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A new high-precision detector for studying neutrons from beta-delayed neutron emission and direct reaction studies is proposed. The Neutron dEtector with Xn Tracking (NEXT) array is designed to maintain high intrinsic neutron detection…

This report summarizes white papers on micro-pattern gaseous detectors (MPGDs) that were submitted to the Instrumentation Frontier Topical Group IF05, as part of the Snowmass 2021 decadal survey of particle physics.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-19 B. Surrow , M. Titov , S. Vahsen , A. Bellerive , K. Black , A. Colaleo , K. Dehmelt , K. Gnanvo , P. Lewis , D. Loomba , C. O'Hare , M. Posik , A. White

The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) is to be installed at the Nuclotron Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). Its main goal is to study the phase diagram of the strongly interacting matter produced in…

A new neutron detector based on Micromegas technology has been developed for the measurement of the simulated neutron spectrum in the ADS project. After the presentation of simulated neutron spectra obtained in the interaction of 140 MeV…

The time-of-flight Highly Granular Neutron Detector (HGND) with a multilayer longitudinal structure of interleaved absorber and scintillator plates, high transverse granularity and a time resolution of about 150 ps is currently under…

A sample of two proton and no pion events selected in the ArgoNeuT neutrino scattering experiment on liquid argon target [Phys. Rev. D90 (2014) 012008] is analyzed with NuWro Monte Carlo event generator. An attempt is made to estimate how…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-23 Kajetan Niewczas , Jan T. Sobczyk

A new Highly-Granular time-of-flight Neutron Detector (HGND) is being developed and constructed to measure azimuthal neutron flow and neutron yields in nucleus-nucleus interactions in heavy-ion collisions with energies up to 4A GeV in the…

The current focus of the CERN program is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), however, CERN is engaged in long baseline neutrino physics with the CNGS project and supports T2K as recognized CERN RE13, and for good reasons: a number of observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 A. Rubbia

The Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors offer excellent spatial and temporal resolution in harsh radiation environments of high-luminosity colliders. In this work, an attempt has been made to establish an algorithm for estimating the time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-11 Purba Bhattacharya , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Sudeb Bhattacharya

In the context of the 2013 APS-DPF Snowmass summer study conducted by the U.S. HEP community, this white paper outlines a roadmap for further development of Micro-pattern Gas Detectors for tracking and muon detection in HEP experiments. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-06 M. Hohlmann , V. Polychronakos , A. White , J. Yu

Three types of high rate neutrino detectors for neutrino interaction physics at neutrino factories are discussed. High performance general-purpose detectors might collect event samples on the order of a billion events or more. This could…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce J. King

In view of a possible application as a charge-particle track readout for an Active-Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC), the operational properties and performances of a hybrid Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD) were investigated in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-23 Marco Cortesi , Wolfgang Mittig , Daniel Bazin , Saul Beceiro-Novo , John Yurkon , Rim Soussi Tanani , Michael Wolff , Andreas Stolz

In this work, we have tried to develop a detailed understanding of the physical processes occurring in those variants of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) that share micro hole and micro strip geometry, like GEM, MHSP and MSGC etc. Some…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-11 Purba Bhattacharya , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar , Sudeb Bhattacharya

The fast timing MPGD is a micro-pattern gaseous detector conceived for achieving sub-nanosecond time resolution while maintaining the ability to instrument large areas in high-rate environments; applications of such technology are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Antonello Pellecchia , Piet Verwilligen

Coherent scattering is a flavor-blind, high-rate, as yet undetected neutrino interaction predicted by the Standard Model. We propose to use a compact (kg-scale), two-phase (liquid-gas) argon ionization detector to measure coherent neutrino…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Hagmann , Adam Bernstein

Neutron scattering techniques offer a unique combination of structural and the dynamic information of atomic and molecular systems over a wide range of distances and times. The increasing complexity in science investigations driven by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-30 Giacomo Mauri

One of our two methods for fast-neutron imaging with spectrometric capability is presented here. It is a neutron-counting technique based on a hydrogenous neutron converter coupled to Gaseous Electron Multipliers (GEM). The principles of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Dangendorf , A. Breskin , R. Chechik , M. Goldberg , G. Laczko , I. Mor , M. Reginatto , D. Vartsky

We explore the use of microstructured semiconductor neutron detectors (MSNDs) to map the ratio between thermal neutrons and higher energy neutrons. The system consists of alternating layers of modular neutron detectors (MNDs), each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Alejandro Soto , Ryan G. Fronk , Kerry Neal , Bent Ehresmann , Steven L. Bellinger , Michael Shoffner , Douglas S. McGregor

The latest update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics stimulated the preparation of the European Detector Roadmap document in 2021 by the European Committee for Future Accelerators ECFA. This roadmap, defined during a bottom-up…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-22 Thomas Bergauer