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The Time of Flight (TOF) system of the AMS experiment provides the fast trigger to the detector and measures the crossing particle direction, velocity and charge. AMS was operated aboard of the shuttle Discovery on June 1998 (NASA STS-91…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Baldini , L. Brocco , D. Casadei , G. Castellini , F. Cindolo , A. Contin , G. Laurenti , G. Levi , F. Palmonari , A. Zichichi

The Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey (GRAMS) project is a proposed next-generation balloon/satellite mission targeting both MeV gamma-ray observations and antimatter-based dark matter searches. A cost-effective, large-scale Liquid Argon Time…

Measurement of the Time-of-Flight (TOF) of the 511 keV gammas brings an important reduction of statistical noise in the PET image, with higher precision time measurements producing clearer images. Scintillating crystals are used to convert…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-03 K. Doroud , Z. Liu , M. C. S. Williams

Time of Flight methods have been rapidly developed and used in many experiments recently for determination of particle direction, identification of particles and energy resolutions. This paper describes a method of time-mark determination…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-19 Ali Yilmaz

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), whose final version AMS-02 is to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) for at least 3 years, is a detector designed to measure charged cosmic ray spectra with energies up to the TeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-05 Luísa Arruda , Fernando Barão , Rui Pereira

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a state of the art particle physics experiment for the extraterrestrial study of antimatter, matter and missing matter. AMS successfully completed the precursor STS91 Discovery flight (June 2nd-12th,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Battiston

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a particle detector designed to detect antimatter. During the 10-day test flight on the space shuttle in June 1998, AMS detected $10^8$ events. Upon analysis, no antimatter was found and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Huey A. Huang

Time of flight system (TOF) based on MRPC technology is widely used in modern physics experiments, and it also plays an important role in particle identification. With the increase of accelerator energy and luminosity, TOF system is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-24 Yi Wang , Qiunan Zhang , Dong Han , Fuyue Wang , Yancheng Yu , Pengfei Lyu , Yuanjing Li

In this work we explore readout architectures for the simultaneous high-resolution timing and bidimensional tracking of charged particles with Resistive Plate Chambers (TOF-tracker) and for the accurate detection of gamma rays for PET…

The low cost and high resolution Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) opens up a new possibility to find an efficient alternative detector for the Time of Flight (TOF) based Positron Emission Tomography, where the sensitivity of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Banerjee , A. Roy , S. Biswas , S. Chattopadhyay , G. Das , S. Pal

A high-performance time-of-flight (TOF) MRPC wall is being built for the CBM experiment at FAIR for charged hadron identification. The detector control system for the TOF system will be based on EPICS. All components like power supplies for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 S. Dong , G. M. Huang , J. Frühauf , P. -A. Loizeau , I. Deppner , N. Herrmann , D. Wang

We study a simple modification to the conventional time of flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) where a \emph{variable} and (pseudo)-\emph{random} pulsing rate is used which allows for traces from different pulses to overlap. This modification…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Morteza Ibrahimi , Andrea Montanari , George S Moore

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…

A precision measurement of the cosmic-ray positron spectrum may help to solve the puzzle of the nature of dark matter. Pairwise annihilation of neutralinos, predicted by some supersymmetric extensions to the standard model of particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 H. Gast , R. Greim , T. Kirn , G. Roper Yearwood , S. Schael

The Belle II barrel region is instrumented with the Time of Propagation (TOP) particle identification system based on sixteen fused-silica bars arranged around the interaction point acting as Cherenkov radiator. Due to the mechanical design…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-16 Oskar Hartbrich , Umberto Tamponi , Gary S. Varner

The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been recognized as a potentially powerful detector for the search of WIMPs by measuring the directions of nuclear recoils, in which the most convincing signature of WIMPs, caused by the Earth's motion…

Lithium-drifted silicon [Si(Li)] has been used for decades as an ionizing radiation detector in nuclear, particle, and astrophysical experiments, though such detectors have frequently been limited to small sizes (few cm$^2$) and cryogenic…

The sampling strategy of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) make TESS light curves extremely valuable to investigate high cadence optical variability of AGN. However, because the TESS instrument was primarily designed for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 Krista Lynne Smith , Lia Sartori

Intraoperative Gamma Probe (IPG) remains the current gold standard modality for sentinel lymph node identification and tumor removal in cancer patients. However, even alongside the optical dyes they do not meet with <5% false negative rates…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 S. Sajedi , L. Blackberg , S. Majewski , H. Sabet

This paper describes the use of the time-of-flight (TOF) technique as a particle identification method for the HERMES experiment. The time-of-flight is measured by two 1x4 m^2 scintillation hodoscopes that initially were designed for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 HERMES Collaboration , A. Airapetian , N. Akopov , M. Amarian , H. Avakian , A. Avetissian , E. Avetisyan , B. W. Filippone , R. Kaiser , H. Zohrabian