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The GammaTPC Gamma-Ray Telescope Concept

We present GammaTPC, a transformative 0.1-10 MeV $\gamma$-ray instrument concept featuring a tracker using a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) technology with the novel GAMPix high spatial resolution and ultra low power charge…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Tom Shutt , Bahrudin Trbalic , Eric Charles , Niccolo Di Lalla , Oliver Hitchcock , Sam Jett , Ryan Linehan , Steffen Luitz , Greg Madejski , Aldo Peña-Perez , Yun-Tse Tsai

Development and Performance of a Sealed Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber

The liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC) technology is probing a wide range of dark matter masses from sub-GeV to a few TeV. To further improve its sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter and its application in reactor neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-22 Yuehuan Wei , Jianyu Long , Francesco Lombardi , Zhiheng Jiang , Jingqiang Ye , Kaixuan Ni

Spatial resolution of a GEM readout TPC using the charge dispersion signal

A large volume Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is being considered for the central charged particle tracker for the detector for the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC). To meet the ILC-TPC spatial resolution challenge of ~100…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Boudjemline , M. S. Dixit , J. -P. Martin , K. Sachs

Study of ionization signals in a TPC filled with a mixture of liquid Argon and Nitrogen

In this paper we report on the evidence for ionization track signals from cosmic ray muons and Compton electrons in a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) filled with liquid Argon and doped with different fractions of Nitrogen. This study has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Ereditato , M. Hess , S. Janos , I. Kreslo , L. Martinez , M. Messina , U. Moser , B. Rossi , H. -U. Shuetz , M. Zeller

GAMPix: a novel fine-grained, low-noise and ultra-low power pixelated charge readout for TPCs

We report on the development of a novel pixel charge readout system, Grid Activated Multi-scale pixel readout (GAMPix), which is under development for use in the GammaTPC gamma ray instrument concept. GammaTPC is being developed to optimize…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-05 Tom Shutt , Bahrudin Trbalic , Aldo Pena-Perez , Steffen Luitz , Mark Convery , Angelo Dragone , Lorenzo Rota , Dietrich R. Freytag , Dionisio Doering , Filippo Mele , Miriam Moore , Hiro Tanaka , Yun-Tse Tsai

A Concept for a Scalable 2 kTon Liquid Argon TPC Detector for Astroparticle Physics

This paper describes the results of a study on the general lines, main construction criteria, crucial points, parameters and required preliminary R&D activities for the construction of a LAr (liquid argon) imaging detector with active mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Cline , F. Sergiampietri

Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs II. Data/Simulation Comparison and Performance in MicroBooNE

The single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) provides a large amount of detailed information in the form of fine-grained drifted ionization charge from particle traces. To fully utilize this information, the deposited…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-17 MicroBooNE collaboration , C. Adams , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , M. Bass , F. Bay , A. Bhat , K. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , R. Carr , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , H. Chen , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. Cohen , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , A. Diaz , M. Dolce , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , J. J. Evans , A. A. Fadeeva , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , G. T. Garvey , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , J. Ho , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , Y. -J. Jwa , D. Kaleko , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , Y. Li , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , S. Marcocci , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , A. Mastbaum , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , R. Murrells , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Pandey , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , L. Rochester , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , M. Thomson , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , D. A. Wickremasinghe , K. Wierman , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , B. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

The Forward TPC system of the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN: a tandem TPC concept

This paper presents the Forward Time Projection Chamber (FTPC) system of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator. This TPC system applies a novel tandem-TPC design to reduce the background originating from particle tracks not…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-20 Brant Rumberger , Antoni Aduszkiewicz , Jan Boissevain , Magdalena Kuich , András László , Yoshikazu Nagai , László Oláh , Piotr Podlaski , Dezső Varga , Martin Wensveen , Eric D. Zimmerman

Commissioning of a hybrid readout TPC test set-up and gas gain simulations

A hybrid readout Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has a simultaneous optical- and charge readout. The optical readout provides 2D images of particle tracks in the active volume, whilst the charge readout provides additional information on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Alexander Deisting

Self-compensating Light Calorimetry with Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber for GeV Neutrino Physics

The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) is a powerful dual calorimeter capable of estimating particle energy from both ionization charge and scintillation light. Our study shows that, due to the recombination luminescence, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-17 Xuyang Ning , Wei Shi , Chao Zhang , Ciro Riccio , Jay Hyun Jo

Optimizing the Hit Finding Algorithm for Liquid Argon TPC Neutrino Detectors Using Parallel Architectures

Neutrinos are particles that interact rarely, so identifying them requires large detectors which produce lots of data. Processing this data with the computing power available is becoming even more difficult as the detectors increase in size…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-02 Sophie Berkman , Giuseppe Cerati , Kyle Knoepfel , Marc Mengel , Allison Reinsvold Hall , Michael Wang , Brian Gravelle , Boyana Norris

Precise 3D track reconstruction algorithm for the ICARUS T600 liquid argon time projection chamber detector

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors offer charged particle imaging capability with remarkable spatial resolution. Precise event reconstruction procedures are critical in order to fully exploit the potential of this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-03-26 M. Antonello , B. Baibussinov , P. Benetti , E. Calligarich , N. Canci , S. Centro , A. Cesana , K. Cieslik , D. B. Cline , A. G. Cocco , A. Dabrowska , D. Dequal , A. Dermenev , R. Dolfini , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , D. Gibin , S. Gninenko , A. Guglielmi , M. Haranczyk , J. Holeczek , A. Ivashkin , J. Kisiel , I. Kochanek , J. Lagoda , S. Mania , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , C. Montanari , S. Otwinowski , A. Piazzoli , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , P. Plonski , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , A. Scaramelli , E. Segreto , F. Sergiampietri , D. Stefan , J. Stepaniak , R. Sulej , M. Szarska , M. Terrani , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , H. Wang , X. Yang , A. Zalewska , K. Zaremba

A Large-Area Optical Time Projection Chamber for Hard X-ray Polarimetry with Directional Imaging of Low-Energy Electron Recoils

We report on the development of a large-volume, wide field-of-view time projection chamber (TPC) for X-ray polarimetry, featuring a triple-GEM amplification stage and optical readout. Originally developed within the CYGNO program for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Davide Fiorina , Elisabetta Baracchini , Giorgio Dho , Paolo Soffitta , Samuele Torelli , David J. M. Marques , Enrico Costa , Sergio Fabiani , Fabio Muleri , Giovanni Mazzitelli , Atul Prajapati

Performances of a GEM-based Time Projection Chamber prototype for the AMADEUS experiment

A large number of high-energy and heavy-ion experiments successfully used Time Projection Chamber (TPC) as central tracker and particle identification detector. However, the performance requirements on TPC for new high-rate particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-02-14 M. Poli Lener , M. Bazzi , G. Corradi , C. Curceanu , A. D'Uffizi , C. Paglia , A. Romero Vidal , E. Sbardella , A. Scordo , D. Tagnani , J. Zmeskal

A new, very massive modular Liquid Argon Imaging Chamber to detect low energy off-axis neutrinos from the CNGS beam. (Project MODULAr)

The paper is considering an opportunity for the CERN/GranSasso (CNGS) neutrino complex, concurrent time-wise with T2K and NOvA, to search for theta_13 oscillations and CP violation. Compared with large water Cherenkov (T2K) and fine grained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Baibussinov , M. Baldo Ceolin , G. Battistoni , P. Benetti , A. Borio , E. Calligarich , M. Cambiaghi , F. Cavanna , S. Centro , A. G. Cocco , R. Dolfini , A. Gigli Berzolari , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , G. Mannocchi , F. Mauri , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , C. Montanari , O. Palamara , L. Periale , A. Piazzoli , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , G. Satta , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli

A 1 m$^3$ Gas Time Projection Chamber with Optical Readout for Directional Dark Matter Searches: the CYGNO Experiment

The aim of the CYGNO project is the construction and operation of a 1~m$^3$ gas TPC for directional dark matter searches and coherent neutrino scattering measurements, as a prototype toward the 100-1000~m$^3$ (0.15-1.5 tons) CYGNUS network…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-14 E. Baracchini , R. Bedogni , F. Bellini , L. Benussi , S. Bianco , C. Capoccia , M. Caponero , G. Cavoto , I. A. Costa , E. Di Marco , G. D'Imperio , F. Iacoangeli , G. Maccarone , M. Marafini , G. Mazzitelli , A. Messina , A. Orlandi , E. Paoletti , L. Passamonti , A. Pelosi , F. Petrucci , D. Piccolo , D. Pierluigi , D. Pinci , F. Renga , A. Russo , G. Saviano , S. Tomassini

First demonstration of $\mathcal{O}(1\,\text{ns})$ timing resolution in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab, which collected data from 2015 to 2021. MicroBooNE's liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is accompanied by a photon detection system…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-31 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , O. Alterkait , D. Andrade Aldana , J. Anthony , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , G. Barr , J. Barrow , V. Basque , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , M. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , J. Y. Book , L. Camilleri , Y. Cao , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , A. Devitt , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , R. Fine , O. G. Finnerud , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , O. Hen , R. Hicks , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , Z. Imani , B. Irwin , R. Itay , C. James , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , D. Kalra , N. Kamp , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , M. B. Leibovitch , I. Lepetic , J. -Y. Li , K. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , J. Mousseau , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , I. Ponce-Pinto , I. Pophale , S. Prince , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolph von Rohr , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , W. Tang , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , K. Wresilo , N. Wright , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

LArTPC hit-based topology classification with quantum machine learning and symmetry

We present a new approach to separate track-like and shower-like topologies in liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiments for neutrino physics using quantum machine learning. Effective reconstruction of neutrino events in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-25 Callum Duffy , Marcin Jastrzebski , Stefano Vergani , Leigh H. Whitehead , Ryan Cross , Andrew Blake , Sarah Malik , John Marshall

A deep-learning based raw waveform region-of-interest finder for the liquid argon time projection chamber

The liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector technology has an excellent capability to measure properties of low-energy neutrinos produced by the sun and supernovae and to look for exotic physics at very low energies. In order…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-14 ArgoNeuT Collaboration , R. Acciarri , B. Baller , V. Basque , C. Bromberg , F. Cavanna , D. Edmunds , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. Fleming , P. Green , C. James , I. Lepetic , X. Luo , O. Palamara , G. Scanavini , M. Soderberg , J. Spitz , A. M. Szelc , L. Uboldi , M. H. L. S. Wang , W. Wu , T. Yang

Characterization of resistive Micromegas detectors for the upgrade of the T2K Near Detector Time Projection Chambers

The second phase of the T2K experiment is expected to start data taking in autumn 2022. An upgrade of the Near Detector (ND280) is under development and includes the construction of two new Time Projection Chambers called High-Angle TPC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-05 D. Attié , M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak , P. Billoir , A. Blanchet , A. Blondel , S. Bolognesi , D. Calvet , M. G. Catanesi , M. Cicerchia , G. Cogo , P. Colas , G. Collazuol , A. Delbart , J. Dumarchez , S. Emery-Schrenk , M. Feltre , C. Giganti , F. Gramegna , M. Grassi , M. Guigue , P. Hamacher-Baumann , S. Hassani , F. Iacob , C. Jesús-Valls , R. Kurjata , M. Lamoureux , M. Lehuraux , A. Longhin , T. Lux , L. Magaletti , T. Marchi , A. Maurel , L. Mellet , M. Mezzetto , L. Munteanu , Q. V. Nguyen , Y. Orain , M. Pari , J. -M. Parraud , C. Pastore , A. Pepato , E. Pierre , B. Popov , H. Przybiliski , T. Radermacher , E. Radicioni , M. Riallot , S. Roth , A. Rychter , L. Scomparin , J. Steinmann , S. Suvorov , J. Swierblewski , D. Terront , N. Thamm , F. Toussenel , V. Valentino , G. Vasseur , U. Yevarouskaya , M. Ziembicki , M. Zito