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A novel type of EAS array (PRISMA-32) has been constructed on the base of NEVOD-DECOR experiment (MEPhI,Moscow) and is now taking data. It consists of 32 specially designed scintillator en-detectors able to measure two main EAS components:…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-08 Yu. V. Stenkin , D. M. Gromushkin , A. A. Petrukhin , O. B. Shchegolev , V. I. Stepanov , V. I. Volchenko , I. I. Yashin , E. A. Zadeba

A Monte Carlo simulation-based optimization of a multilayer 10B-RPC thermal neutron detector is performed targeting an increase in the counting rate capability while maintaining high (>50%) detection efficiency for thermal neutrons. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 A. Morozov , L. M. S. Margato , I. Stefanescu

The next generation of very-short-baseline reactor experiments will require compact detectors operating at surface level and close to a nuclear reactor. This paper presents a new detector concept based on a composite solid scintillator…

Neutron scattering techniques offer a unique combination of structural and the dynamic information of atomic and molecular systems over a wide range of distances and times. The increasing complexity in science investigations driven by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-30 Giacomo Mauri

This letter explains a new, highly sensitive method for the detection of neutrons, which uses the T$_{1/2}=845$ ns delay in the decay of $^{128}$I at the 137.8 keV energy level, resulting from the capture of thermal neutrons by iodine…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 E. Yakushev , S. Rozov , A. Drokhlyansky , D. Filosofov , Z. Kalaninova , V. Timkin , D. Ponomarev

The SDHCAL technological prototype is a $1 \times 1 \times 1.3$ m$^3$ high-granularity Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chambers as sensitive medium. It is one of the two HCAL options considered by the ILD…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Gérald Grenier

HEIMDAL is a thermal powder diffractometer designed to operate at the European Spallation Source, world's most intense neutron source. The detailed design of the instrument, which is expected to enter user operation in 2024/2025, assumes…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 I. Stefanescu , M. Christensen , R. Hall-Wilton , S. Holm-Dahlin , K. Iversen , M. Klein , D. Mannix , J. Schefer , C. J. Schmidt , W. Schweika , U. Stuhr

Monitoring of high energy cosmic ray neutrons is of particular interest for cosmic ray water Cherenkov detectors as intense bundles of delayed neutrons have been found to arrive after the initial passage of a high energy air shower. In this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-02 P. Stowell , S. Fargher , L. F. Thompson , A. M. Brown , P. M. Chadwick

The CALICE collaboration is currently developing engineering prototypes of electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for a future linear collider detector. This detector is designed to be used in particle-flow based event reconstruction. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Mark Terwort

We have designed and tested a large-area (0.15~m$^2$) neutron detector based on neutron capture on \ce{^{6}Li}. The neutron detector design has been optimized for the purpose of tagging the scattering angle of keV-scale neutrons. These…

In the field of neutron scattering science, a large variety of instruments require detectors for thermal and cold neutrons. Helium-3 has been one of the main actors in thermal and cold neutron detection for many years. Nowadays neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-21 Francesco Piscitelli , Giacomo Mauri , Alessio Laloni , Richard Hall-Wilton

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype using Glass Resistive Plate Chambers as a sensitive medium is the first technological prototype of a family of high-granularity calorimeters developed by the CALICE…

The Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) is a proposed upgrade to the LHC, to provide high energy, high luminosity electron-proton collisions to run concurrently with Phase 2 of the LHC. The baseline design of a detector for the LHeC is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Peter Kostka , Alessandro Polini , David M. South

We present a new approach to identification of boosted neutral particles using Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) of the LHCb detector. The identification of photons and neutral pions is currently based on the geometric parameters which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Alexey Boldyrev , Viktoria Chekalina , Fedor Ratnikov

A prototype of neutron spectrometer based on diamond detectors has been developed. This prototype consists of a $^6$Li neutron converter sandwiched between two CVD diamond crystals. The radiation hardness of the diamond crystals makes it…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-26 M. Osipenko , F. Pompili , M. Ripani , M. Pillon , G. Ricco , B. Caiffi , R. Cardarelli , G. Verona-Rinati , S. Argiro

NEUT is a neutrino-nucleus interaction simulation. It can be used to simulate interactions for neutrinos with between 100 MeV and a few TeV of energy. NEUT is also capable of simulating hadron interactions within a nucleus and is used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Yoshinari Hayato , Luke Pickering

The MUonE experiment proposes a novel approach to determine the leading hadronic contribution to the muon g-2, from a precise measurement of the differential cross section of the $\mu-e$ elastic scattering, achievable by using the CERN SPS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-09 E. Spedicato

The electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) is a key detector component for precise electron and photon measurements in electron-ion collision experiments. At the Electron-Ion Collider in China (EicC), high-performance calorimetry is essential…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-23 Ye Tian , Souvik Maity , Jingyu Li , Yuancai Wu , Shan Sha , Yutie Liang , Aiqiang Guo , Yuxiang Zhao , Dexu Lin

We propose the Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) detector as a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector. It will serve as a far detector of a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment envisioned for the upgraded J-PARC, and as a…