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Muon radiography often referred to as muography, is an imaging technique that uses freely available cosmic-ray muons to study the interior structure of natural or man-made large-scale objects. The amount of multidisciplinary applications of…

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at LHC features the largest Silicon Strip Tracker (SST) ever build. This device is immersed in a 4T magnetic field and, in conjunction with a Pixel system, it allows the momentum of the charged…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 Giacomo Sguazzoni

Gas electron multiplier(GEM) detector is used in Cosmic Muon Scattering Tomography and neutron imaging in the last decade. In this work, a triple GEM device with an effective readout area of 10 cm X 10 cm is developed, and an experiment of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-04 Wu Hui-Yin , Zhao Sheng-Ying , Wang Xiao-Dong , Zhang Xian-Ming , Qi Hui-Rong , Zhang Wei , Wu Ke-Yan , Hu Bi-Tao , Zhang Yi

In the context of particle therapy monitoring, we are developing a gamma-ray detector to determine the ion range in vivo from the measurement of particle time-of-flight. For this application, a beam monitor capable to tag in time the…

We report on the development of a front-end ASIC for silicon-strip detectors of the J-PARC Muon g-2/EDM experiment. This experiment aims to measure the muon anomalous magnetic moment and electric dipole moment precisely to explore new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-30 Yuki Tsutsumi , Tetsuichi Kishishita , Yutaro Sato , Masayoshi Shoji , Manobu M. Tanaka , Tsutomu Mibe , Junji Tojo

Cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere result in a flux of secondary particles including muons and electrons. Atmospheric ray tomography (ART) uses the muons and electrons for detecting objects and their composition. This paper…

We report on the design and commissioning of a new spectrometer for muon-spin relaxation/rotation studies installed at the Swiss Muon Source (S$\mu$S) of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland). This new instrument is essentially a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-03 A. Amato , H. Luetkens , K. Sedlak , A. Stoykov , R. Scheuermann , M. Elender , A. Raselli , D. Graf

We present the results of the charge ratio ($R$) and polarization ($P^{\mu}_{0}$) measurements using the decay electron events collected from 2008 September to 2022 June by the Super-Kamiokande detector. Because of its underground location…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-05 H. Kitagawa , T. Tada , K. Abe , C. Bronner , Y. Hayato , K. Hiraide , K. Hosokawa , K. Ieki , M. Ikeda , J. Kameda , Y. Kanemura , R. Kaneshima , Y. Kashiwagi , Y. Kataoka , S. Miki , S. Mine , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , Y. Nakano , M. Nakahata , S. Nakayama , Y. Noguchi , K. Okamoto , K. Sato , H. Sekiya , H. Shiba , K. Shimizu , M. Shiozawa , Y. Sonoda , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , Y. Takemoto , A. Takenaka , H. Tanaka , S. Watanabe , T. Yano , S. Han , T. Kajita , K. Okumura , T. Tashiro , T. Tomiya , X. Wang , S. Yoshida , G. D. Megias , P. Fernandez , L. Labarga , N. Ospina , B. Zaldivar , B. W. Pointon , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , L. Wan , T. Wester , J. Bian , N. J. Griskevich , S. Locke , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , V. Takhistov , A. Yankelevich , J. Hill , M. C. Jang , S. H. Lee , D. H. Moon , R. G. Park , B. Bodur , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , A. Beauchêne , O. Drapier , A. Giampaolo , Th. A. Mueller , A. D. Santos , P. Paganini , B. Quilain , R. Rogly , T. Nakamura , J. S. Jang , L. N. Machado , J. G. Learned , K. Choi , N. Iovine , S. Cao , L. H. V. Anthony , D. Martin , N. W. Prouse , M. Scott , A. A. Sztuc , Y. Uchida , V. Berardi , N. F. Calabria , M. G. Catanesi , E. Radicioni , A. Langella , G. De Rosa , G. Collazuol , F. Iacob , M. Lamoureux , M. Mattiazzi , L. Ludovici , M. Gonin , L. Périssé , G. Pronost , C. Fujisawa , Y. Maekawa , Y. Nishimura , R. Okazaki , R. Akutsu , M. Friend , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Kobayashi , M. Jakkapu , T. Matsubara , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , N. Bhuiyan , G. T. Burton , F. Di Lodovico , J. Gao , A. Goldsack , T. Katori , J. Migenda , R. M. Ramsden , Z. Xie , S. Zsoldos , Y. Kotsar , H. Ozaki , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takagi , Y. Takeuchi , H. Zhong , J. Feng , L. Feng , J. R. Hu , Z. Hu , M. Kawaue , T. Kikawa , M. Mori , T. Nakaya , R. A. Wendell , K. Yasutome , S. J. Jenkins , N. McCauley , P. Mehta , A. Tarant , M. J. Wilking , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , H. Menjo , K. Ninomiya , Y. Yoshioka , J. Lagoda , M. Mandal , P. Mijakowski , Y. S. Prabhu , J. Zalipska , M. Jia , J. Jiang , C. K. Jung , W. Shi , C. Yanagisawa , M. Harada , Y. Hino , H. Ishino , Y. Koshio , F. Nakanishi , S. Sakai , T. Tano , T. Ishizuka , G. Barr , D. Barrow , L. Cook , S. Samani , D. Wark , A. Holin , F. Nova , S. Jung , B. S. Yang , J. Y. Yang , J. Yoo , J. E. P. Fannon , L. Kneale , M. Malek , J. M. McElwee , M. D. Thiesse , L. F. Thompson , S. T. Wilson , H. Okazawa , S. M. Lakshmi , S. B. Kim , E. Kwon , J. W. Seo , I. Yu , A. K. Ichikawa , K. D. Nakamura , S. Tairafune , K. Nishijima , A. Eguchi , K. Nakagiri , Y. Nakajima , S. Shima , N. Taniuchi , E. Watanabe , M. Yokoyama , P. de Perio , S. Fujita , C. Jesús-Valls , K. Martens , K. M. Tsui , M. R. Vagins , J. Xia , S. Izumiyama , M. Kuze , R. Matsumoto , K. Terada , M. Ishitsuka , H. Ito , T. Kinoshita , Y. Ommura , N. Shigeta , M. Shinoki , T. Suganuma , K. Yamauchi , T. Yoshida , J. F. Martin , H. A. Tanaka , T. Towstego , R. Gaur , V. Gousy-Leblanc , M. Hartz , A. Konaka , X. Li , S. Chen , B. D. Xu , B. Zhang , M. Posiadala-Zezula , S. B. Boyd , R. Edwards , D. Hadley , M. Nicholson , M. O'Flaherty , B. Richards , A. Ali , B. Jamieson , S. Amanai , Ll. Marti , A. Minamino , G. Pintaudi , S. Sano , S. Suzuki , K. Wada

A series of beam tests were conducted at the KEK AR test beamline in ordet to investigate the performance of a prototype detector for instrumentation in the low-E beamline at the CERN H2 line. For the silicon strip detector, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-27 Y. Hino , M. Harada , N. Meguro , T. Tada , Y. Koshio , K. Sakashita , M. Friend , T. Nakadaira , S. Nishimori , Y. Nagai

Pressurized drift-tube chambers are efficient detectors for high-precision tracking over large areas. The Monitored Drift-Tube (MDT) chambers of the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reach a spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-04 B. Bittner , J. Dubbert , S. Horvat , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , F. Legger , R. Richter , S. Adomeit , O. Biebel , A. Engl , R. Hertenberger , F. Rauscher , A. Zibell

Recent advances in low-cost, portable cosmic-ray detectors have broadened citizen-science engagement in particle physics studies. Imaging applications such as muography, however, remain largely inaccessible because existing detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-09 Chiori Matsushita , Mihiro Nukiwa , Aoi Atobe , Yuzuka Sasaki , Manami Sawai , Rikako Kono , Seyma Esen , Martin Schwinzerl , Kazuo S. Tanaka

We present a detailed study of an 8-channel $1\times1$ mm$^{2}$ WSi superconducting microwire single photon detector (SMSPD) array exposed to 120 GeV hadron beam and 120 GeV muon beam at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron H6 beamline.…

An important source of background in direct searches for low-mass dark matter particles are the energy deposits by small-angle scattering of environmental $\gamma$ rays. We report detailed measurements of low-energy spectra from Compton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-30 K. Ramanathan , A. Kavner , A. E. Chavarria , P. Privitera , D. Amidei , T. -L. Chou , A. Matalon , R. Thomas , J. Estrada , J. Tiffenberg , J. Molina

Muon-spin spectroscopy at continuous sources has stagnated at a stopped muons rate of ~40 kHz for the last few decades. The major limiting factor is the requirement of a single muon in the sample during the typical 10 {\mu}s data gate…

We have developed a neutron imaging sensor based on an INTPIX4-SOI pixelated silicon device. Neutron irradiation tests are performed at several neutron facilities to investigate sensor's responses for neutrons. Detection efficiency is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-04 Y. Kamiya , T. Miyoshi , H. Iwase , T. Inada , A. Mizushima , Y. Mita , K. Shimazoe , H. Tanaka , I. Kurachi , Y. Arai

A measurement is presented of the flux ratio of positive and negative muons from cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere, using data collected by the CMS detector at ground level and in the underground experimental cavern. The excellent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-22 Lars Sonnenschein

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment designed to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy using a central detector (CD), which contains 20 kton liquid scintillator (LS) surrounded by about…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-29 Kun Zhang , Miao He , Weidong Li , Jilei Xu

We present an improved technique for estimating a muon's energy by measuring the deflections along its path inside the MicroBooNE detector from multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS). This approach implements several innovations that better…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-06 MicroBooNE Collaboration , P. Abratenko , D. Andrade Aldana , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , B. Behera , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , V. Bhelande , A. Binau , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , C. Fang , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , M. Harrison , S. Hawkins , A. Hergenhan , O. Hen , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hussain , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , A. Johnson , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , A. Kelly , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , K. Kumar , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , L. Liu , S. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , T. Mahmud , N. Majeed , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , M. G. Manuel Alves , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , F. Martinez Lopez , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , B. McConnell , L. Mellet , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , A. Mogan , T. Mohayai , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. A. Hernandez Morquecho , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleriababu , D. Naples , A. Navrer Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , L. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. B. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , C. Sauer , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , L. Silva , E. L. Snider , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , L. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang , Y. Zhang

This work presents the design and performance study of compact strips of plastic scintillator with WLS-fiber readout in a dimension of 0.1 * 0.02 * 2 m3, which evaluates as a candidate for cosmic-ray muon detector for JUNO-TAO. The strips…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-11 Min Li , Zhimin Wang , Caimei Liu , Peizhi Lu , Guang Luo , Yuen-Keung Hor , Jinchang Liu , Changgen Yang

A large volume TPC is a leading candidate for the central tracking detector at a future high energy linear collider. To improve the resolution a new readout based on micro-pattern gas detectors is being developed. Measurements of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-19 R. K. Carnegie , M. S. Dixit , J. Dubeau , D. Karlen , J. -P. Martin , H. Mes , K. Sachs