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The high-luminosity high-energy Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) to be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) will provide a clean environment to study several fundamental questions in the high energy and nuclear physics fields. A high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-06 Xuan Li

This Letter reports the event-by-event observation of Cherenkov light from sub-MeV electrons in a high scintillation light-yield liquid argon (LAr) detector by the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) experiment. The CCM200 detector, located at Los…

The DIRC, a novel type of Cherenkov ring imaging device, is the primary hadronic particle identification system for the BABAR detector at the asymmetric B-factory, PEP-II at SLAC. BABAR began taking data with colliding beams mode in late…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen Schwiening , representing the BABAR-DIRC Collaboration

We report on electron identification methods and their performance in the Belle experiment at the KEK-B asymmetric B-Factory $e^{+} e^{-}$ storage ring. Electrons are selected using a likelihood approach that takes information from the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Hanagaki , H. Kakuno , H. Ikeda , T. Iijima , T. Tsukamoto

Cherenkov radiation enables high-energy particle identification through its velocity-dependent emission angle, yet conventional detectors fail to detect momenta beyond tens of GeV/c owing to the absence of natural materials with near-unity…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-29 Zhixiong Xie , Xiao Lin , Song Zhu , Chunyu Huang , Yu Luo , Hao Hu

The LHCb detector will be upgraded to make more efficient use of the available luminosity at the LHC in Run III and extend its potential for discovery. The Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors are key components of the LHCb detector for…

Silicon carbide detectors exhibit good detection performance and are being considered for detection applications. However, the presence of surface electrode of detector limits the application of low-penetration particle detectors,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-29 Zhenyu Jiang , Xuemei Lu , Congcong Wang , Yingjie Huang , Xiaoshen Kang , Suyu Xiao , Xiyuan Zhang , Xin Shi

A new type of resistive plate chamber with thin-film electrodes based on diamond-like carbon is under development for background identification in the MEG II experiment. Installed in a low-momentum and high-intensity muon beam, the detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 Kensuke Yamamoto , Sei Ban , Kei Ieki , Atsuhiko Ochi , Rina Onda , Wataru Ootani , Atsushi Oya , Masato Takahashi

The missing mass spectroscopy of $\Xi^{-}$ hypernuclei with the $(K^{-},K^{+})$ reaction is planned to be performed at the J-PARC K1.8 beam line by using a new magnetic spectrometer, Strangeness $-2$ Spectrometer (S-2S). A $\v{C}$cerenkov…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-07-11 T. Gogami , N. Amano , S. Kanatsuki , T. Nagae , K. Takenaka

The ALICE HMPID (High Momentum Particle IDentification) detector has been designed to identify charged pions and kaons in the range 1 < p < 3 GeV/c and protons in the range 1.5 < p < 5 GeV/c. It consists of seven identical proximity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-18 Giacomo Volpe

HADES is a versatile magnetic spectrometer aimed at studying dielectron production in pion, proton and heavy-ion induced collisions. Its main features include a ring imaging gas Cherenkov detector for electron-hadron discrimination, a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-04-22 The HADES Collaboration , G. Agakishiev , A. Balanda , B. Bannier , R. Bassini , D. Belver , A. V. Belyaev , A. Blanco , M. Boehmer , J. L. Boyard , P. Braun-Munzinger , P. Cabanelas , E. Castro , S. Chernenko , T. Christ , M. Destefanis , J. Diaz , F. Dohrmann , A. Dybczak , T. Eberl , W. Enghardt , L. Fabbietti , O. V. Fateev , P. Finocchiaro , P. Fonte , J. Friese , I. Froehlich , T. Galatyuk , J. A. Garzon , R. Gernhaeuser , A. Gil , C. Gilardi , M. Golubeva , D. Gonzalez-Diaz , F. Guber , M. Heilmann , T. Heinz , T. Hennino , R. Holzmann , A. Ierusalimov , I. Iori , A. Ivashkin , M. Jurkovic , B. Kaempfer , K. Kanaki , T. Karavicheva , D. Kirschner , I. Koenig , W. Koenig , B. W. Kolb , R. Kotte , F. Krizek , R. Kruecken , W. Kuehn , A. Kugler , A. Kurepin , S. Lang , J. S. Lange , K. Lapidus , T. Liu , L. Lopes , M. Lorenz , L. Maier , A. Mangiarotti , J. Markert , V. Metag , B. Michalska , J. Michel , D. Mishra , E. Moriniere , J. Mousa , C. Muentz , L. Naumann , J. Otwinowski , Y. C. Pachmayer , M. Palka , Y. Parpottas , V. Pechenov , O. Pechenova , T. PerezCavalcanti , J. Pietraszko , W. Przygoda , B. Ramstein , A. Reshetin , M. Roy-Stephan , A. Rustamov , A. Sadovsky , B. Sailer , P. Salabura , A. Schmah , E. Schwab , Yu. G. Sobolev , S. Spataro , B. Spruck , H. Stroebele , J. Stroth , C. Sturm , M. Sudol , A. Tarantola , K. Teilab , P. Tlusty , M. Traxler , R. Trebac , H. Tsertos , V. Wagner , M. Weber , M. Wisniowski , T. Wojcik , J. Wuestenfel , S. Yurevich , Y. V. Zanevsky , P. Zhou , P. Zumbruch

Objective: This study aimed at investigating through Monte Carlo simulations the limitations of a novel hybrid Cerenkov-scintillation detector and the associated method for irradiation angle measurements. Approach: Using Monte Carlo…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Emilie Jean , Simon Lambert-Girard , Francois Therriault-Proulx , Luc Beaulieu

This paper proposes a new X-ray radiographic technique for measuring density uniformity of silica aerogels used as radiator in proximity-focusing ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors. To obtain high performance in a large-area detector, a key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-12-17 Makoto Tabata , Yoshikiyo Hatakeyama , Ichiro Adachi , Takeshi Morita , Keiko Nishikawa

The TORCH time-of-flight detector is designed to provide a 15 ps timing resolution for charged particles, resulting in $\pi$/$K$ particle identification up to 10 GeV/c momentum over a 10 m flight path. Cherenkov photons, produced in a…

In the field of high-energy particle detection, detectors operating in high-radiation environments primarily face high costs associated with power consumption and cooling systems. Therefore, the development of particle detectors capable of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-11 Xingchen Li , Sen Zhao , Mengke Cai , Suyu Xiao , Congcong Wang , Weimin Song , Xin Shi , Xiyuan Zhang

The 64-channel Multianode Photo Multiplier (MaPMT) has been evaluated as a candidate for the LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) photo detectors. We present result from data taken with a 3x3 array of closely packed MaPMTs mounted onto the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Muheim

The search for light dark matter and cosmic primordial neutrinos necessitates detectors with sub-millielectronvolt (sub-meV) energy thresholds. While superconducting quantum sensors have approached this sensitivity, they often face…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-05 Aiqin Gao , Yiming Guo , Hengyu Wang , Xilei Sun , Xuegang Li , Junhua Wang , Junguang Lv , Guopu Qu , Lei Cao

This report presents a draft of a new detector designed to determine the chemical composition of primary cosmic rays based on the characteristics of the angular distribution of Cherenkov light from EAS. The installation, consisting of…

We report on the design and commissioning of two silica aerogel Cherenkov detectors with different refractive indices. In particular, extraordinary performance in terms of the number of detected photoelectrons was achieved through an…

The PANDA experiment at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR), Darmstadt, Germany, will address fundamental questions of hadron physics using $\bar{p}p$ annihilations. Excellent Particle…

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