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The COMET experiment focuses on searching for the direct conversion of a muon into an electron on an aluminum nucleus without emitting a neutrino (so-called $\mu\rightarrow e$ conversion). This conversion violates the lepton flavor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-10 N. Tsverava , G. Adamov , D. Chokheli , H. Nishiguchi , T. Toriashvili , Z. Tsamalaidze

A muon-flux measurement behind the beam dump of the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility was performed with a compact muon detector that can be inserted into a vertical observing hole with 81 mm in diameter which was dug underground. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-30 T. Matsumura , Y. Hirayama , G. Y. Lim , H. Nanjo , T. Nomura , K. Shiomi , H. Watanabe

The SIDDHARTA-2 experiment at the DA$\Phi$NE collider aims to perform precision measurements of kaonic atoms X-ray spectroscopy for the investigation of the antikaon-nucleon strong interaction. To achieve this goal, novel large-area Silicon…

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

We developed and built a new system of readout and trigger electronics, based on the waveform digitization and pipeline readout, for the KOTO experiment at J-PARC, Japan. KOTO aims at observing the rare kaon decay…

A scintillating fibre tracker is proposed to measure elastic proton scattering at very small angles in the ATLAS experiment at CERN. The tracker will be located in so-called Roman Pot units at a distance of 240 m on each side of the ATLAS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Anghinolfi

Cosmic-ray muons, owing to their high penetration power and abundance, have been widely employed as a natural probe in experimental particle physics. We developed a meter-scale cosmic-ray muon telescope, consisting of two parallel…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-07 Yan Niu , Anqing Wang , Xiangxiang Ren , Dong Liu , Meng Wang

The Forward Silicon Tracker (FST) is a pivotal component of the forward upgrade of the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR), designed to discern hadron charge signs with a momentum resolution better than 30% for $0.2 < p_T < 2$ GeV/c in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-16 J. D. Brandenburg , Y. Chang , J. Dong , Y. He , Y. Hu , B. Huang , H. Huang , T. Huang , H. Li , M. Nie , R. Sharma , X. Sun , P. Tribedy , F. Videbæk , G. Visser , G. Wilks , P. Wang , G. Xie , G. Yan , Z. Ye , L. Yi , Y. Yang , S. Zhang , Z. Zhang

Recent measurements of kaon decays provide new information about CKM unitarity, lepton universality, and discrete symmetries. KLOE-2, the proposed extension of the kaon physics program at Frascati, will extend the world data set on kaon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-03-03 Matthew Moulson

Over these years, Correlation Filter-based Trackers (CFTs) have aroused increasing interests in the field of visual object tracking, and have achieved extremely compelling results in different competitions and benchmarks. In this paper, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Zhe Chen , Zhibin Hong , Dacheng Tao

J-PET is a photon detector built of plastic scintillators, which already has been commissioned for CPT studies in the decays of positronium. In the first experiment, J-PET has achieved a sensitivity to CPT violation at a level of 10^{-4},…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-28 Neha Chug , Aleksander Gajos

Tomographic imaging techniques using the Coulomb scattering of cosmic-ray muons are increasingly being exploited for the non-destructive assay of shielded containers in a wide range of applications. One such application is the…

After the successfully performed DEAR experiment at DAFNE - resulting in the most precise data on the hadronic shift and width in kaonic hydrogen up-to-now - the next step will be the measurement at the percent level using new X-ray…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Marton

We present a prototype for the first tracking detector consisting of 250 micron thin scintillating fibers and silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays. The detector has a modular design, each module consists of a mechanical support structure…

The availability of high-intensity kaon beams at the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility and the CERN SPS North Area, together with the abundant forward production of kaons at the LHC, gives rise to unique possibilities for sensitive tests…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-29 The KOTO , LHCb , NA62/KLEVER Collaborations , the US Kaon Interest Group

This note describes a prototype particle tracking detector constructed with 1 mm plastic scintillating fibres with a 64 channel Hamamatsu H8500 flat-panel multi-anode photomultiplier readout. Cosmic ray tracks from an array of 11 gas-filled…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-06 B. D. Leverington , M. Anelli , P. Campana , R. Rosellini

The rare kaon decay $K_L\to\pi^0\nu\bar{\nu}$ is extremely sensitive to new physics, because the contribution to this decay in the Standard Model (SM) is highly suppressed and known very accurately; the branching ratio is $3\times 10^{-11}$…

In this paper, we present development of a portable cosmic muon tracker tailored for both on-site measurements of cosmic muon flux as well as for outreach activities. The tracker comprises of two 70 mm x 70 mm plastic scintillators,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-02 Yuvaraj Elangovan , Shashwat Kakkad , B. Satyanarayana

A precise measurement of the hadron production from interactions of 30 GeV protons on carbon target is performed by NA61 (SHINE) experiment at the CERN SPS. The inclusive spectra of pions and kaons on the carbon target obtained from NA61…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-01-22 Magdalena Posiadala , for NA61 , Collaboration

Scintillating fibre detectors combine sub-mm resolution particle tracking, precise measurements of the particle stopping power and sub-ns time resolution. Typically, fibres are read out with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Hence, if fibres…