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Performance of the ReD TPC, a novel double-phase LAr detector with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout

A double-phase argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC), with an active mass of 185 g, has been designed and constructed for the Recoil Directionality (ReD) experiment. The aim of the ReD project is to investigate the directional sensitivity of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-19 P. Agnes , S. Albergo , I. Albuquerque , M. Arba , M. Ave , A. Boiano , W. M. Bonivento , B. Bottino , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , A. Caminata , N. Canci , G. Cappello , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , S. Castellano , S. Catalanotti , V. Cataudella , R. Cereseto , R. Cesarano , C. Cicalò , G. Covone , A. de Candia , G. De Filippis , G. De Rosa , S. Davini , C. Dionisi , G. Dolganov , G. Fiorillo , D. Franco , G. K. Giovanetti , C. Galbiati , M. Gulino , V. Ippolito , N. Kemmerich , I. Kochanek , G. Korga , M. Kuss , M. La Commara , L. La Delfa , M. Leyton , X. Li , M. Lissia , S. M. Mari , C. J. Martoff , V. Masone , G. Matteucci , P. Musico , V. Oleynikov , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , A. Razeto , M. Rescigno , J. Rode , N. Rossi , D. Sablone , S. Sanfilippo , E. Scapparone , A. Sosa , Y. Suvorov , G. Testera , A. Tricomi , M. Tuveri , M. Wada , H. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale

New read-out electronics for ICARUS-T600 liquid Argon TPC. Description, simulation and tests of the new front-end and ADC system

The ICARUS T600, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) detector mainly devoted to neutrino physics, underwent a major overhauling at CERN in 2016-2017, which included also a new design of the read-out electronics, in view of its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Bagby , B. Baibussinov , V. Bellini , M. Bonesini , A. Braggiotti , L. Castellani , S. Centro , T. Cervi , A. G. Cocco , F. Fabris , A. Falcone , C. Farnese , A. Fava , F. Fichera , D. Franciotti , G. Galet , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , R. Guida , W. Ketchum , S. Marchini , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , G. Menon , C. Montanari , M. Nessi , M. Nicoletto , R. Pedrotta , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , G. Rampazzo , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , A. Scaramelli , F. Sergiampietri , M. Spanu , M. Torti , F. Tortorici , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , A. Zani , P. G. Zatti

A High Pressure Time Projection Chamber with Optical Readout

Measurements of proton-nucleus scattering and high resolution neutrino-nucleus interaction imaging are key to reduce neutrino oscillation systematic uncertainties in future experiments. A High Pressure Time Projection Chamber (HPTPC)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-03 Alexander Deisting , Abigail Victoria Waldron , Edward Atkin , Gary Barker , Anastasia Basharina-Freshville , Christopher Betancourt , Steven Boyd , Dominic Brailsford , Zachary Chen-Wishart , Linda Cremonesi , Adriana Dias , Patrick Dunne , Jennifer Haigh , Philip Hamacher-Baumann , Sebastian Jones , Asher Kaboth , Alexander Korzenev , William Ma , Philippe Mermod , Maria Mironova , Jocelyn Monroe , Ryan Nichol , Toby Nonnenmacher , Jaroslaw Nowak , William Parker , Harrison Ritchie-Yates , Stefan Roth , Ruben Saakyan , Nicola Serra , Yuri Shitov , Jochen Steinmann , Adam Tarrant , Melissa Uchida , Sammy Valder , Mark Ward , Morgan Wascko

On the Electric Breakdown in Liquid Argon at Centimeter Scale

We present a study on the dependence of electric breakdown discharge properties on electrode geometry and the breakdown field in liquid argon near its boiling point. The measurements were performed with a spherical cathode and a planar…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-17 M. Auger , A. Blatter , A. Ereditato , D. Goeldi , S. Janos , I. Kreslo , M. Luethi , C. Rudolf von Rohr , T. Strauss , M. S. Weber

Calorimetry for low-energy electrons using charge and light in liquid argon

Precise calorimetric reconstruction of 5-50 MeV electrons in liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) will enable the study of astrophysical neutrinos in DUNE and could enhance the physics reach of oscillation analyses. Liquid argon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-23 W. Foreman , R. Acciarri , J. A. Asaadi , W. Badgett , F. d. M. Blaszczyk , R. Bouabid , C. Bromberg , R. Carey , F. Cavanna , J. I. Cevallos Aleman , A. Chatterjee , J. Evans , A. Falcone , W. Flanagan , B. T. Fleming , D. Garcia-Gomez , B. Gelli , T. Ghosh , R. A. Gomes , E. Gramellini , R. Gran , P. Hamilton , C. Hill , J. Ho , J. Hugon , E. Iwai , E. Kearns , E. Kemp , T. Kobilarcik , M. Kordosky , P. Kryczynski , K. Lang , R. Linehan , A. A. B. Machado , T. Maruyama , W. Metcalf , C. A. Moura , R. Nichol , M. Nunes , I. Nutini , A. Olivier , O. Palamara , J. Paley , L. Paulucci , G. Pulliam , J. L. Raaf , B. Rebel , O. Rodrigues , L. Mendes Santos , D. W. Schmitz , E. Segreto , D. Smith , M. Soderberg , F. Spagliardi , J. M. St. John , M. Stancari , A. M. Szelc , M. Tzanov , D. Walker , Z. Williams , T. Yang , J. Yu , S. Zhang

The Fast Read-out System for the MAPMTs of COMPASS RICH-1

A fast readout system for the upgrade of the COMPASS RICH detector has been developed and successfully used for data taking in 2006 and 2007. The new readout system for the multi-anode PMTs in the central part of the photon detector of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Schill

Demonstration and performance of an online data selection algorithm for liquid argon time projection chambers using MicroBooNE

The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that produces three-dimensional images of particle interactions using ionization charge collected by anode wire plane arrays and scintillation light collected by a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-12 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , B. Behera , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , V. Bhelande , A. Binau , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , C. Fang , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , O. Hen , A. Hergenhan , M. Harrison , S. Hawkins , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hussain , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , A. Johnson , R. A. Johnson , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , A. Kelly , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , K. Kumar , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , L. Liu , S. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , T. Mahmud , N. Majeed , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , F. Martinez Lopez , M. G. Manuel Alves , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , B. McConnell , L. Mellet , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. A. Hernandez Morquecho , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , L. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , L. Silva , E. L. Snider , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , L. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang , Y. Zhang

First results from a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber in a Magnetic Field

A small liquid argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) was operated for the first time in a magnetic field of 0.55 Tesla. The imaging properties of the detector were not affected by the magnetic field. In a test run with cosmic rays a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Badertscher , M. Laffranchi , A. Meregaglia , A. Mueller , A. Rubbia

GAMPix: a novel fine-grained, low-noise and ultra-low power pixelated charge readout for TPCs

We report on the development of a novel pixel charge readout system, Grid Activated Multi-scale pixel readout (GAMPix), which is under development for use in the GammaTPC gamma ray instrument concept. GammaTPC is being developed to optimize…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-05 Tom Shutt , Bahrudin Trbalic , Aldo Pena-Perez , Steffen Luitz , Mark Convery , Angelo Dragone , Lorenzo Rota , Dietrich R. Freytag , Dionisio Doering , Filippo Mele , Miriam Moore , Hiro Tanaka , Yun-Tse Tsai

Characterization of UV optical components for photon detector calibration in liquid argon TPCs

Large liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) require stable and well-characterized delivery of ultraviolet (UV) light for in situ calibration of photosensors at cryogenic temperatures. This article reports bench-top and cryogenic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-02 B. Behera , M. Bilal Azam , Z. Djurcic , A. Heindel , I. Helgeson , T. Hyden , D. Leon Silverio , S. Magill , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , M. Oberling , K. Pickner , A. Rafique , J. Rodríguez Rondon , D. Torres Muñoz , C. Winkers , L. Xia

Study of the d$E$/d$x$ resolution of a GEM Readout Chamber prototype for the upgrade of the ALICE TPC

The ALICE Collaboration is planning a major upgrade of its central barrel detectors to be able to cope with the increased LHC luminosity beyond 2020. For the TPC, this implies a replacement of the currently used gated MWPCs (Multi-Wire…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Andreas Mathis

Performance of the TPC with Micro Pixel Chamber Readout: micro-TPC

Micro-TPC, a time projection chamber(TPC) with micro pixel chamber($\mu$-PIC) readout was developed for the detection of the three-dimensional fine(sub-m illimeter) tracks of charged particles. We developed a two-dimensional position…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Kentaro Miuchi , Hidetoshi Kubo , Tsutomu Nagayoshi , Atsuhiko Ochi , Reiko Orito , Atsushi Takada , Toru Tanimori , Masaru Ueno

A Prototype of Wireless Power and Data Acquisition System for Large Detectors

A new prototype wireless data acquisition system has been developed with the intended application to read-out instrumentation systems having a large number of channels. In addition such system could be deployed in smaller detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-07 P. De Lurgio , Z. Djurcic , G. Drake , R. Hashemian , A. Kreps , M. Oberling , T. Pearson , H. Sahoo

Measuring the Neutrino Event Time in Liquid Argon by a Post-Reconstruction One-parameter Fit

We propose a relatively simple method to measure the event time in liquid Argon (LAr) TPC-based neutrino detectors that takes advantage of the topological reconstruction of each event from the TPC data prior to performing a one-parameter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-02 Evan Angelico , Andrey Elagin , Henry J. Frisch , Matthew Wetstein

First Operation of a Resistive Shell Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber -- A new Approach to Electric-Field Shaping

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-15 Roman Berner , Yifan Chen , Antonio Ereditato , Patrick P. Koller , Igor Kreslo , David Lorca , Thomas Mettler , Francesco Piastra , James R. Sinclair , Michael S. Weber , Ting Miao

Neutrino Event Selection in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber using Wire-Cell 3-D Imaging, Clustering, and Charge-Light Matching

An accurate and efficient event reconstruction is required to realize the full scientific capability of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). The current and future neutrino experiments that rely on massive LArTPCs create a need…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-28 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , V. Basque , L. Bathe-Peters , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , R. Diurba , L. Domine , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. J. Evans , G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , E. Hall , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. C. Huang , R. Itay , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , N. Kamp , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , R. LaZur , I. Lepetic , K. Li , Y. Li , B. R. Littlejohn , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , S. Marcocci , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , J. Martin-Albo , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , R. K. Neely , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , A. Paudel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , I. Ponce-Pinto , D. Porzio , S. Prince , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , H. E. Rogers , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , B. Russell , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , W. Wu , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Performance of cryogenic charge readout electronics with the ARGONTUBE LAr TPC

ARGONTUBE is a liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) with an electron drift length of up to 5 m equipped with cryogenic charge-sensitive preamplifiers. In this work, we present results on its performance including a comparison of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Ereditato , D. Goeldi , S. Janos , I. Kreslo , M. Luethi , C. Rudolf von Rohr , M. Schenk , T. Strauss , M. S. Weber , M. Zeller

A high rate and high timing photoelectric detector prototype with RPC structure

To meet the need for a high counting rate and high time resolution in future high-energy physics experiments, a prototype of a gas photodetector with an RPC structure was developed. Garfield++ simulated the detector's performance, and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-30 Yiding Zhao , D. Hu , M. Shao , Y. Zhou , S. Lv , Xiangqi Tian , Anqi Wang , Xueshen Lin , Hao Pang , Y. Suna

Initial Assessment of Second Generation of Large-Area Picosecond Photodetectors with Multi-Channel Systems-on-a-Chip Readout

We first briefly describe the history and motivation behind Cherenkov and scintillation light detection. We then discuss the instrumentation needed to detect these photons as it applies to both photodetectors and readout electronics. One of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-01 V. A. Li , O. A. Akindele , M. Bondin , S. R. Durham , J. A. Foot , M. J. Ford , S. -W. Stradleigh

Panda: Self-distillation of Reusable Sensor-level Representations for High Energy Physics

Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) provide dense, high-fidelity 3D measurements of particle interactions and underpin current and future neutrino and rare-event experiments. Physics reconstruction typically relies on complex…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-02 Samuel Young , Kazuhiro Terao