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A Geant4-based simulation framework for rare event searching experiments with germanium detectors named SAGE is presented with details. It is designed for simulating, assessing background distribution, and investigating the response of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-27 Ze She , Hao Ma , Weihe Zeng , Wenhan Dai , Xinping Geng , Ofoq Normahmedov , Jingzhe Yang , Zhi Zeng , Qian Yue , Jianping Cheng , Junli Li

High-frequency sine wave gating (SWG) InGaAs/InP single-photon detectors (SPDs) are widely used for synchronous near-infrared single-photon detection. For practical use, the size of SPD is one of the most concerning features for system…

The true coincidence summing effect on the full-energy peak efficiency calibration of an unsuppressed clover HPGe detector has been studied. Standard multi-energetic and mono-energetic gamma-ray sources were used to determine the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-06 Ashish Gupta , M. Shareef , Munmun Twisha , Saikat Bhattacharjee , A. Mukherjee

The Spherical gaseous detector (or Spherical Proportional Counter, SPC) is a novel type of par- ticle detector, with a broad range of applications. Its main features include a very low energy threshold independent of the volume (due to its…

INTEGRAL/SPI is a coded mask instrument observing since 2002 in the keV to MeV energy range, which covers the peak of the $\nu F\nu$ spectrum of most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Since its launch in 2008, Fermi/GBM has been the primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Björn Biltzinger , Jochen Greiner , J. Michael Burgess , Thomas Siegert

The spectrometer SPI, one of the two main instruments of the INTEGRAL spacecraft, offers significant gamma-ray burst detection capabilities. In its 35 deg (full width) field of view SPI is able to localise gamma-ray bursts at a mean rate of…

The Gas Amplifier Detector with Germanium Tagging (GADGET) is a new detection system devoted to the measurement of weak, low-energy $\beta$-delayed proton decays relevant for nuclear astrophysics studies. It is comprised of a new gaseous…

At least 25 kinds of detector-like devices need to be integrated in Phase I of the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), and the work needs to be carefully planned to maximise productivity with highly limited human resources. After a systematic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-06 Qun Zhang , Peng-Cheng Li , Ling-Zhu Bian , Chun Li , Zong-Yang Yue , Cheng-Long Zhang , Zhuo-Feng Zhao , Yi Zhang , Gang Li , Ai-Yu Zhou , Yu Liu

Silicon-based photosensors (SiPMs) working in the Geiger-mode represent an elegant solution for the readout of particle detectors working at low-light levels like Cherenkov detectors. Especially the insensitivity to magnetic fields makes…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-09-01 Gamal Ahmed , Paul Buehler , Michael Cargnelli , Roland Hohler , Johann Marton , Herbert Orth , Ken Suzuki

Apart from omnidirectional, a solid elastic sphere is a natural multimode and multifrequency device for the detection of Gravitational Waves (GW). Motion sensing in a spherical GW detector thus requires a multiple set of transducers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Alberto Lobo , M. Angeles Serrano

This paper proposes compressed domain signal processing (CSP) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar, a MIMO radar approach that achieves substantial sample complexity reduction by exploiting the idea of CSP. CSP MIMO radar involves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Ehsan Tohidi , Alireza Hariri , Hamid Behroozi , Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi , Geert Leus , Athina Petropulu

We briefly review the concept and properties of the Thick GEM (THGEM); it is a robust, high-gain gaseous electron multiplier, manufactured economically by standard printed-circuit drilling and etching technology. Its operation and structure…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-12-18 A. Breskin , R. Alon , M. Cortesi , R. Chechik , J. Miyamoto , V. Dangendorf , J. Maia , J. M. F. Dos Santos

A dedicated 4{\pi}{\beta} (LS)-{\gamma} (HPGe)digital coincidence system has been developed in this work, which includes five acquisition channels. Three analog-to-digital converter (ADC) acquisition channels with an acquisition resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Jifeng Chen , Kezhu Song , Juncheng Liang , Jiacheng Liu

We study the entanglement spectrum of the Hubbard model at half filling on a kagome lattice. The entanglement spectrum is defined by the set of eigenvalues of reduced thermal density matrix, which is naturally obtained in the framework of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Masafumi Udagawa , Yukitoshi Motome

Compressive sensing (CS) has been widely studied and applied in many fields. Recently, the way to perform secure compressive sensing (SCS) has become a topic of growing interest. The existing works on SCS usually take the sensing matrix as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Yushu Zhang , Kwok-Wo Wong , Di Xiao , Leo Yu Zhang , Ming Li

Proportional scintillation counters (PSCs), both single- and dual-phase, can measure the scintillation (S1) and ionization (S2) channels from particle interactions within the detector volume. The signal obtained from these detectors depends…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-23 Kareem Kazkaz , Tenzing Henry Yatish Joshi

Discovering radio pulsars in compact binaries, whose orbital periods $P_{\rm b}$ satisfy $P_{\rm b} \lesssim 1 \, \rm{day}$, is computationally challenging, because the time-dependent pulse frequency $f_{\rm p}(t)$ is strongly Doppler…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-05 Joseph O'Leary , Liam Dunn , Andrew Melatos

High Purity germanium point-contact detectors have low energy thresholds and excellent energy resolution over a wide energy range, and are thus widely used in nuclear and particle physics. In rare event searches, such as neutrinoless double…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Mertens , A. Hegai , D. C. Radford , N. Abgrall , Y. -D. Chan , R. D. Martin , A. W. P. Poon , C. Schmitt

The upgrade to the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider will pose unprecedented challenges to the tracking systems of all experiments. Recent advancement of active pixel detectors designed in CMOS processes provide attractive alternatives…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-13 T. Bisanz , J. Große-Knetter , A. Quadt , J. Rieger , J. Weingarten