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The CAEN V1751 is a new generation of Waveform Digitizer recently introduced by CAEN SpA. It features 8 Channels per board, 10 bit, 1 GS/s using Flash ADCs Waveform Digitizers (or 4 channels at 2 GS/s in Dual Edge Sampling mode) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-03 R. Acciarri , N. Canci , F. Cavanna , A. Cortopassi , M. D'Incecco , G. Mini , F. Pietropaolo , A. Romboli , E. Segreto , A. M. Szelc

We calculate the lifetime of both the o-Ps and the p-Ps positronium annihilation decay $ Ps\to\gamma\gamma$ in the strong circular polarized laser field. We take a strategy of the factorization to separate the effects caused by the Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Yu-Qi Chen , Pei Wu

Future neutrino experiments at low energies such as JUNO or THEIA will use large volume homogeneous liquid scintillator detectors. The optical attenuation length of the liquid is of uttermost importance for the successful realization of…

A compact resonance ionization mass spectrometer is developed using two laser diodes and a quadrupole mass spectrometer to perform trace element analysis of potassium. With the help of a narrow linewidth of the laser diode, the isotope…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 Yoshihiro Iwata , Yoshizumi Inoue , Makoto Minowa

The excited state population of single solid-state emitters is subjected to energy fluctuations around the equilibrium driven by the bath and relaxation through the emission of phonons or photons. Simultaneous measurement of the associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Hendrik Utzat , Moungi G. Bawendi

The many-body system comprising a He nucleus, three electrons, and a positron has been studied using the exact diagonalization technique. The purpose has been to clarify to which extent the system can be considered as a distinguishable…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-05-31 A. Zubiaga , F. Tuomisto , M. J. Puska

In conventional research on the beam gas coulomb scattering (BGCS), only the related beam lifetime using the analytical method is studied. In this paper, using the PIC-MCC method, we not only simulated the beam lifetime but also explored…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Yu Lu-Xin , Gao Wei-Wei , Wang Lin , Li Wei-Min

The combination of plastic scintillators with Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) is widely used for detecting radiation in high-energy astrophysics, particle physics, neutrino physics, or medical physics. An example of application for this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Nicolas De Angelis , Franck Cadoux , Coralie Husi , Merlin Kole , Sławomir Mianowski

Silicon drift detectors (SDDs) revolutionized spectroscopy in fields as diverse as geology and dentistry. For a subset of experiments at ultra-fast, x-ray free-electron lasers (FELs), SDDs can make substantial contributions. Often the…

Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography is a medical imaging technique, based on the detection of two back-to-back {\gamma}-photons generated from radiotracers injected in the body. Its limit is the ability of employed scintillation…

An essential metric for the quality of a particle-identification experiment is its statistical power to discriminate between signal and background. Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is a basic method for this purpose in many nuclear,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-17 Shubham Dutta , Sayan Ghosh , Satyaki Bhattacharya , Satyajit Saha

In this manuscript we report on the scintillation properties and pulse shape discrimination (PSD) performance of new organic glass scintillator. Two cylindrical samples with dimensions of 2x2 inches were tested. Additionally, this two…

In this study, we propose a fast implementation of a Maximum Likelihood Positioning (MLP) algorithm to estimate the energy and identify the active scintillator pixel in staggered layer scintillation detectors for PET. The staggered layer…

Monte Carlo simulation plays an important role in the study of time of flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) prototype. As it can incorporate accurate physical modeling of scintillation detection process, from scintillation light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-17 Ze Chen , Zheng-Guo Hu , Jin-Da Chen , Xiu-Ling Zhang , Zhi-Yu Sun , Wen-Xue Huang , Jian-Song Wang , Zhong-Yan Guo , Guo-Qing Xiao

The advanced imaging and delivery techniques in proton therapy allow conformal high-dose irradiation of the target volume with high accuracy using pencil beam scanning or beam shaping apertures. These irradiation methods increasingly…

A new type of neutron detector, named Stack Structure Solid organic Scintillator (S$^4$), consisting of multi-layer plastic scintillators with capability to suppress low-energy $\gamma$ rays under high-counting rate has been constructed and…

We have observed the relativistic binary pulsar PSR J1141$-$6545 over a period of $\sim$6 years using the Parkes 64 m radio telescope, with a focus on modelling the diffractive intensity scintillations to improve the accuracy of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 D. J. Reardon , W. A. Coles , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , M. Kerr , M. Bailes , N. D. R. Bhat , V. Venkatraman Krishnan

High-precision timing of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) over years to decades is a promising technique for direct detection of gravitational waves at nanohertz frequencies. Time-variable, multi-path scattering in the interstellar medium is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Anne M. Archibald , Vladislav I. Kondratiev , Jason W. T. Hessels , Daniel R. Stinebring

RAndom Temporal Signals (RATS) method has proven to be a useful and versatile method for measuring photoluminescence (PL) dynamics and fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM). Here, we present two fundamental development steps in the method.…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-15 Jiri Junek , Karel Zidek

Pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) is usually achieved using the different fast and slow decay components of inorganic scintillators, such as BaF2, CsI:Tl, etc. However, LaBr3:Ce is considered to not possess different components at room…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-03 Jirong Cang , XinChao Fang , Zhi Zeng , Ming Zeng , Yinong Liu , Zhigang Sun , Ziyun Chen