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The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is one detector of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). TileCal is a sampling calorimeter made of steel plates and plastic scintillators which are readout using approximately 10,000…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 F. Carrió , A. Valero

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Experiment is a second-generation highsensitivity gamma-ray and cosmic-ray detector that builds on the experience and technology of the Milagro observatory. Like Milagro, HAWC utilizes the water…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-16 Petra Huentemeyer , John A. J. Matthews , Brenda Dingus

The TORCH time-of-flight detector is designed to provide a 15 ps timing resolution for charged particles, resulting in $\pi$/$K$ particle identification up to 10 GeV/c momentum over a 10 m flight path. Cherenkov photons, produced in a…

This work presents the design and preliminary performance of a highly-multiplexed superconducting detector readout. The readout system is implemented on the Xilinx ZCU111 RFSoC Evaluation Board. The current design uses 12% of the DSPs, 60%…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Jennifer Pearl Smith , John I. Bailey , III. , Benjamin A. Mazin

We have embedded a physically defined p-channel silicon MOS quantum dot (QD) device into an impedance transformer RC circuit. To decrease the parasitic capacitance and surpass the cutoff frequency of the device which emerges in MOS devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Sinan Bugu , Shimpei Nishiyama , Kimihiko Kato , Yongxun Liu , Takahiro Mori , Tetsuo Kodera

We demonstrate multiphoton discrimination at telecom wavelength with the readout frequency of 40 Hz by charge integration photon detector (CIPD). The CIPD consists of an InGaAs pin photodiode and a GaAs junction field effect transistor as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Fujiwara , Masahide Sasaki

Noise at the quantum limit over a large bandwidth is a fundamental requirement for future applications operating at millikelvin temperatures, such as the neutrino mass measurement, the next-generation x-ray observatory, the CMB measurement,…

PICOSEC Micromegas (MM) is a precise timing gaseous detector based on a Cherenkov radiator coupled with a semi-transparent photocathode and an MM amplifying structure. The detector conceprt was successfully demonstrated through a…

This paper describes the characterization of crystal matrices and silicon photomultiplier arrays for a novel Positron Emission Tomography (PET) detector, namely the external plate of the EndoTOFPET-US system. The EndoTOFPET-US collaboration…

NectarCAM is a camera for the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), which covers the energy range of 100 GeV to 30 TeV. The camera is equipped with 265 focal plane modules (FPMs). Each FPM comprises 7 pixels, each…

This paper presents a search for radio transients at a frequency of 73.8 MHz (4 m wavelength) using the all-sky imaging capabilities of the Long Wavelength Demonstrator Array (LWDA). The LWDA was a 16-dipole phased array telescope, located…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory must be capable of issuing fast alerts on variable and transient sources to maximize the scientific return. This will be accomplished by means of a Real-Time Analysis (RTA) pipeline, a key…

This paper reports on the capabilities of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) in detecting high-energy gamma-rays that show significant contributions of hadronic origin. We focus on four sources: RX J1713.7-3946, HESS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 P. Sharma , C. Dubos , S. R. Patel T. Suomijarvi

Micromegas detector is a gas detector with parallel plate structure, and it consists of a conversion gap in which radiations liberate ionization electrons and a thin amplification gap. The signal of the micromegas detector consists of two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-19 Shuang. Zhou , Shengquan. Liu , Peng. Miao , Xinxin. Wang , Feng. Li , Ge. Jin , Zhilei. Zhang , Tianru. Geng

We describe the readout electronics for the STAR Time Projection Chamber. The system is made up of 136,608 channels of waveform digitizer, each sampling 512 time samples at 6-12 Mega-samples per second. The noise level is about 1000…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Anderson , R. Bossingham , F. Bieser , D. Cebra , E. L. Hjort , S. R. Klein , C. Q. Vu , H. Wieman

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to the VHE gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range 30 GeV-100 TeV, which will improve by about one order of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefano Vercellone

A nanosecond time-resolved APD detector system is implemented for Nuclear Resonance Scattering (NRS) experiments in High Energy Photon Source-Test Facility (HEPS-TF) project of China. The detector system consists of three parts: the APD…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-20 Zhen-jie Li , Yi-chao Ma , Qiu-ju Li , Peng Liu , Jin-fan Chang , Yang-fan Zhou

The 499 pixel photomultiplier cameras of the VERITAS gamma ray telescopes are instrumented with 500MHz sampling Flash ADCs. This paper describes a preliminary investigation of the best methods by which to exploit this information so as to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Holder

Optical readout of large Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with multiple Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) amplification stages has shown to provide very interesting performances for high energy particle tracking. Proposed applications for…