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A next-generation medium-energy gamma-ray telescope targeting the MeV range would address open questions in astrophysics regarding how extreme conditions accelerate cosmic-ray particles, produce relativistic jet outflows, and more. One…

Wavelength-dependent polarization state of light carries crucial information about light-matter interactions. However, its measurement is limited to bulky, energy-consuming devices, which prohibits many modern, portable applications. Here,…

A high-granularity telescope system with a large sensitive area and low material budget has been developed for high-energy heavy ion beam tests. The telescope consists of nine layers of silicon microstrip detectors (SSDs), whose performance…

Emission from blazar jets in the ultraviolet, optical, and infrared is polarized. If these low-energy photons were inverse-Compton scattered, the upscattered high-energy photons retain a fraction of the polarization. Current and future…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-03 Nachiketa Chakraborty , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Brian Fields

A photon-counting silicon strip detector with two energy thresholds was investigated for spectral X-ray imaging in a mammography system. Preliminary studies already indicate clinical benefit of the detector, and the purpose of the present…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-21 Erik Fredenberg , Mats Lundqvist , Bjorn Cederstrom , Magnus Aslund , Mats Danielsson

Histopathology, the study and diagnosis of disease through analysis of tissue samples, is an indispensable part of modern medicine. However, the practice is time consuming and labor intensive, compelling efforts to improve the process and…

The measurement of cosmic rays at energies exceeding 100 TeV per nucleon is crucial for enhancing the understanding of high-energy particle propagation and acceleration models in the Galaxy. HERD is a space-borne calorimetric experiment…

X-ray polarimetry has the potential to make key-contributions to our understanding of galactic compact objects like binary black hole systems and neutron stars, and extragalactic objects like active galactic nuclei, blazars, and Gamma Ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Henric Krawczynski

Well over 700 exoplanets have been detected to date. Only a handful of these have been observed directly. Direct observation is extremely challenging due to the small separation and very large contrast involved. Imaging polarimetry offers a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Rodenhuis , H. Canovas , S. V. Jeffers , M. de Juan Ovelar , L. Homs , M. Min , C. U. Keller

An electron-positron linear collider in the energy range between 500 and 1000 GeV is of crucial importance to precisely test the Standard Model and to explore the physics beyond it. The physics program is complementary to that of the Large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 R. -D. Heuer

A light emitting diode (LED) pulser has been developed that can be used for tests or calibration of timing and amplitude sensitivity of particle physics detectors. A comparative study is performed on the components and pulser output…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Grummer , M. R. Hoeferkamp , S. Seidel

In the Energy Frontier we suggest developing high rate (100 MHz) finely segmented forward calorimetry preradiators with time resolution <50 ps which will survive the first 1-2 Lint of incident high radiation doses, protecting forward…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-21 David R Winn , Yasar Onel

% context heading (optional) {With the development of new polarimeters for large telescopes, the spectro-polarimetric study of astrophysical bodies is becoming feasible and, indeed, more frequent. In particular, this is permitting the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Socas-Navarro , A. Asensio Ramos , R. Manso Sainz

The detection of photons above 10 keV through MeV and GeV energies is challenging due to the penetrating nature of the radiation, which can require large detector volumes, resulting in correspondingly high background. In this energy range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-21 David M. Smith

The light emission from a scanning tunneling microscope operated on a Ag(111) surface at 6 K is analyzed from low conductances to values approaching the conductance quantum. Optical spectra recorded at a sample voltages V reveal emission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Peter-Jan Peters , Fei Xu , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Gianluca Rastelli , Wolfgang Belzig , Richard Berndt

All commercial electron spin polarimeters work in single channel mode, which is the bottleneck of researches by spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. By adopting the time inversion antisymmetry of magnetic field, we developed a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-12 Tan Shi , Fuhao Ji , Mao Ye , Weishi Wan , Shan Qiao

Plasmonic metasurfaces enable simultaneous control of the phase, momentum, amplitude and polarisation of light and hence promise great utility in realisation of compact photonic devices. In this paper, we demonstrate a novel chip-scale…

In order to fully exploit the physics potential of the ILC, it will be necessary to measure (and control) beam parameters to a permille level precision. In case of the beam polarisation, this can only be achieved with dedicated high energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-19 Christoph Bartels , Christian Helebrant , Daniela Käfer , Jenny List

This paper presents the results of the proton irradiation of silicon photomulipliers (SiPMs) by mono-energetic 170 MeV protons with fluence up to 4.6$\times$10$^{9}$ particles/cm$^2$. In our work, three types of silicon photodetectors from…

Proposed close-encounter solar probes (Vulcan and Solar Probe) are planned to have highly eccentric orbits, with a perihelion of about $4R_S$ and an inclination close to $90^\circ$ out of the plane of the ecliptic. We show this could allow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Alan Kostelecký , Michael Martin Nieto