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The sensitivity of experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta-decay of germanium was so far limited by the background induced by external gamma-radiation. Segmented germanium detectors can be used to identify photons and thus reduce…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Abt , A. Caldwell , K. Kröninger , J. Liu , X. Liu , B. Majorovits

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy composed of one site per hemisphere. It aims at 10 times better sensitivity, a better angular resolution and wider energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. Becherini , B. Khélifi , S. Pita , M. Punch

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) combines large collecting area and location on a high dry site to provide it with unparalleled potential for sensitive millimeter/submillimeter spectral line observations. Its wide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alwyn Wootten

For identification and 3D-tracking of low-energy electrons a new type of gas-based detector was designed that minimizes scattering and energy loss. The current version of the detector is a combination of a plastic scintillator, serving as a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-21 D. Rozpedzik , L. De Keukeleere , K. Bodek , L. Hayen , K. Lojek , M. Perkowski , N. Severijns

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments and is planned to be built on two sites (one in each hemisphere) in the coming years, with full array operation foreseen to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jan Ebr , Petr Janecek , Michael Prouza , Jiri Blazek

GALATEA is a test facility designed to investigate bulk and surface effects in high purity germanium detectors. A vacuum tank houses an infrared screened volume with a cooled detector inside. A system of three stages allows an almost…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 I. Abt , A. Caldwell , B. Doenmez , L. Garbini , S. Irlbeck , B. Majorovits , M. Palermo , O. Schulz , H. Seitz , F. Stelzer

Experiments built to search for neutrinoless double beta-decay are limited in their sensitivity not only by the exposure but also by the amount of background encountered. Radioactive isotopes in the surrounding of the detectors which emit…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Abt , A. Caldwell , K. Kröninger , J. Liu , X. Liu , B. Majorovits

Extraterrestrial gamma-ray astronomy is now a source of new knowledge in the fields of astrophysics, cosmic-ray physics, and the nature of dark matter. The next absolutely necessary step in the development of extraterrestrial high-energy…

Streaming applications from algorithmic trading to traffic management deploy Kleene patterns to detect and aggregate arbitrarily-long event sequences, called event trends. State-of-the-art systems process such queries in two steps. Namely,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Olga Poppe , Chuan Lei , Elke A. Rundensteiner , David Maier

Gamma-gamma angular correlation measurements are a powerful tool for identifying the angular momentum (spin) of excited nuclear states involved in a $\gamma$-ray cascade, and for measuring the multipole orders and mixing ratios of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 J. K. Smith , A. D. MacLean , W. Ashfield , A. Chester , A. B. Garnsworthy , C. E. Svensson

Acquisition and analysis of time-tagged events is a ubiquitous tool in scientific and industrial applications. With increasing time resolution, number of input channels, and acquired events, the amount of data can be overwhelming for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-31 Zuzeng Lin , Lucas Schweickert , Samuel Gyger , Klaus D. Jöns , Val Zwiller

Human trajectory forecasting requires capturing the multimodal nature of pedestrian behavior. However, existing approaches suffer from prior misalignment. Their learned or fixed priors often fail to capture the full distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chao Li , Rui Zhang , Siyuan Huang , Xian Zhong , Hongbo Jiang

Hybrid beamforming is an attractive solution to build cost-effective and energy-efficient transceivers for millimeter-wave and terahertz systems. However, conventional hybrid beamforming techniques rely on analog components that generate a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Vishnu V. Ratnam , Jianhua Mo , Ahmad AlAmmouri , Boon L. Ng , Jianzhong , Zhang , Andreas F. Molisch

A compact, portable and large field-of-view gamma camera to identify, locate and quantify gamma-ray emitting radioisotopes in real-time has been developed. The device delivers spectroscopic and imaging capabilities, which allow one to use…

The exposure sequence is being actively studied for user interest modeling in Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction. However, the existing methods for exposure sequence modeling bring extensive computational burden and neglect noise problems,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Xiaoxiao Xu , Zhiwei Fang , Qian Yu , Ruoran Huang , \\Chaosheng Fan , Yong Li , Yang He , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Jingping Shao

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray observatory. CTA will consist of two installations, one in the northern, and the other in the southern hemisphere, containing tens of telescopes of…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory that will allow for observations in the >10 GeV range with unprecedented photon statistics and sensitivity. This will enable the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Alessandro Carosi , Alicia López-Oramas , Francesco Longo

Searches of new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) performed at low energy frontiers are complementary to experiments carried out at high energy colliders. Among the methods for testing the SM and beyond at low energies are the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-08 D. Rozpedzik , K. Bodek , K. Lojek , M. Perkowski , L. De Keukeleere , L. Hayen , N. Severijns , A. Kozela