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Detailed understanding of the ionization process in noble liquid detectors is important for their use in applications such as the search for dark matter and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. The response of noble liquid…

Graphene's linear bandstructure and two-dimensional density of states provide an implicit advantage for sensing charge. Here, these advantages are leveraged in a deeply depleted graphene-oxide-semiconductor (D2GOS) junction detector…

Noble element detectors using argon or xenon as the detection medium are widely used in the searches for rare neutrino and dark matter interactions. Xenon doping in liquid argon can preserve attractive properties of an argon target while…

We have measured the energy dependence of the liquid xenon (LXe) scintillation yield of electrons with energy between 2.1 and 120.2keV, using the Compton coincidence technique. A LXe scintillation detector with a very high light detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 E. Aprile , R. Budnik , B. Choi , H. A. Contreras , K. -L. Giboni , L. W. Goetzke , J. E. Koglin , R. F. Lang , K. E. Lim , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , R. Persiani , G. Plante , A. Rizzo

We measure the liquid argon scintillation response to electronic recoils in the energy range of $2.82$ to $1274.6~{\rm keV}$ at null electric field. The single-phase detector with a large optical coverage used in this measurement yields…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-25 M. Kimura , K. Aoyama , M. Tanaka , K. Yorita

LXeGRIT is a balloon-borne Compton telescope based on a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) for imaging cosmic \g-rays in the energy band of 0.2-20 MeV. The detector, with 400 cm$^2$ area and 7 cm drift gap, is filled with high…

The hyperspectral X-ray imaging has been long sought in various fields from material analysis to medical diagnosis. Here we propose a new semiconductor detector structure to realize energy-resolved imaging at potentially low cost. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-26 Tengfei Yan , Chunlei Yang , Xiaodong Cui

The recent deep X-ray surveys at both soft (0.5--2 keV) and hard (2--10 keV) energies have greatly extended our knowledge of the X-ray source density and spectral shapes at relatively faint fluxes adding further evidence on the fact that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Comastri

We present the results of the operation of an array of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) for the readout of an electroluminescence detector. The detector contains 24 APDs with a pitch of 15 mm between them allowing energy and position…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-30 B. Bourguille , A. Garcia Soto , I. Gil-Botella , T. Lux , C. Palomares , F. Sanchez , R. Santorelli

As the main detector of the GECAM satellite, the calibration of the energy response and detection efficiency of the GRD detector is the main content of the ground-based calibration. The calibration goal requires the calibrated energy points…

An improved method of energy calibration of position-sensitive silicon detector is presented. Instead of the parabolic function used in traditional method, a new function describing the relation of position and energy is introduced and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Mingdao Sun , Tianheng Huang , Zhong Liu , Bing Ding , Huabin Yang , Zhiyuan Zhang , Jianguo Wang , Long Ma , Lin Yu , Yongsheng Wang , Zaiguo Gan , Xiaohong Zhou

The precise reconstruction of Compton-scatter events is paramount for an imaging medium-energy gamma-ray telescope. The proposed AMEGO-X is enabled by a silicon tracker utilizing AstroPix chips - a pixelated silicon HVCMOS sensor novel for…

The results of a beam test performed at the KEK PS in June 2005 are presented. Drift properties of an argon-isobutane mixture have been accurately measured and compared with predictions at magnetic fields between 0 and 1 Tesla. The r.m.s.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-04-17 D. C. Arogancia

Dependence of the secondary electron yield (SEY) from the primary beam incident energy and the coverage has been measured for neon, argon, krypton and xenon condensed on a target at 4.2K. The beam energy ranged between 100 eV and 3 keV, the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-02-12 Y. Bozhko , J. Barnard , N. Hilleret

The design, construction and performance characteristics of a simple axial-field ionization chamber suitable for identifying ions in a radioactive beam are presented. Optimized for use with low-energy radioactive beams (< 5 MeV/A) the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-12 J. Vadas , Varinderjit Singh , G. Visser , A. Alexander , S. Hudan , J. Huston , B. B. Wiggins , A. Chbihi , M. Famiano , M. M. Bischak , R. T. deSouza

In this paper (Paper II) we complete our discussion on the results of a comprehensive GEANT simulation of the scientific performance of the AGILE Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID), operating in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy range in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Veronica Cocco , Francesco Longo , Marco Tavani

A module of the ATLAS electromagnetic barrel liquid argon calorimeter was exposed to the CERN electron test-beam at the H8 beam line upgraded for precision momentum measurement. The available energies of the electron beam ranged from 10 to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Aharrouche , ATLAS Electromagnetic Barrel Calorimeter Collaboration

We design a GeV gamma ray detector based on an electron-positron pair measurement by using the BESS-polar magnet and study it with the GEANT4 simulation code. We consider an additional counter to select an electron-positron pair for which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-07 S. Osone

In this study we report the results of a systematic study of the gain, rate and the position resolution limits of various micropattern gaseous detectors. It was found that at low rates (<1 Hz/mm^2) each detector has it own gain limit, which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Peskov , P. Fonte

We examine the accretion properties in a sample of 42 hard (3-60keV) X-ray selected nearby broad-line AGNs. The energy range in the sample is harder than that usually used in the similar previous studies. These AGNs are mainly complied from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-19 J. Wang , Y. F. Mao , J. Y. Wei