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In this paper, the low-mass electron pair production in 158 AGeV/c Pb-Au collisions is investigated with the Cherenkov Ring Electron Spectrometer (CERES) at the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator (SPS) at CERN. The main goal is to search…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 Gunar Hering

The DIRC is a Cherenkov imaging detector based on total internal reflection for the BaBar detector at PEP-II. The principles of the DIRC ring imaging Cherenkov technique are explained and its choice for the BaBar detector particle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Schwiening

Diffuse X-ray Explorer (DIXE) is a proposed X-ray spectroscopic survey experiment for the China Space Station. Its detector assembly (DA) contains the transition edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeter and readout electronics based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Jiejia Liu , Sifan Wang , Hai Jin , Qian Wang , Wei Cui

Imaging Cherenkov detectors are crucial for particle identification (PID) in nuclear and particle physics experiments. Fast reconstruction algorithms are essential for near real-time alignment, calibration, data quality control, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-11 Cristiano Fanelli , James Giroux , Justin Stevens

The SPHERE-2 balloon-borne detector designed for extensive air shower (EAS) observations using EAS optical Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (``Cherenkov light''), reflected from the snow-covered surface of Lake Baikal is described. We briefly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-04 R. A. Antonov , E. A. Bonvech , D. V. Chernov , T. A. Dzhatdoev , M. Finger , M. Finger , D. A. Podgrudkov , T. M. Roganova , A. V. Shirokov , I. A. Vaiman

The DIRC technology (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) offers an excellent possibility to minimize the form factor of Cherenkov detectors in hermetic high energy detectors. The PANDA experiment at FAIR in Germany will…

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), of energy >10 EeV, arrive at the Earth regularly, but their sources, acceleration mechanisms, details of propagation through the universe, and particle composition remain mysteries. In addition, their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-10 Sijbrand de Jong

This study introduces chromatic calorimetry, a novel particle detection method that uses strategically layered scintillators with different emission wavelengths. This approach aims to enhance energy measurement by capturing particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-16 Devanshi Arora , Matteo Salomoni , Yacine Haddad , Vojtech Zabloudil , Michael Doser , Masaki Owari , Etiennette Auffray

Sparse digital antenna arrays constitute a promising detection technique for future large-scale cosmic-ray observatories. It has recently been shown that this kind of instrumentation can provide a resolution of the energy and of the shower…

The DIRC is a new type of Cherenkov detector that is successfully operating as the hadronic particle identification system for the BABAR experiment at SLAC. The fused silica bars that serve as the DIRC's Cherenkov radiators must transmit…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Convery , B. Ratcliff , X. Sarazin , J. Schwiening , J. Va'vra

SHiP is a proposed general purpose fixed target facility at the CERN SPS accelerator. The main focus will be the physics of the Hidden Sector, \textit{i.e.} search for heavy neutrinos, dark photons and other long lived very weakly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-05 Elena Graverini

A honeycomb detector consisting of a matrix of 96 closely packed hexagonal cells, each working as a proportional counter with a wire readout, was fabricated and tested at the CERN PS. The cell depth and the radial dimensions of the cell…

The PICOSEC detector concept uses a micro-pattern gaseous detector (MPGD) amplification structure combined with a Cerenkov radiator coated with a semi-transparent photocathode to provide below tens of picosecond-level precision timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-12 Kondo Gnanvo

A new concept for the direct measurement of muons in air showers is presented. The concept is based on resistive plate chambers (RPCs), which can directly measure muons with very good space and time resolution. The muon detector is shielded…

SHiP is a new general purpose fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS designed to complement LHC experiments in the search for new physics. In its initial phase, the $400$ GeV proton beam extracted from the SPS will be dumped on a heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-23 Oliver Lantwin

The D0 preshower detector consists of scintillator strips with embedded wavelength-shifting fibers, and a readout using Visible Light Photon Counters. The response to minimum ionizing particles has been tested with cosmic ray muons. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Baringer

Optimization of the SPHERE-3 detector configuration, designed to study the mass composition of primary cosmic rays in the energy range 1--1000 PeV by registering Cherenkov light reflected from the snow surface, requires simulation of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 V. A. Ivanov , V. I. Galkin , E. A. Bonvech , O. V. Cherkesova , D. V. Chernov , T. A. Kolodkin , N. O. Ovcharenko , D. A. Podgrudkov , T. M. Roganova , M. D. Ziva

Extensice Air Shower (EAS) arrays are survey instruments able to monitor continuously all the overhead sky. Their wide field of view (about 2 sr) is ideal to complement directional detectors by performing unbiased sky surveys, by monitoring…

The goal of the DIRAC experiment at CERN is to measure with high precision the lifetime of the $\pi^+\pi^-$ atom ($A_{2\pi}$), which is of order $3\times10^{-15}$ s, and thus to determine the s-wave $\pi\pi$-scattering lengths difference…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The DIRAC collaboration

A new method to study Extensive Air Shower (EAS) hadronic component is proposed. It is shown that addition of specific detectors for thermal neutron detection to a standard array for EAS study can significantly improve its performance.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri V. Stenkin