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A dedicated R\&D is ongoing for the charged particle identification system of the \mbox{ALICE 3} experiment proposed for the LHC Run 5 and beyond. One of the subsystems for the high-energy charged particle identification will be a…

First of its kind, the barrel section of the MIP Timing Detector is a large area timing detector based on LYSO:Ce crystals and SiPMs which are required to operate in an unprecedentedly harsh radiation environment (up to an integrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-14 F. Addesa , P. Akrap , A. Albert , B. Allmond , T. Anderson , J. Babbar , D. Baranyai , P. Barria , C. Basile , A. Benaglia , A. Benato , M. Benettoni , M. Besancon , N. Bez , S. Bhattacharya , R. Bianco , D. Blend , A. Boletti , A. Bornheim , R. Bugalho , A. Bulla , B. Cardwell , R. Carlin , M. Casarsa , F. Cetorelli , F. Cossutti , B. Cox , G. Da Molin , F. De Guio , K. De Leo , F. De Riggi , P. Debbins , D. Del Re , R. Delli Gatti , J. Dervan , P. Devouge , K. Dreimanis , O. M. Eberlins , F. Errico , E. Fernandez , W. Funk , A. Gaile , M. Gallinaro , R. Gargiulo , R. Gerosa , A. Ghezzi , B. Gyongyosi , Z. Hao , A. H. Heering , Z. Hu , R. Isocrate , M. Jose , A. Karneyeu , M. S. Kim , A. Krishna , B. Kronheim , O. K. Köseyan , A. Ledovskoy , L. Li , Z. Li , V. Lohezic , F. Lombardi , M. T. Lucchini , M. Malberti , Y. Mao , Y. Maravin , B. Marzocchi , D. Mazzaro , R. Menon Raghunandanan , P. Meridiani , C. Munoz Diaz , Y. Musienko , S. Nargelas , L. L. Narváez , C. Neu , G. Organtini , T. Orimoto , D. Osite , M. Paganoni , S. Palluotto , C. Palmer , N. Palmeri , F. Pandolfi , R. Paramatti , T. Pauletto , A. Perego , G. Pikurs , G. Pizzati , R. Plese , C. Quaranta , G. Reales Gutiérrez , N. Redaelli , S. Ronchi , R. Rossin , M. Ö. Sahin , F. Santanastasio , I. Schmidt , D. Sidiropoulos Kontos , T. Sievert , R. Silva , P. Simmerling , L. Soffi , P. Solanki , G. Sorrentino , M. Spiropulu , N. R. Strautnieks , X. Sun , D. D. Szabo , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , G. Tamulaitis , R. Taylor , M. Titov , M. Tosi , G. Trabucco , A. Tsirou , C. Tully , M. Turcato , B. Ujvari , J. Varela , F. Veronese , V. Vladimirov , J. Wang , M. Wayne , S. White , Z. Wu , J. W. Wulff , R. A. Wynne , L. Zhang , M. Zhang , G. Zilizi

Application of Micromegas for sampling calorimetry puts specific constraints on the design and performance of this gaseous detector. In particular, uniform and linear response, low noise and stability against high ionisation density…

Micromegas is one of the detector technologies (along with the small Thin Gap Chambers) that has been chosen for precision tracking and triggering purposes of the ATLAS muon forward detectors in the view of LHC luminosity increase. To…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 Georgios Iakovidis

New Micromegas (Micro-mesh gaseous detectors) are being developed in view of the future physics projects planned by the COMPASS collaboration at CERN. Several major upgrades compared to present detectors are being studied: detectors…

Large Area Picosecond PhotoDetectors (LAPPDs) are photosensors based on microchannel plate technology with about 400 cm$^2$ sensitive area. The external readout plane of a capacitively coupled LAPPD can be segmented into pads providing a…

The CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer (CT-PPS) is an approved project to add tracking and timing information at approximately $\pm$210~m from the interaction point around the CMS detector. It is designed to operate at high luminosity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Michele Gallinaro

Cherenkov imaging detectors will continue to play a central role for particle identification in future particle and nuclear physics experiments. Growing demands on momentum coverage, timing precision, radiation tolerance, and sustainability…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-27 Chandradoy Chatterjee

A new particle detector with sub-nanosecond time resolution capable of working in high-rate environment (rate capability of the order of $MHz/ cm^2$) is under developmnet. Semiconductive electrodes with resistivity $\rho$ up to $10^8…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 A. Rocchi , R. Cardarelli , G. Aielli , E. Alunno Camelia , S. Bruno , A. Caltabiano , P. Camarri , A. Di Ciaccio , B. Liberti , L. Massa , L. Pizzimento

The development of new detectors based on Silicon Carbide (SiC) is currently a topic of interest within the scientific community. The significant features of SiC make it highly promising for detecting charged particles, neutrons, and…

This paper describes the experience with the calibration, reconstruction and evaluation of the timing capabilities of the CMS HGCAL prototype in the beam tests in 2018. The calibration procedure includes multiple steps and corrections…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-15 CMS HGCAL collaboration

We report on studies of fast triggering and high-precision tracking using Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Two beam tests were carried out with the 180 GeV muon beam at CERN using RPCs with gas gaps of 1.00 or 1.15 mm and equipped with…

The development of large-area homogeneous photo-detectors with sub-millimeter path lengths for direct Cherenkov light and for secondary-electrons opens the possibility of large time-of-flight systems for relativistic particles with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-05 Jean-Francois Genat , Gary Varner , Fukun Tang , Henry Frisch

TORCH is a time-of-flight detector, designed to provide charged pi/K particle identification up to a momentum of 10 GeV/c for a 10 m flight path. To achieve this level of performance, a time resolution of 15 ps per incident particle is…

The performance of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter upgraded readout electronics, developed for the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC, is discussed. Data collected in two beam test campaigns conducted in 2018 and 2021 at the H4 and H2…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-24 The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Group

The existing CMS endcap calorimeters will be replaced with a High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) for operation at the High Luminosity (HL) LHC. Radiation hardness and excellent physics performance will be achieved by utilising silicon pad…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Artur Lobanov

We give a short compendium of the main ongoing detectors and concepts capable of performing accurate sub-100 ps timing at high particle fluxes and on large areas, through technologies based on gaseous media. We briefly discuss the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 D. Gonzalez-Diaz , F. R. Palomo , J. Gonzalez , H. Chen

Cerenkov technology is often the optimal choice for particle identification in high energy particle collision applications. Typically, the most challenging regime is at high pseudorapidity (forward) where particle identification must…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-28 M. Blatnik , K. Dehmelt , A. Deshpande , D. Dixit , N. Feege , T. K. Hemmick , B. Lewis , M. L. Purschke , W. Roh , F. Torales-Acosta , T. Videbaek , S. Zajac

Future experiments of nuclear and particle physics are moving towards the high luminosity regime, in order to access suppressed processes like rare B decays or exotic charmonium resonances. In this scenario, high rate capability is a key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-18 M. Cardinali , O. Corell , M. I. Ferretti Bondy , M. Hoek , W. Lauth , C. Rosner , C. Sfienti , M. Thiel

Particle identification at the Belle II experiment will be provided by two ring imaging Cherenkov devices, the time of propagation counters in the central region and the proximity focusing RICH with aerogel radiator in the forward end-cap…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 S. Sandilya