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Surface detector arrays are designed to measure the spectrum and composition of high-energy cosmic rays by detecting the secondary particle flux of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) induced by the primary cosmic rays. Electromagnetic…

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Cognitive radio (CR) is a promising scheme to improve the spectrum utilization. Spectrum sensing (SS) is one of the main tasks of CR. Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) is used in CR to improve detection capability. Due to its simplicity…

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While neutrinos are often treated as a background for many dark matter experiments, these particles offer a new avenue for physics: the detection of core-collapse supernovae. Supernovae are extremely energetic, violent and complex events…

Bubble detectors are widely used to measure neutron flux from laser-driven sources employing a pitcher-catcher setup, due to their insensitivity to intense $\gamma$-ray backgrounds and strong electromagnetic pulses (EMP).\\ This paper…

Millimeter-wave radars are being increasingly integrated into commercial vehicles to support new advanced driver-assistance systems by enabling robust and high-performance object detection, localization, as well as recognition - a key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Xiangyu Gao , Guanbin Xing , Sumit Roy , Hui Liu

The ARIANNA detector aims to detect neutrinos with energies above \SI{e16}{eV} by instrumenting 0.5 Teratons of ice with a surface array of a thousand independent radio detector stations in Antarctica. The Antarctic ice is transparent to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Christian Glaser

In the field of neutron scattering science, a large variety of instruments require detectors for thermal and cold neutrons. Helium-3 has been one of the main actors in thermal and cold neutron detection for many years. Nowadays neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-21 Francesco Piscitelli , Giacomo Mauri , Alessio Laloni , Richard Hall-Wilton

Cosmic ray muons detected by deep underground and underwater detectors have served as an information source on the high-energy cosmic ray spectrum and hadronic interactions in air showers for almost a century. The theoretical interest in…

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Background: Single-crystal chemical vapor deposited (sCVD) diamond detectors offer a unique method to study cross sections of reactions on carbon since they can be used as active targets. Previous studies analyzing neutrons on carbon using…

Fission events from Special Nuclear Material (SNM), such as highly enriched uranium or plutonium, can produce simultaneous emission of multiple neutrons and high energy gamma-rays. The observation of time correlations between any of these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-12 M. Sweany , A. Bernstein , N. S. Bowden , S. Dazeley , G. Keefer , R. Svoboda , M. Tripathi

The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV $\gamma$ produced by neutron capture on hydrogen have been made using an Am-Be calibration source,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-15 The SNO+ Collaboration , : , M. R. Anderson , S. Andringa , M. Askins , D. J. Auty , N. Barros , F. Barão , R. Bayes , E. W. Beier , A. Bialek , S. D. Biller , E. Blucher , R. Bonventre , M. Boulay , E. Caden , E. J. Callaghan , J. Caravaca , D. Chauhan , M. Chen , O. Chkvorets , B. Cleveland , M. A. Cox , M. M. Depatie , J. Dittmer , F. Di Lodovico , A. D. Earle , E. Falk , N. Fatemighomi , V. Fischer , E. Fletcher , R. Ford , K. Frankiewicz , K. Gilje , D. Gooding , C. Grant , J. Grove , A. L. Hallin , D. Hallman , S. Hans , J. Hartnell , P. Harvey , W. J. Heintzelman , R. L. Helmer , D. Horne , B. Hreljac , J. Hu , A. S. M. Hussain , A. S. Inácio , C. J. Jillings , T. Kaptanoglu , P. Khaghani , J. R. Klein , R. Knapik , L. L. Kormos , B. Krar , C. Kraus , C. B. Krauss , T. Kroupova , I. Lam , B. J. Land , A. LaTorre , I. Lawson , L. Lebanowski , E. J. Leming , A. Li , J. Lidgard , B. Liggins , Y. H. Lin , Y. Liu , V. Lozza , M. Luo , S. Maguire , A. Maio , S. Manecki , J. Maneira , R. D. Martin , E. Marzec , A. Mastbaum , N. McCauley , A. B. McDonald , P. Mekarski , M. Meyer , C. Mills , I. Morton-Blake , S. Nae , M. Nirkko , L. J. Nolan , H. M. O'Keeffe , G. D. Orebi Gann , M. J. Parnell , J. Paton , S. J. M. Peeters , T. Pershing , L. Pickard , G. Prior , A. Reichold , S. Riccetto , R. Richardson , M. Rigan , J. Rose , R. Rosero , P. M. Rost , J. Rumleskie , I. Semenec , F. Shaker , M. K. Sharma , K. Singh , P. Skensved , M. Smiley , M. I. Stringer , R. Svoboda , B. Tam , L. Tian , J. Tseng , E. Turner , R. Van Berg , J. G. C. Veinot , C. J. Virtue , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , S. C. Walton , J. Wang , M. Ward , J. J. Weigand , J. R. Wilson , P. Woosaree , A. Wright , J. P. Yanez , M. Yeh , T. Zhang , Y. Zhang , K. Zuber , A. Zummo

Measurements of the arrival directions of cosmic rays have not revealed their sources. High energy neutrino telescopes attempt to resolve the problem by detecting neutrinos whose directions are not scrambled by magnetic fields. The key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francis Halzen

The ARIANNA hexagonal radio array (HRA) is an experiment in its pilot phase designed to detect cosmogenic neutrinos of energies above 10^16 eV. The most neutrino-like background stems from the radio emission of air showers. This article…

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) offers a unique way to study neutrino properties and to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Nuclear reactors are promising sources to explore this process at low…

The possibilities of detecting high energy neutrinos through inclined showers produced in the atmosphere are addressed with an emphasis on the detection of air showers by arrays of particle detectors. Rates of inclined showers produced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Enrique Zas

The GEM-based neutron detector has flourished in the past decade. However almost all the GEM-based neutron detectors work in the flow-gas mode, and the long-term performances of the detectors may be unstable due to the dynamic changes of…

Driver assistance systems as well as autonomous cars have to rely on sensors to perceive their environment. A heterogeneous set of sensors is used to perform this task robustly. Among them, radar sensors are indispensable because of their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Johanna Rock , Mate Toth , Elmar Messner , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf

We study the possibility of detecting the background of Supernova Relic Neutrinos (SRN) with liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detectors. As far as this study is concerned, these experimental devices are mainly sensitive to…

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