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In order to test the performance of detector/prototype in environment of laboratory, we design and build a larger area ($90\times52$ $cm^2$) test platform of cosmic ray based on well-designed Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) with an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-16 Tianxiang Chen , Cheng Li , Yongjie Sun , Hongfang Chen , Ming Shao , Zebo Tang , Rongxing Yang , Yi Zhou , Yifei Zhang

Recent inroads in Computer Vision (CV) and Machine Learning (ML) have motivated a new approach to the analysis of particle imaging detector data. Unlike previous efforts which tackled isolated CV tasks, this paper introduces an end-to-end,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-02 Francois Drielsma , Kazuhiro Terao , Laura Dominé , Dae Heun Koh

The Multipurpose Detector (MPD) \cite{cite1.MPD_CDR} is designed to study of hot and dense baryonic matter in collisions of heavy ions over the atomic mass range 1--197 at the centre of mass energy up to $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$ = 11 GeV (for…

The analog front-end electronics based on the constant fraction discrimination method is designed and optimized for the Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) timing measurements. The total time resolution of 40 ps has been obtained for 10…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-29 L. L. Kurchaninov , E. A. Ladygin , V. P. Ladygin , A. A. Semak

A four-gap glass RPC with 0.3mm gap size was tested with hadron beam as a time-of-flight detector having a time resolution of ~ 100ps. A thickness of the detector together with front-end electronics is ~ 12mm. Results on time resolution…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Ammosov , V. Gapienko , A. Semak , V. Senko , Yu. Sviridov , V. Zaets , E. Usenko

Gas detectors are one of the pillars of the research in fundamental physics. Since many years, a new concept of detectors, the Micro Pattern Gas Detectors, allows to overcome many of the problems of other types of commonly used detectors,…

A new kind of Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) has been built for the large-area Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) for the STAR experiment at RHIC. These long read-out strip MRPCs (LMRPCs) have an active area of 87.0 x 17.0 cm2 and ten…

Single-bed whole-body positron emission tomography based on resistive plate chamber detectors (RPC-PET) has been proposed for human studies, as a complementary resource to scintillator-based PET scanners. The purpose of this work is mainly…

An optimized design of a neutron detector based on timing RPCs (Resistive Plate Chambers) with boron-10 neutron converters is presented. The detector is composed of a stack of ten double gap RPCs with aluminium cathode plates coated on both…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 L. M. S. Margato , G. Canezin , A. Morozov , A. Blanco , J. Saraiva , L. Lopes , P. Fonte

The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) is an advanced neutrino detector technology widely used in recent and upcoming accelerator neutrino experiments. It features a low energy threshold and high spatial resolution that allow for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 Haiwang Yu , Mary Bishai , Wenqiang Gu , Meifeng Lin , Xin Qian , Yihui Ren , Andrea Scarpelli , Brett Viren , Hanyu Wei , Hongzhao Yu , Kwang Min Yu , Chao Zhang

The applications of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) have recently been extended by the development of counters with time resolution below 100 ps sigma for minimum ionising particles. Applications to HEP experiments have already taken place…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Blanco , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , A. Mangiarotti , R. Ferreira-Marques , A. Policarpo

This work reports a cost-effective, multi-parameter readout and data-acquisition system for a muon scattering tomography system based on Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Initial test measurements with a prototype Resistive Plate Chamber…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-01 Subhendu Das , Sridhar Tripathy , Sandip Sarkar , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay

Usage of electrodes made of glass with low bulk resistivity seems to be a promising way to adapt the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) to the high-rate environment of the upcoming CBM experiment. A pilot four-gap RPC sample with electrodes…

A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is an ideal device for the detection of charged particle tracks in a large volume covering a solid angle of almost $4\pi$. The high density of hits on a given particle track facilitates the task of pattern…

The ALICE Time-Of-Flight (TOF) detector at LHC is based on the Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs). The TOF performance during LHC Run 2 is here reported. Particular attention is given to the improved time resolution reached by TOF…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-24 Francesca Carnesecchi

Time-Of-Flight (TOF) is a noble technique that is used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging worldwide. The scintillator based imaging system that is being used around the world for TOF-PET is very expensive. Multi-gap Resistive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-02 Rajesh Ganai , Shaifali Mehta , Mehulkumar Shiroya , Mitali Mondal , Zubayer Ahammed , Subhasis Chattopadhyay

The HARP system of resistive plate chambers (RPCs) was designed to perform particle identification by the measurement of the difference in the time-of-flight of different particles. In previous papers an apparent discrepancy was shown…

In general-purpose particle detectors, the particle-flow algorithm may be used to reconstruct a comprehensive particle-level view of the event by combining information from the calorimeters and the trackers, significantly improving the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-06-10 Joosep Pata , Javier Duarte , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Spiropulu

We investigate a deep learning-based signal processing for liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), a leading detector technology in neutrino physics. Identifying regions of interest (ROIs) in LArTPCs is challenging due to signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-30 Avinay Bhat , Mun Jung Jung , Gray Putnam , Haiwang Yu

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show strong promise for analyzing scientific data in many domains including particle imaging detectors such as a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). Yet the high sparsity of LArTPC data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-07-15 Laura Dominé , Kazuhiro Terao