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High-purity germanium (HPGe) crystals underpin some of the most sensitive detectors used in fundamental physics and other high-resolution radiation-sensing applications. Despite their importance, the supply of detector-grade HPGe remains…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Athul Prem , Dongming Mei , Sanjay Bhattarai , Narayan Budhathoki , Sunil Chhetri

Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon (a-Si:H) is a material well known for its intrinsic radiation hardness and is primarily utilized in solar cells as well as for particle detection and dosimetry. Planar p-i-n diode detectors are fabricated…

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) has remarkable radiation resistance properties and can be deposited on a lot of different substrates. A-Si:H based particle detectors have been built since mid 1980s as planar p-i-n or Schottky diode…

High-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors used for low-background gamma ray spectrometry are usually operated under either a fairly low overburden of the order of one meter of water equivalent (mw.e.) or a high overburden of the order of…

Nuclear recoil measurements with high-purity Germanium detectors are very promising to directly detect dark matter candidates. The main background sources in such experiments are natural radioactivity and microphonic noise. Digital pulse…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Baudis , J. Hellmig , H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , Y. Ramachers , J. W. Hammer , A. Mayer

Parity is a key observable in nuclear spectroscopy. Linear polarization measurements of $\gamma$-rays are a probe to access the parities of energy levels. Utilizing the segmentation of detectors in the Segmented Germanium Array (SeGA) at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 D. Miller , A. Chester , V. Moeller , K. Starosta , C. Vaman , D. Weisshaar

GRETA, the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array, is an array of highly-segmented HPGe detectors designed to track gamma-rays emitted in beam-physics experiments. Its high detection efficiency and state-of-the-art position resolution make it…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-05 Robert Crabbs , I-Yang Lee , Kai Vetter

A probability model has been presented for understanding the operation of an array of encapsulated germanium detectors generally known as composite detector. The addback mode of operation of a composite detector has been described…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-04-16 Ritesh Kshetri

Identifying the constituting materials of concealed objects is crucial in a wide range of sectors, such as medical imaging, geophysics, nonproliferation, national security investigations, and so on. Existing methods face limitations,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Oleg Korobkin , Marc L. Klasky , Ajeeta Khatiwada , Michael McCann

The first true coaxial 18-fold segmented n-type HPGe prototype detector produced by Canberra-France for the GERDA neutrinoless double beta-decay project was tested both at Canberra-France and at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Abt , A. Caldwell , D. Gutknecht , K. Kröninger , M. Lampert , X. Liu , B. Majorovits , D. Quirion , F. Stelzer , P. Wendling

A new ultra-low background high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector has been installed at the Kamioka underground experimental site. The background count rate in the energy range from 40 keV to 2700 keV is about 25% lower than that of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-05 K. Ichimura , H. Ikeda , Y. Kishimoto , M. Kurasawa , A. A. Suzuki , Y. Gando , M. Ikeda , K. Hosokawa , H. Sekiya , H. Ito , A. Minamino , S. Suzuki

We report on the systematic study of a single-gas-electron-multiplication (GEM) loaded gaseous detector developed for precision measurements of high-energy particle beams and dose-verification measurements. In the present study, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-29 Kyong Sei Lee , Byungsik Hong , Sang Yeol Kim , Sung Keun Park

We describe a new high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector setup for low-background {\gamma}-ray spectrometry. The GeMSE facility (Germanium Material and meteorite Screening Experiment) is dedicated to material screening for rare event…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-06 M. v. Sivers , B. A. Hofmann , Å. V. Rosén , M. Schumann

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

Attosecond light sources based on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) constitute to date the only table-top solution for producing coherent broadband radiation covering the spectral range from the extreme ultraviolet to the soft X-rays.…

High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors are powerful detectors for gamma-ray spectroscopy. The sensitivity to low-intensity gamma-ray peaks is often hindered by the presence of Compton continuum distributions, originated by gamma-rays…

A high efficiency, low background counting setup has been made at TIFR consisting of a special HPGe detector ($\sim$ 70%) surrounded by a low activity copper+lead shield. Detailed measurements are performed with point and extended geometry…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-08-21 N. Dokania , V. Singh , S. Mathimalar , V. Nanal , S. Pal , R. G. Pillay

In this work we present the characterization of a Broad Energy Germanium (BEGe) type High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector, with a carbon fiber entrance window thickness of 0.6 mm and an active area of 6305 mm2, operated at shallow depth (~…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-20 O. Fawwaz , H. Shams , F. Arneodo , A. Di Giovanni

The direct detection of MeV-scale dark matter (DM) particles hinges on achieving an exceptionally low energy detection threshold. Germanium (Ge) detectors, meticulously tailored with precise impurity compositions, hold the potential to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-26 Dongming Mei

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a powerful probe of electron dynamics on attosecond to femtosecond timescales and has been successfully used to detect electronic and structural changes in solid-state quantum materials, including…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Daniel A. Rehn , Towfiq Ahmed , Jinkyoung Yoo , Rohit Prasankumar , Jian-Xin Zhu