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This paper presents a novel approach to addressing challenges in neutrino event reconstruction within large Time Projection Chambers (TPCs). By integrating fiber-coupled digital silicon photomultipliers, we propose a design that enhances…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-26 Pieter Alexander Breur , Xavier Defay , David Jackson , James Robert Sinclair , Elizabeth Triller , Andrew Young

Discovering the microscopic composition of dark matter is one of the most important open problems in physics today. Axions are a leading candidate to be dark matter; however, a search of the full range of all likely axion masses is hampered…

Accurate calibration of photodetectors both in analog and in photon-counting regime is fundamental for various scientific applications, which range from "traditional" quantum optics to the studies on foundations of quantum mechanics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giorgio Brida , Maria Chekhova , Marco Genovese , Alexander Penin , Ivano Ruo-Berchera

The multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC) is a newly developed photodetector with an excellent photon counting capability. It also has many attractive features such as small size, high gain, low operation voltage and power consumption, and…

This publication focuses on the study of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) in view of a reconstruction of the incident photon flux in the regime of highly non-linear response. SiPMs are semiconductor based light detectors compiled of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-29 T. Bretz , T. Hebbeker , J. Kemp

Pulse pile-up in pulse-height energy analyzers increases when the incident rate of pulses increases relative to the inverse of the dead time per pulse of the detection system. Changes in the observed energy distributions with incident rate…

Dynamic x-ray studies may reach temporal resolutions limited by only the x-ray pulse duration if the detector is fast enough to segregate synchrotron pulses. An analog integrating pixel array detector with in-pixel storage and temporal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-07-28 Lucas J. Koerner , Sol M. Gruner

For large scale applications, hybrid pixel detectors, in which sensor and read-out IC are separate entities, constitute the state of the art in pixel detector technology to date. They have been developed and start to be used as tracking…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-22 Norbert Wermes

We compare the standard 50%-efficient single beam splitter method for Bell-state measurement to a proposed 75%-efficient auxiliary-photon-enhanced scheme [W. P. Grice, Phys. Rev. A 84, 042331 (2011)] in light of realistic conditions. The…

We propose an analysis of the dead time losses in counting imaging detectors such as MWPC which can resolve $k$ simultaneous hits, and analyze in more detail an $X-Y$ detector which has a third wire set which allows for the recognition of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Patrick Van Esch

Single-photon detectors are an essential part of the toolbox of modern quantum optics for implementing quantum technologies and enabling tests of fundamental physics. The low energy of microwave photons, the natural signal path for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lukas Danner , Max Hofheinz , Nicolas Bourlet , Ciprian Padurariu , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

We measure the nonlinearity of a telecom-wavelength superconducting nanowire single-photon detector via incoherent beam combination. At typical photon count rates and detector bias current, the observed relative deviation from a perfectly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Patrick Mark , Sebastian Gstir , Julian Münzberg , Gregor Weihs , Robert Keil

This work explores the combination of liquid xenon as a scintillating medium and silicon photomultipliers as a readout in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for enhanced Time-Of-Flight resolution. We present the results of our first…

In-vacuum active pixel detectors enable high sensitivity, highly parallel time- and space-resolved detection of ions from complex surfaces. For the first time, a Timepix detector assembly was combined with a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-05 András Kiss , Julia H. Jungmann , Donald F. Smith , Ron M. A. Heeren

Positronium Imaging requires two classes of events: double-coincidences originated from pair of back-to-back annihilation photons and triple-coincidences comprised with two annihilation photons and one additional prompt photon. The standard…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Lech Raczynski , Wojciech Krzemien , Konrad Klimaszewski

We demonstrate coincidence measurements of spatially entangled photons by means of a novel type of multi-pixel based detection array. The adopted sensor is a fully digital 8$\times$16 silicon photomultiplier array allowing not only photon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-19 Manuel Unternährer , Bänz Bessire , Leonardo Gasparini , David Stoppa , André Stefanov

As liquid xenon TPCs increase in target mass while pursuing the direct detection of WIMP dark matter, the technical challenges arising due to their size call for new solutions and open the discussion on alternative detector concepts.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-14 Fabian Kuger , Julia Dierle , Horst Fischer , Marc Schumann , Francesco Toschi

This paper proposes a novel method to filter out the false alarm of LiDAR system by using the temporal correlation of target reflected photons. Because of the inevitable noise, which is due to background light and dark counts of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-22 Zhenchao Feng , Weiji He , Jian Fang , Guohua Gu , Qian Chen , Ping Zhang , Yuanjin Chen , Beibei Zhou , Minhua Zhou

We develop an analytic model that relates intensity correlation measurements performed by an image sensor to the properties of photon pairs illuminating it. Experiments using both an effective single-photon counting (SPC) camera and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Hugo Defienne , Matthew Reichert , Jason W. Fleischer

With increasing interest in high-speed imaging should come an increased interest in the response times of our scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) detectors. Previous works have previously highlighted and contrasted performance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 Tiarnan Mullarkey , Matthew Geever , Jonathan J. P. Peters , Ian Griffiths , Peter D. Nellist , Lewys Jones