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A front-end readout electronics system has been developed for silicon strip detectors. The system uses an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) ATHED to realize multi-channel E&T measurement. The slow control of ASIC chips is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-13 Yi Qian , Hong Su , Jie Kong , Cheng-Fu Dong , Xiao-Li Ma , Xiao-Gang Li

The KM2A(one kilometer square extensive air shower array) is the largest detector array in the LHAA- SO(Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory) project. The KM2A consists of 5635 EDs(Electromagnetic particle Detectors) and 1221 MDs(Muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-23 Xiang Liu , Jingfan Chang , Zheng Wang , Lei Fan

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is planned to be built at Daocheng, Sichuan Province, China. The water Cherenkov detector array (WCDA), with an area of 78,000 m2 and capacity of 350,000 tons of purified water, is one…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Huicai Li , Zhiguo Yao , Mingjun Chen , Chunxu Yu , Min Zha , Hanrong Wu , Bo Gao , Xiaojie Wang , Jinyan Liu , Wenying Liao , Dezhi Huang

The analog front-end for the Low Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD) based precision timing application in the CMS Endcap Timing Layer (ETL) has been prototyped in a 65 nm CMOS mini-ASIC named ETROC0. Serving as the very first prototype of ETL…

The surface detector (SD) array of the Pierre Auger Observatory containing at present 1680 water Cherenkov detectors spread over an area of 3000 km^2 started to operate since 2004. The currently used Front-End Boards are equipped with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-10 Zbigniew Szadkowski

This paper presents a circuit-algorithm co-design framework for learnable analog front-end (AFE) in audio signal classification. Designing AFE and backend classifiers separately is a common practice but non-ideal, as shown in this paper.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Jinhai Hu , Zhongyi Zhang , Cong Sheng Leow , Wang Ling Goh , Yuan Gao

Muon imaging technology is an innovative imaging technique that can be applied in volcano imaging, heavy nuclear material detection, and archaeological research. The Micromegas detector is a promising choice for muon imaging due to its high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-28 Ting Wang , Yu Wang , Zhihang Yao , Yulin Liu , Changqing Feng , Zhiyong Zhang , Shubin Liu

For the High-Luminosity phase of LHC, the ATLAS experiment is proposing the addition of a High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) in the forward region to mitigate the effects of the increased pile-up. The chosen detection technology is Low…

A Cherenkov detector based on an array of five lead fluoride ($\beta$-PbF$_2$) crystals of size 30 mm$\times$30 mm$\times$160 mm read out by reverse-type avalanche photodiodes (APD's) of active area 10 mm$\times$10 mm was used to measure…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-07 Y. Murakami , H. Aghai-Khozani , M. Hori

This paper discusses a detailed design approach to determine the optimal input impedance (Rin) and bandwidth (BW) for current preamplifiers in Front End Electronics (FEE) of high-accuracy time measurement systems used in particle detection.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-29 Abderrahmane Ghimouz , Fatah Rarbi , Olivier Rossetto

The Time Projection Chamber of the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider features highly integrated on-detector read-out electronics. It is following the general trend of high energy physics experiments by placing the front-end…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Mager , L. Musa , A. Rehman , A. Szczepankiewicz

The Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is being built at Haizi mountain, Sichuan, China at an altitude of 4410 m. One of its main goals is to survey the northern sky for very-high-energy (above 100 GeV) gamma ray sources…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-29 Kun Jiang , Zebo Tang , Xin Li , Cheng Li

Cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe, CZT) radiation detectors are suitable for a variety of applications, due to their high spatial resolution and spectroscopic energy performance at room temperature. However, state-of-the-art detector systems…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-13 P. Födisch , M. Berthel , B. Lange , T. Kirschke , W. Enghardt , P. Kaever

Wake word (WW) spotting is challenging in far-field due to the complexities and variations in acoustic conditions and the environmental interference in signal transmission. A suite of carefully designed and optimized audio front-end (AFE)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Yixin Gao , Noah D. Stein , Chieh-Chi Kao , Yunliang Cai , Ming Sun , Tao Zhang , Shiv Vitaladevuni

A nanosecond time-resolved APD detector system is implemented for Nuclear Resonance Scattering (NRS) experiments in High Energy Photon Source-Test Facility (HEPS-TF) project of China. The detector system consists of three parts: the APD…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-20 Zhen-jie Li , Yi-chao Ma , Qiu-ju Li , Peng Liu , Jin-fan Chang , Yang-fan Zhou

The performance of an electroluminescence (EL) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with a multi avalanche photodiode (APD) readout was studied in pure xenon at 3.8 bar. Intercalibration and reconstruction methods were developed and applied to the…

The performance of prototypes for the ALICE electromagnetic sampling calorimeter has been studied in test beam measurements at FNAL and CERN. A $4\times4$ array of final design modules showed an energy resolution of about 11%…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 The ALICE EMCal group

In this paper we describe the performance of a prototype of the High Angle Time Projection Chambers (HA-TPCs) that are being produced for the Near Detector (ND280) upgrade of the T2K experiment. The two HA-TPCs of ND280 will be instrumented…

A large Time Projection Chamber is the main device for tracking and charged-particle identification in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. After the second long shutdown in 2019/20, the LHC will deliver Pb beams colliding at an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-16 M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , S. Aiola , J. Alme , T. Alt , W. Amend , A. Andronic , V. Anguelov , H. Appelshäuser , M. Arslandok , R. Averbeck , M. Ball , G. G. Barnaföldi , E. Bartsch , R. Bellwied , G. Bencedi , M. Berger , N. Bialas , P. Bialas , L. Bianchi , S. Biswas , L. Boldizsár , L. Bratrud , P. Braun-Munzinger , M. Bregant , C. L. Britton , E. J. Brucken , H. Caines , A. J. Castro , S. Chattopadhyay , P. Christiansen , L. G. Clonts , T. M. Cormier , S. Das , S. Dash , A. Deisting , S. Dittrich , A. K. Dubey , R. Ehlers , M. Engel , F. Erhardt , N. B. Ezell , L. Fabbietti , U. Frankenfeld , J. J. Gaardhøje , C. Garabatos , P. Gasik , Á. Gera , P. Ghosh , S. K. Ghosh , P. Glässel , O. Grachov , A. Grein , T. Gunji , H. Hamagaki , G. Hamar , J. W. Harris , P. Hauer , J. Hehner , E. Hellbär , H. Helstrup , T. E. Hilden , B. Hohlweger , M. Ivanov , M. Jung , D. Just , E. Kangasaho , R. Keidel , B. Ketzer , S. A. Khan , S. Kirsch , T. Klemenz , S. Klewin , A. G. Knospe , M. Kowalski , L. Kumar , R. Lang , R. Langoy , L. Lautner , F. Liebske , J. Lien , C. Lippmann , H. M. Ljunggren , W. J. Llope , S. Mahmood , T. Mahmoud , R. Majka , P. Malzacher , A. Marín , C. Markert , S. Masciocchi , A. Mathis , A. Matyja , M. Meres , D. L. Mihaylov , D. Miskowiec , J. Mitra , T. Mittelstaedt , T. Morhardt , J. Mulligan , R. H. Munzer , K. Münning , M. G. Munhoz , S. Muhuri , H. Murakami , B. K. Nandi , H. Natal da Luz , C. Nattrass , T. K. Nayak , R. A. Negrao De Oliveira , M. Nicassio , B. S. Nielsen , L. Oláh , A. Oskarsson , J. Otwinowski , K. Oyama , G. Paić , R. N. Patra , V. Peskov , M. Pikna , L. Pinsky , M. Planinic , M. G. Poghosyan , N. Poljak , F. Pompei , S. K. Prasad , C. A. Pruneau , J. Putschke , S. Raha , J. Rak , J. Rasson , V. Ratza , K. F. Read , A. Rehman , R. Renfordt , T. Richert , K. Røed , D. Röhrich , T. Rudzki , R. Sahoo , S. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , J. Saini , B. Schaefer , J. Schambach , S. Scheid , C. Schmidt , H. R. Schmidt , N. V Schmidt , H. Schulte , K. Schweda , I. Selyuzhenkov , N. Sharma , D. Silvermyr , R. N. Singaraju , B. Sitar , N. Smirnov , S. P. Sorensen , F. Sozzi , J. Stachel , E. Stenlund , P. Strmen , I. Szarka , G. Tambave , K. Terasaki , A. Timmins , K. Ullaland , A. Utrobicic , D. Varga , R. Varma , A. Velure , V. Vislavicius , S. Voloshin , B. Voss , D. Vranic , J. Wiechula , S. Winkler , J. Wikne , B. Windelband , C. Zhao

The PICOSEC detection concept consists in a "two-stage" Micromegas detector coupled to a Cherenkov radiator and equipped with a photocathode. A proof of concept has already been tested: a single-photoelectron response of 76 ps has been…