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Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings have excellent mechanical and tribological properties, as well as good wear and corrosion resistance. They are well established in medical, metalworking and automotive applications. However, further…

Micro pattern gaseous detectors have been widely used in position measurements of particle detection in the last two decades. In this work a novel method of track identification and reconstruction was developed for fast neutron detection by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-16 Yi Zhang , Huiyin Wu , Shengying Zhao , Bitao Hu

We present the design and performance characterization results of the novel Fermilab Constant Fraction Discriminator ASIC (FCFD) developed to readout low gain avalanche detector (LGAD) signals by directly using a constant fraction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-14 Si Xie , Artur Apresyan , Ryan Heller , Christopher Madrid , Irene Dutta , Aram Hayrapetyan , Sergey Los , Cristian Pena , Tom Zimmerman

The Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors offer excellent spatial and temporal resolution in harsh radiation environments of high-luminosity colliders. In this work, an attempt has been made to establish an algorithm for estimating the time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-11 Purba Bhattacharya , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Sudeb Bhattacharya

In beam test experiments have been carried out for particle identification using digital pulse shape analysis in a 500~$\mu$m thick Neutron Transmutation Doped (nTD) silicon detector with an indigenously developed FPGA based 12 bit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-09 K. Mahata , A. Shrivastava , J. A. Gore , S. K. Pandit , V. V. Parkar , K. Ramachandran , A. Kumar , S. Gupta , P. Patale

The planned luminosity increase at the Large Hadron Collider in the coming years has triggered interest in the use of the particles' time of arrival as additional information in specialized detectors to mitigate the impact of pile-up. The…

Diamond and diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings are widely employed for their exceptional mechanical, thermal and chemical properties, but their industrial application is often limited by weak adhesion to metallic substrates. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Elisa Damiani , Margherita Marsili , Maria Clelia Righi

The PICOSEC Micromegas detector is a~precise-timing gaseous detector based on a~Cherenkov radiator coupled with a~semi-transparent photocathode and a~Micromegas amplifying structure, targeting a~time resolution of tens of picoseconds for…

Recent interest in pile-up mitigation through fast timing at the HL-LHC has focused attention on technologies that now achieve minimum ionising particle (MIP) time resolution of 30 picoseconds or less. The constraints of technical maturity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-18 M. Centis Vignali , M. Gallinaro , B. Harrop , C. Lu , M. McClish , M. Moll , M. Newcomer , S. Otero Ugobono , S. White

The monolithic integration of electronics and photonics has attracted enormous attention due to its potential applications. However, the realization of such hybrid circuits has remained a challenge because it requires optical communication…

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

Simulation of detecting photoelectrons using multi-level multi-electron (MLME) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method with an application to near-field subwavelength imaging based on semiconductor nanophotodetector (NPD) array is…

Optics · Physics 2009-02-20 Ki Young Kim , Boyang Liu , Yingyan Huang , Seng-Tiong Ho

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) featuring 1 mm gas volumes combined with high-pressure phenolic laminate (HPL) electrodes provide excellent timing resolution down to a few hundred picoseconds, along with spatial resolution on the order of a…

The detectors with $\mathcal{O}$(10) $\mu$m spatial resolution and $\mathcal{O}$(10) ps timing resolution construct powerful particle trackers for future hadron or lepton collider experiments. LGAD: Low-Gain-Avalanche-Diode is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-17 Tomoka Imamura , Sayuka Kita , Koji Nakamura , Kazuhiko Hara

The Hydrogenated Diamond Like Carbon (HDLC) thin films are deposited on Silicon substrate at room temperature using asymmetric capacitively coupled RF plasma with varying flow rates of methane. These films are undergone annealing at high…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 J Datta , H S Biswas , P Rao , G L N Reddy , S Kumar , N R Ray , D P Chowdhury , A V R Reddy

Silicon-based tracking detectors have been used in several important applications, such as in cancer therapy using particle beams, and for the discovery of new elementary particles at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. III-V semiconductor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-27 Victor Rangel-Kuoppa , Sheng Ye , Yasir J Noori , William Holmkvist , Robert J Young , Daniel Muenstermann

The upgrades of ATLAS and CMS for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) highlighted physics objects timing as a tool to resolve primary interactions within a bunch crossing. Since the expected pile-up is around 200, with an r.m.s. time spread of…

The characteristic results by different diagnostics on a typical hydrogenated diamond like carbon (HDLC) film synthesized directly in a capacitatively coupled RF (13.56 MHz) discharge are described. The results show some typical charecteric…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-28 Nihar Ranjan Ray , A. K. Srivastava , Rainer Grotzschel

Plastic scintillation detectors represent an efficient, cost-effective, customizable solution for assessment of gamma radiation fields in the context of nuclear security, environmental radiation survey, radiological and nuclear incidents…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-08 Paolo Tancioni , Ulisse Gendotti

This work reports on the performance of a novel neutron-sensitive scintillating detector fabricated using Fused-Deposition Modelling (FDM) additive manufacturing. FDM is a cost-effective 3D-printing method employing flexible plastic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-07 Adam Barr , Cinzia da Vià , Mosst Tasnim Binte Shawkat , Stephen Watts , John Allison , Gabriele D'Amen , Tianqi Gao