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The existing CMS endcap calorimeters will be replaced with a High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) for operation at the High Luminosity (HL) LHC. Radiation hardness and excellent physics performance will be achieved by utilising silicon pad…

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Within the CALICE collaboration, several concepts for the hadronic calorimeter of a future lepton collider detector are studied. After having demonstrated the capabilities of the measurement methods in "physics prototypes", the focus now…

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The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will integrate 10 times more luminosity than the LHC, posing significant challenges for radiation tolerance and event pileup on detectors, especially for forward calorimetry, and hallmarks the issue for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-01 Florian Pitters

Radiation damage to a Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM), as it occurs during the lifetime of the planned CMS high-granularity calorimeter detector, increases the dark current and degrades the signal-to-noise separation for minimum-ionizing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-29 Katjana Neumann , Massimiliano Antonello , Lukas Brinkmann , Erika Garutti , Jörn Schwandt

We describe the testing of a prototype SiPM-on-tile iron-scintillator calorimeter at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) during its 200 GeV $pp$ run in 2024. The prototype, measuring $20 \times 20 \, \text{cm}^{2}$ and 24 radiation…

A front-end readout system with a large dynamic range is required for the high-granularity crystal electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) at future Higgs factories. A new commercially available ASIC, MPT2321, which offers a significantly large…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-23 Baohua Qi , Yong Liu , Huangchao Shi , Danqi Wang , Zhiyu Zhao , Hongbo Zhu

As part of its HL-LHC upgrade program, the CMS collaboration is replacing its existing endcap calorimeters with a high-granularity calorimeter (CE). The new calorimeter is a sampling calorimeter with unprecedented transverse and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-30 CMS HGCAL Collaboration

The HL-LHC will challenge the detectors with a nearly 10-fold increase in integrated luminosity compared to the previous LHC runs combined, thus the CMS detector will be upgraded to face the higher levels of radiation and the larger amounts…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-10 CMS HGCAL collaboration

In the context of the Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker for the LHCb Upgrade 2, radiation-induced damage in silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) has been studied over a wide temperature range, from room temperature down to 100 K. With the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-27 Esteban Currás-Rivera , Guido Haefeli , Federico Ronchetti

Silicon Photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are very sensitive photo-detectors that experienced a big development in the last years in several applications, like LIDAR, astrophysics, medical imaging and high energy physics (HEP) experiments. In HEP…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-16 Anna Rita Altamura , Fabio Acerbi , Benedetto Di Ruzza , Enrico Verroi , Stefano Merzi , Alberto Gola

Conventional silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are well established as light detectors with single-photon-detection capability and used throughout high energy physics, medical, and commercial applications. The possibility to produce single…

We report on a beam test of a Silicon Photo-Multiplier (SiPM)-on-tile Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) prototype developed for the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The detector implements the staggered scintillator-tile geometry envisioned…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-23 Sean Preins , Weibin Zhang , Ryan Tsiao , Mia Macias , Brice Saunders , Love Preet , Miguel Arratia

A tracking detector based on two meters long scintillating fibers read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) is being developed for the Kaos spectrometer at the Mainz Microtron MAMI. Results from a prototype setup using 2 mm square fibers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-22 P. Achenbach , J. Pochodzalla , S. Sánchez Majos

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) have gained significant traction as an alternative technology to the well-established photomultiplier tube (PMT), with numerous high-sensitivity experiments adopting them either complementarily or as a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-24 Giuseppe Matteucci

The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will integrate 10 times more luminosity than the LHC, posing significant challenges for radiation tolerance and event pileup on detectors, especially for forward calorimetry, and hallmarks the issue for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-18 Arabella Martelli

High-granularity homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeters based on scintillating crystals and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a promising option for future $e^{+}e^{-}$ Higgs factories, where both excellent energy resolution and a very…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-10 Zhiyu Zhao , Dejing Du , Shu Li , Yong Liu , Baohua Qi , Jack Rolph , Haijun Yang

There is growing interest in high-energy astrophysics community for the development of sensitive instruments in the hard X-ray energy extending to few hundred keV. This requires position sensitive detector modules with high efficiency in…

The detector of TRopIcal DEep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) will use large-area silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays combined with photomultiplier tubes to boost photon detection efficiency and pointing capability. An…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-06 M. X. Wang , Y. Liu , Y. Q. Tan , J. N. Tang , W. H. Wu , D. L. Xu , W. Zhi , Z. Z. Zhou

Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPM) are state of the art light detectors with unprecedented single photon sensitivity and photon number resolving capability, representing a breakthrough in several fundamental and applied Science domains. An…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-01 V. Arosio , M. Caccia , V. Chmill , A. Ebolese , A. Martemiyanov , F. Risigo , R. Santoro , M. Locatelli , M. Pieracci , C. Tintori

During the high-luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC), planned to start around 2027, the accelerator is expected to deliver an instantaneous peak luminosity of up to $7.5\times10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. A total integrated luminosity of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration