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The Spherical Proportional Counter is a novel type of radiation detector, with a low energy threshold (typically below 100 eV) and good energy resolution. This detector is being developed by the network NEWS, which includes several…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-09 F. J. Iguaz , A. Rodriguez , J. F. Castel , I. G. Irastorza

Design of a muon collider interaction region (IR) presents a number of challenges arising from low {\beta} * < 1 cm, correspondingly large beta-function values and beam sizes at IR magnets, as well as the necessity to protect…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Y. I. Alexahin , E. Gianfelice-Wendt , V. V. Kashikhin , N. V. Mokhov , A. V. Zlobin , V. Y. Alexakhin

Design of a muon collider interaction region (IR) presents a number of challenges arising from low {\beta}* < 1 cm, correspondingly large beta-function values and beam sizes at IR magnets, as well as the necessity to protect superconducting…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. I. Alexahin , E. Gianfelice-Wendt , V. V. Kashikhin , N. V. Mokhov , A. V. Zlobin , V. Y. Alexakhin

For a hadron calorimeter active element there is considered a gaseous secondary emis-sion detector (150 micron gap, 50 kV/cm). Such one-stage parallel plate chamber must be a radiation hard, fast and simple. A model of such detector has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-11 V. In'shakov , V. Kryshkin , V. Skvortsov

The aim of the paper is to investigate possibility of utilizing a shallow underground laboratory for the study of energy dependent solar modulation process and to find an optimum detector configuration sensitive to primaries of widest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-03 Nikola Veselinović , Aleksandar Dragić , Mihailo Savić , Dimitrije Maletić , Dejan Joković , Radomir Banjanac , Vladimir Udovičić

A muon tracking system consisting of four 9cm x 10cm sized bulk Micromegas detectors with 128um amplification-gap and two 10cm x 10cm triple GEM detectors is foreseen for high-precision tracking of 140GeV muons at the H8 beamline at CERN…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan Bortfeldt , Otmar Biebel , David Heereman , Ralf Hertenberger

As part of the collaboration building a set of detectors for the new collider, our group was tasked with designing and building a large-scale cosmic ray detector, which was to complement the capabilities of the MPD (Dubna) detec-tor set.…

A new design of a detector module of submillimeter thickness for an electromagnetic calorimeter is presented. It is aimed to be used in the luminometers LumiCal and BeamCal in future linear e$^{+}$e$^{-}$ collider experiments. The module…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Oleksandr Borysov

We present an original design for large area gaseous detectors based on the MICROMEGAS technology. This technology incorporates an insulating grid, sandwiched between the micro-mesh and the anode-pad plane, which provides an uniform 200…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-16 D. Bernard , H. Delagrange , D. G. d'Enterria , M. Le Guay , G. Martínez , M. J. Mora , P. Pichot , D. Roy , Y. Schutz , A. Gandi , R. de Oliveira

Precise measurement of straw axial coordinate (along the anode wire) with accuracy compatible with straw radial coordinate determination by drift time measurement and increase of straw detector rate capability by using straw cathode readout…

We report on the design and performance of a spark-resistant bulk-micromegas chamber. The principle of this design lends itself to the construction of large-area muon chambers for the upgrade of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-25 J. Burnens , R. de Oliveira , G. Glonti , O. Pizzirusso , V. Polychronakos , G. Sekhniaidze , J. Wotschack

A compact versatile photoacoustic (PA) sensor for trace gas detection is reported. The sensor is based on an integrating sphere as the PA absorption cell with an organ pipe tube attached to increase the sensitivity of the PA sensor. The…

Increasing interest in energetic particle effects on weather and climate has motivated development of a miniature scintillator-based detector intended for deployment on meteorological radiosondes or unmanned airborne vehicles. The detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-17 Karen L Aplin , Aaron A Briggs , R Giles Harrison , Graeme J Marlton

We have developed and constructed the field cage of a prototype Time Projection Chamber for research and development studies for a detector at the International Linear Collider. This prototype has an inner diameter of 72 cm and a length of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-03-28 Ties Behnke , Klaus Dehmelt , Ralf Diener , Lea Hallermann , Takeshi Matsuda , Volker Prahl , Peter Schade

The opportunity of optimization of collimator was investigated by changing collimator length, material and wall roughness for soft x-ray radiation with wavelength 4 nm corresponding to carbon atoms absorption. From the obtained results…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-14 L. I. Ognev

Being able to measure each merger's sky location, distance, component masses, and conceivably spins, ground-based gravitational-wave detectors will provide a extensive and detailed sample of coalescing compact binaries (CCBs) in the local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 R. O'Shaughnessy

A check of the eccentricity of the aluminised kapton straw tubes used in the BTeV experiment is accomplished using X-ray tomography of the section of tubes modules. 2 and 3-dimensional images of the single tubes and of the modules are…

Recent advances in low-cost, portable cosmic-ray detectors have broadened citizen-science engagement in particle physics studies. Imaging applications such as muography, however, remain largely inaccessible because existing detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-09 Chiori Matsushita , Mihiro Nukiwa , Aoi Atobe , Yuzuka Sasaki , Manami Sawai , Rikako Kono , Seyma Esen , Martin Schwinzerl , Kazuo S. Tanaka

We propose to use stopping cosmic-ray muons in the energy calibration of planned and deployed large underwater detectors. The method is based on the proportionality between the incident muon energy and the length of the muon path before it…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Kudryavtsev , R. A. Brook , S. L. Cartwright , J. E. McMillan , N. J. C. Spooner , L. F. Thompson

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