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This paper will discuss a new method of signal read-out from photon detectors in ultra-large, underground liquid argon time projection chambers. In this design, the signal from the light collection system is coupled via capacitive plates to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-13 Z. Moss , M. Toups , L. Bugel , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad

The GammaTPC is an MeV-scale single-phase liquid argon time-projection-chamber gamma-ray telescope concept with a novel dual-scale pixel-based charge-readout system. It promises to enable a significant improvement in sensitivity to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 M. Buuck , A. Mishra , E. Charles , N. Di Lalla , O. Hitchcock , M. E. Monzani , N. Omodei , T. Shutt

LArGO (Liquid Argon Gamma-ray Observatory) consists of a new design for a $\gamma$-ray telescope, which exploits the idea of using a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC) as tracker-converter. Particle tracking in LAr-TPC can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-17 Giuseppe Andrea Caliandro , Biagio Rossi , Francesco Longo , Giuliana Fiorillo , Claudio Labanti , Federico Sanchez , Thorsten Lux

Massive underground detectors can be considered as sort of observatories for rare physics phenomena like astrophysical neutrino detection and nucleon decay searches. We briefly overview the past tracking calorimeters developed for nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rubbia

This document describes the early stage of the reconstruction chain that was developed for the ArgoNeuT and MicroBooNE experiments at Fermilab. These experiments study accelerator neutrino interactions that occur in a Liquid Argon Time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 Bruce Baller

We describe in these GLA2011 proceedings the software package LArSoft, a toolkit to perform simulation, analysis and reconstruction with the Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) within the US program of proposed detectors. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-01-09 Eric D. Church

In this paper we present results from a test of a small Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). This detector concept provides a 3D-tracking and calorimetric device capable of charge amplification,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-28 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

Light detection systems in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) require the detection of the 128 nm light produced during argon scintillation. Most detectors use Tetraphenyl Butadiene (TPB) to shift the wavelength of the light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 C. M. Ignarra

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology is commonly utilized in neutrino detector designs. It enables detailed reconstruction of neutrino events with high spatial precision and low energy threshold. Its field response (FR)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 S. Martynenko , F. Pietropaolo , B. Viren , X. Qian , H. Chen , S. Gao , W. Gu , J. Jo , S. Kettell , Y. Li , H. Liu , N. Nayak , B. Yu , H. Yu , C. Zhang , U. Kose , F. Resnati , S. Tufanli , F. Boran , F. Dolek

The amount and complexity of data recorded by high energy physics experiments are rapidly growing, and with these grow the difficulties in visualizing such data. To study the physics of neutrinos, a type of elementary particle, scientists…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-27 Corey Adams , Marco Del Tutto

We present a new technology for the shaping of the electric field in Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) using a carbon-loaded polyimide foil. This technology allows for the minimisation of passive material near the active volume of the TPC and…

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPC) are particle imaging detectors recording 2D or 3D images of trajectories of charged particles. Identifying points of interest in these images, namely the initial and terminal points of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-08-25 Laura Dominé , Pierre Côte de Soux , François Drielsma , Dae Heun Koh , Ran Itay , Qing Lin , Kazuhiro Terao , Ka Vang Tsang , Tracy L. Usher

When electrons with energies of $O(100)$ MeV pass through a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), they deposit energy in the form of electromagnetic showers. Methods to reconstruct the energy of these showers in LArTPCs often rely…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-23 Kiara Carloni , Nicholas W. Kamp , Austin Schneider , Janet M. Conrad

Object detection algorithms for Lidar data have seen numerous publications in recent years, reporting good results on dataset benchmarks oriented towards automotive requirements. Nevertheless, many of these are not deployable to embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Lukas Hahn , Frederik Hasecke , Anton Kummert

The second workshop to discuss the development of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) in the United States was held at Fermilab on July 8-9, 2014. The workshop was organized under the auspices of the Coordinating Panel for…

The liquid argon time projection chamber provides high resolution event images and excellent calorimetric resolution for studying neutrino physics and searching for beyond standard model physics. In this article, we review the main physics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-12 Tingjun Yang

Next-generation megawatt-scale neutrino beams open the way to studying neutrino-nucleus scattering using gaseous targets for the first time. This represents an opportunity to improve the knowledge of neutrino cross sections in the energy…

The paper proposes a novel approach for gray scale images segmentation. It is based on multiple features extraction from single feature per image pixel, namely its intensity value, using Echo state network. The newly extracted features -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Petia Koprinkova-Hristova

Grand Unification of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions into a single unified gauge group is an extremely appealing idea which has been vigorously pursued theoretically and experimentally for many years. The detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 A. Bueno , Z. Dai , Y. Ge , M. Laffranchi , A. J. Melgarejo , A. Meregaglia , S. Navas , A. Rubbia

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show strong promise for analyzing scientific data in many domains including particle imaging detectors such as a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). Yet the high sparsity of LArTPC data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-07-15 Laura Dominé , Kazuhiro Terao