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Neutron-induced fission reaction studies with minor actinides using a double Frisch grid fission detector

Neutron-induced fission cross-section studies are being pursued with a double Frisch grid fission detector. We are working towards conducting neutron-induced fission cross-section measurements of high priority 241Am(n, f) and 244,245Cm(n,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-03 Chandrabhan Yadav , Dvir Ben Simhon , Moshe Friedman

Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

A significant challenge in measurements of neutrino oscillations is reconstructing the incoming neutrino energies. While modern fully-active tracking calorimeters such as liquid argon time projection chambers in principle allow the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-03 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , O. Alterkait , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , J. Y. Book , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , Y. Cao , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , R. Fine , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , O. Hen , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , Z. Imani , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , D. Kalra , N. Kamp , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , H. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , K. Miller , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , W. Tang , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

A New Concept for Kilotonne Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

We develop a novel approach for a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) concept suitable for deployment in kilotonne scale detectors, with a charge-readout system free from reconstruction ambiguities, and a robust TPC design that reduces…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-15 M. Auger , R. Berner , Y. Chen , A. Ereditato , D. Goeldi , P. P. Koller , I. Kreslo , D. Lorca , T. Mettler , F. Piastra , J. R. Sinclair , M. Weber , C. Wilkinson , M. Convery , L. Domine , F. Drielsma , R. Itay , D. H. Koh , H. A. Tanaka , K. Terao , P. Tsang , T. Usher , D. A. Dwyer , S. Kohn , P. Madigan , C. M. Marshall , A. Bross , J. Asaadi

A New Beam Monitor at NFS/SPIRAL2 Based on Position-Sensitive PPACs Detecting Fission Fragments from ${}^{238}$U$(n,f)$

A new experimental setup has been installed at the Time-Of-Flight area of the Neutrons For Science facility (NFS) at GANIL/SPIRAL2 for neutron beam monitoring. This setup consists of an array of Position-Sensitive Parallel-Plate Avalanche…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-14 D. Ramos , X. Ledoux , L. Audouin , G. Fremont , P. Gangnant , J. C. Foy , C. Le Naour , M. Maloubier

Detector performance of the NEWAGE experiment

NEWAGE(NEw generation WIMP search with an Advanced Gaseous tracking device Experiment) project is a direction-sensitive dark matter search experiment with a gaseous micro time-projection-chamber(micro-TPC). We report on the performance of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-09 Kentaro Miuchi , Kaori Hattori , Shigeto Kabuki , Hidetoshi Kubo , Shunsuke Kurosawa , Hironobu Nishimura , Yoko Okada , Atsushi Takada , Toru Tanimori , Ken'ichi Tsuchiya , Kazuki Ueno , Hiroyuki Sekiya , Atsushi Takeda

Tagging fast neutrons from a 252Cf fission-fragment source

Coincidence and time-of-flight measurement techniques are employed to tag fission neutrons emitted from a 252Cf source sealed on one side with a very thin layer of Au. The source is positioned within a gaseous 4He scintillator detector.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-24 Julius Scherzinger , Ramsey Al Jebali , John Annand , Kevin Fissum , Richard Hall-Wilton , Nicholai Mauritzson , Francesco Messi , Hanno Perrey , Emil Rofors

High Quality Actinide Targets

We prepare high quality actinide targets for studies of neutron induced and charged particle induced fission. I report on our efforts to measure fragment energy loss in the target backings and to diagnose the crud problem frequently found…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-08 W. Loveland

Progress in Fission Fragment Rocket Engine Development and Alpha Particle Detection in High Magnetic Fields

In this article, we present our recent experiments on fission fragment rocket propulsion, and on an innovative new design for an alpha particle detection system that has been inspired by these rocketry results. Our test platform, which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-24 Sandeep Puri , Cuikun Lin , Andrew Gillespie , Ian Jones , Christopher Carty , Mitchell Kelley , Ryan Weed , Robert V. Duncan

Toward an automated analysis of slow ions in nuclear track emulsion

Application of the nuclear track emulsion technique (NTE) in radioactivity and nuclear fission studies is discussed. It is suggested to use a HSP-1000 automated microscope for searching for a collinear cluster tri-partition of heavy nuclei…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-13 K. Z. Mamatkulov , R. R. Kattabekov , I. Ambrozova , D. A. Artemenkov , V. Bradnova , D. V. Kamanin , L. Majling , A. Marey , O. Ploc , V. V. Rusakova , R. Stanoeva , K. Turek , A. A. Zaitsev , P. I. Zarubin , I. G. Zarubina

Upgrade of the ALICE central barrel tracking detectors: ITS and TPC

The ALICE Collaboration will undertake a major upgrade of the detector apparatus during the second LHC Long Shutdown LS2 (2019-2020) in view of the Runs 3 and 4 (2021-2029). The objective of the upgrade is two-fold: i) an improvement of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-08 Gasik fo the ALICE Collaboration

Space-point calibration of the ALICE TPC with track residuals

In the upcoming LHC Run 3, starting in 2021, the upgraded Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of the ALICE experiment will record minimum bias Pb-Pb collisions in a continuous readout mode at an interaction rate up to 50 kHz. This corresponds to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Marten Ole Schmidt

The upgrade of the ALICE Inner Tracking System

ALICE is a general purpose experiment dedicated to the study of nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC. After more than 3 years of successful operation, an upgrade of the apparatus during the second long shutdown of LHC (LS2) in 2017/18 is in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Serhiy Senyukov

ALICE TPC upgrade for High-Rate operations

A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed for the upgrade of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN) so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-17 Saikat Biswas

The Mini-CAPTAIN Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

This manuscript describes the commissioning of the Mini-CAPTAIN liquid argon detector in a neutron beam at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), which led to a first measurement of high-energy neutron interactions in argon. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-19 CAPTAIN Collaboration , C. E. Taylor , B. Bhandari , J. Bian , K. Bilton , C. Callahan , J. Chaves , H. Chen , D. Cline , R. L. Cooper , D. L. Danielson , J. Danielson , N. Dokania , S. Elliot , S. Fernandes , S. Gardiner , G. Garvey , V. Gehman , F. Giuliani , S. Glavin , M. Gold , C. Grant , E. Guardincerri , T. Haines , A. Higuera , J. Y. Ji , R. Kadel , N. Kamp , A. Karlin , W. Ketchum , L. W. Koerner , D. Lee , K. Lee , Q. Liu , S. Locke , W. C. Louis , P. Madigan , A. Manalaysay , J. Maricic , E. Martin , M. J. Martinez , S. Martynenko , C. Mauger , C. McGrew , J. Medina , P. J. Medina , G. Mills , J. Mirabal-Martinez , A. Olivier , E. Pantic , B. Philipbar , C. Pitcher , V. Radeka , J. Ramsey , K. Rielage , M. Rosen , A. R. Sanchez , J. Shin , G. Sinnis , M. Smy , W. Sondheim , I. Stancu , C. Sterbenz , Y. Sun , R. Svoboda , A. Teymourian , C. Thorn , C. E. Tull , M. Tzanov , R. Van de Water , N. Walsh , H. Wang , Y. Wang , C. Yanagisawa , A. Yarritu , J. Yoo

Neutrino-argon cross-section measurements from the MicroBooNE experiment

MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector located along the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam and 8 degrees off-axis to the Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam. MicroBooNE collected data from both beams…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-02 Liang Liu

The STAR Time Projection Chamber: A Unique Tool for Studying High Multiplicity Events at RHIC

The STAR Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is used to record collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The TPC is the central element in a suite of detectors that surrounds the interaction vertex. The TPC provides complete…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Anderson , J. Berkovitz , W. Betts , R. Bossingham , F. Bieser , R. Brown , M. Burkes , M. Calderon de la Barca Sanchez , D. Cebra , M. Cherney , J. Chrin , W. R. Edwards , V. Ghazikhanian , D. Greiner , M. Gilkes , D. Hardtke , G. Harper , E. Hjort , H. Huang , G. Igo , S. Jacobson , D. Keane , S. R. Klein , G. Koehler , L. Kotchenda , B. Lasiuk , A. Lebedev , J. Lin , M. Lisa , H. S. Matis , J. Nystrand , S. Panitkin , D. Reichold , F. Retiere , I. Sakrejda , K. Schweda , D. Shuman , R. Snellings , N. Stone , B. Stringfellow , J. H. Thomas , T. Trainor , S. Trentalange , R. Wells , C. Whitten , H. Wieman , E. Yamamoto , W. Zhang

MicroBooNE, A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) Neutrino Experiment

Liquid Argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is a promising detector technology for future neutrino experiments. MicroBooNE is an upcoming LArTPC neutrino experiment which will be located on-axis of Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Teppei Katori

Experiments towards a neutron target for measurements in inverse kinematics

Neutron-induced reactions play an important role in fundamental nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, and applications. In the case of reactions on rare isotopes, there are limited options for direct experimental measurements. The Neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-06 S. F. Dellmann , C. M. Harrington , O. R. Cantrell , A. L. Cooper , A. Couture , D. V. Gorelov , I. Knapová , S. M. Mosby , R. Reifarth , A. Alvarez , A. Aprahamian , J. Butz , I. J. Bos , M. T. Febbraro , T. Hankins , B. M. Harvey , T. Heftrich , M. Le , J. J. Manfredi , A. B. McIntosh , K. V. Manukyan , M. Matney , S. Regener , D. Robertson , A. Simon , D. Sokolovic , E. Stech , G. Tabacaru , W. Tan , M. Wiescher , S. Yennello

Experimental Neutron-Induced Fission Fragment Mass Yields of 232Th and 238U at Energies from 10 to 33 MeV

Development of nuclear energy applications requires data for neutron-induced reactions for actinides in a wide neutron energy range. Here we describe measurements of pre-neutron emission fission fragment mass yields of 232Th and 238U at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-04-09 V. D. Simutkin , S. Pomp , J. Blomgren , M. Österlund , R. Bevilacqua , I. V. Ryzhov , G. A. Tutin , S. G. Yavshits , L. A. Vaishnene , M. S. Onegin , J. P. Meulders , R. Prieels

A {\mu}-TPC detector for the characterization of low energy neutron fields

The AMANDE facility produces monoenergetic neutron fields from 2 keV to 20 MeV for metrological purposes. To be considered as a reference facility, fluence and energy distributions of neutron fields have to be determined by primary…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-05-17 C. Golabek , J. Billard , A. Allaoua , G. Bosson , O. Bourrion , C. Grignon , O. Guillaudin , L. Lebreton , F. Mayet , M. Petit , J. -P. Richer , D. Santos