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A prototype of a Si-W EM calorimeter was built with Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors as the active elements. With a pixelsize of 30 $\mu$m it allows digital calorimetry, i.e. the particles' energy is determined by counting pixels, not by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-14 A. P. de Haas , G. Nooren , T. Peitzmann , M. Reicher , E. Rocco , D. Roehrich , K. Ullaland , A. van den Brink , M. van Leeuwen , H. Wang , S. Yang , C. Zhang

Crystal electromagnetic calorimeters (ECALs) are essential for high-precision measurements of electrons and photons in particle physics experiments. However, the conventional design, in which long crystal bars point radially toward the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-26 Weizheng Song , Yang Zhang , Shengsen Sun , Fangyi Guo , Yuanzhan Wang , Linghui Wu , Jie Guo , Shaojing Hou , Yong Liu , Quan Ji , Jinfan Chang , Yifang Wang

Electromagnetic showers developing from the collision of an ultra-intense laser pulse with a beam of high-energy electrons or photons are investigated under conditions relevant to future experiments on multi-petawatt laser facilities. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 M. Pouyez , A. A. Mironov , T. Grismayer , A. Mercuri-Baron , F. Perez , M. Vranic , C. Riconda , M. Grech

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on detailed simulations of particle collisions to build expectations of what experimental data may look like under different theory modeling assumptions. Petabytes of simulated data are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-06 Michela Paganini , Luke de Oliveira , Benjamin Nachman

This paper deals with an analytical modeling of heat transfers simulating a new radiation calorimeter operating in a temperature range from -50 {\deg}C to 150 {\deg}C. The aim of this modeling is the evaluation of the feasibility and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-11 Elysée Obame Ndong , Olivier Gallot-Lavallée , Frédéric Aitken

With centre-of-mass energies covering the Z pole, the WW threshold, the HZ production, and the top-pair threshold, the FCC-ee offers unprecedented possibilities to measure the properties of the four heaviest particles of the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-02 Martin Aleksa , Franco Bedeschi , Roberto Ferrari , Felix Sefkow , Christopher G. Tully

We demonstrate the calculation of solar wind electron bulk parameters from recent observations by Solar Wind Analyser Electron Analyser System on board Solar Orbiter. We use our methods to derive the electron bulk parameters in a time…

Calorimeter shower simulations are often the bottleneck in simulation time for particle physics detectors. A lot of effort is currently spent on optimizing generative architectures for specific detector geometries, which generalize poorly.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-19 Junze Liu , Aishik Ghosh , Dylan Smith , Pierre Baldi , Daniel Whiteson

We investigate theoretically the possibility of using the cold-electron bolometer (CEB) as a counter for 1 cm wavelength (30 GHz) photons. To reduce the flux of photons from the environment, which interact with the detector, the bath…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 D. V. Anghel , L. S. Kuzmin

Air shower simulation programs are essential tools for the analysis of data from cosmic ray experiments and for planning the layout of new detectors. They are used to estimate the energy and mass of the primary particle. Unfortunately the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Knapp , D. Heck , S. J. Sciutto , M. T. Dova , M. Risse

Recent studies have shown that the electromagnetic shower induced by a high-energy electron, positron or photon incident along the axis of an oriented crystal develops in a space more compact than the ordinary. On the other hand, the…

Precision physics at future colliders requires highly granular calorimeters to support the Particle Flow Approach for event reconstruction. This article presents a review of about 10 - 15 years of R\&D, mainly conducted within the CALICE…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-20 Felix Sefkow , Andy White , Kiyotomo Kawagoe , Roman Pöschl , José Repond

In this paper, a data-driven method to precisely simulate the detector response of the anti-neutron depositing in the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC)at BESIII is introduced. A large anti-neutron data sample can be selected using the decay…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-05-11 Liang Liu , Xiaorong Zhou , Haiping Peng

The electron-neutrino mass (or masses and mixing angles) may be directly measurable in weak electron-capture decays. The favoured experimental technique is "calorimetric". The optimal nuclide is $^{163}$Ho, and several experiments (ECHo,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 A. De Rújula , M. Lusignoli

The fine-sampling electromagnetic calorimeter prototype has been experimentally tested using the 1-19 GeV/c tagged beams of negatively charged particles at the U70 accelerator at IHEP, Protvino. The energy resolution measured by electrons…

Glass RPC detectors are an attractive candidate for the active part of a highly granular digital hadron calorimeter (DHCAL) at the ILC. A numerical study, based on the GEANT3 simulation package, of the performance of such a calorimeter is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ghezzi , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , G. Tinti , M. Piccolo

The local magnetic field in a Penning-Malmberg trap is found by measuring the temperatures that result when electron plasmas are illuminated by microwaves pulses. Multiple heating resonances are observed as the pulse frequencies are swept.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 E. D. Hunter , A. Christensen , J. Fajans , T. Friesen , E. Kur , J. S. Wurtele

Measurements of the lateral distribution of Cherenkov photons with the wide-angle atmospheric Cherenkov light detector array AIROBICC and of the charged particle lateral distribution with the scintillator matrix of the HEGRA air-shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Arqueros , The HEGRA Collaboration

Detectors proposed for the International Linear Collider (ILC) incorporate a tungsten sampling calorimeter (`BeamCal') intended to reconstruct showers of electrons, positrons and photons that emerge from the interaction point of the…

The first evaluation of an ultra-high granularity digital electromagnetic calorimeter prototype using 1.0-5.8 GeV/c electrons is presented. The $25\times10^6$ pixel detector consists of 24 layers of ALPIDE CMOS MAPS sensors, with a pitch of…