius. Each…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Azmoun , P. Garg , T. K. Hemmick , M. Hohlmann , A. Kiselev , M. L. Purschke , C. Woody , A. Zhang

The Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC (\SND) started taking data at the beginning of Run 3 of the LHC. The experiment is designed to perform measurements with neutrinos produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC in an energy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-17 LHC Collaboration

The alignment system for the muon spectrometer of the CMS detector comprises three independent subsystems of optical and analog position sensors. It aligns muon chambers with respect to each other and to the central silicon tracker. System…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 CMS Collaboration

The goals of the ongoing and planned ATLAS muon detector upgrades are to increase the acceptance for precision muon momentum measurement and triggering and to improve the rate capability of the muon chambers in the high-background regions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 Hubert Kroha , Oliver Kortner , Korbinian Schmidt-Sommerfeld , Eric Takasugi

The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber at Fermilab designed to study short-baseline neutrino oscillations and neutrino-argon interaction cross-section. Due to its location near the surface, a good understanding of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-17 MicroBooNE collaboration , R. Acciarri , C. Adams , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , L. Bagby , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , M. Bass , F. Bay , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , B. Carls , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , H. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. Cohen , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , A. A. Fadeeva , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , G. T. Garvey , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , N. Graf , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , J. Ho , G. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , C. -M. Jen , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , D. Kaleko , L. N. Kalousis , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , G. Lange , A. Laube , Y. Li , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , V. Meddage , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , R. Murrells , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , Z. Pavlovic , R. Pelkey , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , A. Rafique , L. Rochester , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , K. Terao , M. Thomson , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , D. A. Wickremasinghe , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , T. Yang , L. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

The contribution of Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) to muon reconstruction in CMS has been studied on a sample of muons collected in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC in 2011. Muon reconstruction is performed using the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Min Suk Kim

A novel gaseous two-dimensional imaging detector "Micro Pixel Chamber (micro-PIC)" has been developed. This detector is based on double sided printed circuit board (PCB). We have developed large area (10cm x 10cm) micro-PICs with 65536…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Nagayoshi , H. Kubo , K. Miuchi , A. Ochi , R. Orito , A. Takada , T. Tanimori , M. Ueno

Muon Tomography based on the measurement of multiple scattering of atmospheric cosmic ray muons in matter is a promising technique for detecting heavily shielded high-Z radioactive materials (U, Pu) in cargo or vehicles. The technique uses…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-26 Kondo Gnanvo , Leonard V. Grasso , Marcus Hohlmann , Judson B. Locke , Amilkar S. Quintero , Debasis Mitra

An optimized design of a neutron detector based on timing RPCs (Resistive Plate Chambers) with boron-10 neutron converters is presented. The detector is composed of a stack of ten double gap RPCs with aluminium cathode plates coated on both…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 L. M. S. Margato , G. Canezin , A. Morozov , A. Blanco , J. Saraiva , L. Lopes , P. Fonte