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The paper describes a time-resolved photoemission (TRPES) apparatus equipped with a Yb-doped fiber laser system delivering 1.2-eV pump and 5.9-eV probe pulses at the repetition rate of 95 MHz. Time and energy resolutions are 11.3 meV and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-13 Y. Ishida , T. Otsu , A. Ozawa , K. Yaji , S. Tani , S. Shin , Y. Kobayashi

In preparation for HL-LHC operation a number of new detector systems are being constructed with timing precision on physics objects of <50 picoseconds. These time stamps will reduce the level of pileup induced backgrounds in this LHC phase…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-15 Sebastian White

Modeling the timing performance of light-based radiation detectors accurately is essential for optimizing time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET). We present an analytic framework that combines existing models to predict the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-08 Nicolaus Kratochwil , Emilie Roncali , Gerard Arino-Estrada

To meet the stringent time calibration requirements for the Belle II experiment upgrade, particularly for its large-size KL and Muon Detector comprising tens of thousands of scintillator channels with time resolutions better than 100 ps, we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-23 Ziyu Liu , Xiyang Wang , Shiming Zou , Xiaolong Wang , Junhao Yin , Minggang Zhao

The resolution and the linearity of time measurements made with the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter are studied with samples of data from test beam electrons, cosmic rays, and beam-produced muons. The resulting time resolution measured by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 CMS Collaboration

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing an extensive Phase II upgrade program to prepare for the challenging conditions of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). A new timing layer is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-02 Irene Dutta

Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) such as Micromegas or GEM are used in particle physics experiments for their capabilities in particle tracking at high rates. Their excellent position resolutions are well known but their energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Zerguerras , B. Genolini , V. Lepeltier , J. Peyre , J. Pouthas , P. Rosier

New Micromegas (Micro-mesh gaseous detectors) are being developed in view of the future physics projects planned by the COMPASS collaboration at CERN. Several major upgrades compared to present detectors are being studied: detectors…

In this White Paper for the 2021 Snowmass process, we discuss aspects of precision timing within electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter systems for high-energy physics collider experiments. Areas of applications include particle…

Micro-channel plate (MCP)-based photodetectors are capable of picosecond level time resolution and sub-mm level position resolution, which makes them a perfect candidate for the next generation large area photodetectors. The large-area…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-27 Jingbo Wang , Karen Byrum , Marcel Demarteau , Jeffrey Elam , Anil Mane , Edward May , Robert Wagner , Dean Walters , Junqi Xie , Lei Xia , Huyue Zhao

The high-rate detection of entangled photons is essential for advancing photonic quantum information processing. Although several experimental demonstrations have been reported, the achievable coincidence rates have so far remained limited.…

The performance of several trigger counters based on plastic scintillators with silicon photomultiplier readout is investigated with cosmic rays. Efficiency and time resolution are measured using digital waveform analysis. The obtained…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-21 Marco Alberto Ayala-Torres , Luis Manuel Montaño Zetina , Marcos Fontaine Sánchez

The barrel section of the novel MIP Timing Detector (MTD) will be constructed as part of the upgrade of the CMS experiment to provide a time resolution for single charged tracks in the range of $30-60$ ps using LYSO:Ce crystal arrays read…

We present the first sub-microsecond transformer implementation on an FPGA achieving competitive performance for state-of-the-art high-energy physics benchmarks. Transformers have shown exceptional performance on multiple tasks in modern…

The paper describes a time- and angle-resolved photoemission apparatus consisting of a hemispherical analyzer and a pulsed laser source. We demonstrate 1.48-eV pump and 5.90-eV probe measurements at the >10.5-meV and >240-fs resolutions by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-16 Y. Ishida , T. Togashi , K. Yamamoto , M. Tanaka , T. Kiss , T. Otsu , Y. Kobayashi , S. Shin

In the readout electronics of the Water Cerenkov Detector Array (WCDA) in the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), both high-resolution charge and time measurement are required over a dynamic range from 1 photoelectron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-09 Cong Ma , Lei Zhao , Ruoshi Dong , Zouyi Jiang , Shaoping Chu , Xingshun Gao , Shubin Liu , Qi An

On May 2008 the ANTARES collaboration completed the installation of a neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. This detector consists of a tridimensional array of almost 900 photomultipliers (PMTs) distributed in 12 lines. These PMTs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-17 Juan Pablo Gomez-Gonzalez

We introduce the first end-to-end learning-based solution to near-field Photometric Stereo (PS), where the light sources are close to the object of interest. This setup is especially useful for reconstructing large immobile objects. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Daniel Lichy , Soumyadip Sengupta , David W. Jacobs

The LHCb experiment is one of the four large detectors operating at the LHC at CERN and it is mainly devoted to CP violation measurements and to the search for new physics in rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons. The data from the two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 L. Cassina

The present generation of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) are radiation hard detectors, capable of detecting efficiently particle rates of several MHz/cm$^2$ , while exhibiting good spatial resolution ($\leq$ 50 $\mu$m) and modest…