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Fast Neutron Spectroscopy with a High-pressure Nitrogen-filled Large Volume Spherical Proportional Counter

We present a fast neutron spectroscopy system based on a nitrogen-filled, large volume gaseous detector, the Spherical Proportional Counter. The system has been successfully operated up to gas pressure of 1.5 bar. Neutron energy is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-09 I. Giomataris , I. Katsioulas , P. Knights , I. Manthos , J. Matthews , T. Neep , K. Nikolopoulos , T. Papaevangelou , B. Phoenix , R. Ward

Time and position resolution of high granularity, high counting rate MRPC for the inner zone of the CBM-TOF wall

Multi-gap RPC prototypes with readout on a multi-strip electrode were developed for the small polar angle region of the CBM-TOF subdetector, the most demanding zone in terms of granularity and counting rate. The prototypes are based on low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-12 M. Petriş , D. Bartoş , G. Caragheorgheopol , I. Deppner , J. Frühauf , N. Herrmann , M. Kiš , P-A. Loizeau , M. Petrovici , L. Rǎdulescu , V. Simion , C. Simon

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Sensitivity of the XLZD Rare Event Observatory

The XLZD collaboration is developing a two-phase xenon time projection chamber with an active mass of 60 to 80 t capable of probing the remaining WIMP-nucleon interaction parameter space down to the so-called neutrino fog. In this work we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-01 XLZD Collaboration , J. Aalbers , K. Abe , M. Adrover , S. Ahmed Maouloud , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , L. Althueser , D. W. P. Amaral , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , B. Andrieu , N. Angelides , E. Angelino , B. Antunovic , E. Aprile , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , M. Babicz , D. Bajpai , A. Baker , M. Balzer , J. Bang , E. Barberio , J. W. Bargemann , E. Barillier , A. Basharina-Freshville , L. Baudis , D. Bauer , M. Bazyk , K. Beattie , N. Beaupere , N. F. Bell , L. Bellagamba , T. Benson , A. Bhatti , T. P. Biesiadzinski , R. Biondi , Y. Biondi , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , A. Bismark , C. Boehm , K. Boese , A. Bolotnikov , P. Brás , R. Braun , A. Breskin , C. A. J. Brew , S. Brommer , A. Brown , G. Bruni , R. Budnik , S. Burdin , C. Cai , C. Capelli , G. Carini , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chauvin , A. Chawla , H. Chen , J. J. Cherwinka , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , A. P. Cimental Chavez , K. Clark , A. P. Colijn , D. J. Colling , J. Conrad , M. V. Converse , R. Coronel , D. Costanzo , A. Cottle , G. Cox , J. J. Cuenca-García , D. Curran , D. Cussans , V. D'Andrea , L. C. Daniel Garcia , I. Darlington , S. Dave , A. David , G. J. Davies , M. P. Decowski , A. Deisting , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , C. Di Donato , L. Di Felice , P. Di Gangi , S. Diglio , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , M. Doerenkamp , G. Drexlin , E. Druszkiewicz , C. L. Dunbar , K. Eitel , A. Elykov , R. Engel , S. R. Eriksen , S. Fayer , N. M. Fearon , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , N. Fieldhouse , H. Fischer , H. Flaecher , T. Flehmke , M. Flierman , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , K. Fujikawa , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , R. J. Gaitskell , N. Gallice , M. Galloway , F. Gao , N. Garroum , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , S. Ghosh , R. Giacomobono , R. Gibbons , F. Girard , R. Glade-Beucke , F. Glück , S. Gokhale , L. Grandi , J. Green , J. Grigat , M. G. D. van der Grinten , R. Größle , H. Guan , M. Guida , P. Gyorgy , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. Hall , R. Hammann , V. Hannen , S. Hansmann-Menzemer , N. Hargittai , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , A. Higuera , C. Hils , K. Hiraoka , L. Hoetzsch , M. Hoferichter , G. J. Homenides , N. F. Hood , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , S. Hughes , D. Hunt , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , E. Jacquet , J. Jakob , R. S. James , F. Joerg , S. Jones , A. C. Kaboth , F. Kahlert , A. C. Kamaha , Y. Kaminaga , M. Kara , P. Kavrigin , S. Kazama , M. Keller , P. Kemp-Russell , D. Khaitan , P. Kharbanda , B. Kilminster , J. Kim , R. Kirk , M. Kleifges , M. Klute , M. Kobayashi , D. Kodroff , D. Koke , A. Kopec , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , B. von Krosigk , V. A. Kudryavtsev , F. Kuger , N. Kurita , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , C. Lawes , J. Lee , B. Lehnert , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , L. Levinson , A. Li , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , Z. Liang , J. Lin , Y. -T. Lin , S. Lindemann , S. Linden , M. Lindner , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , K. Liu , J. Loizeau , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , M. Loutit , C. Lu , G. M. Lucchetti , T. Luce , S. Luitz , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , B. Maier , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , R. L. Mannino , F. Marignetti , T. Marley , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , E. Masson , S. Mastroianni , C. Maupin , C. McCabe , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. B. McLaughlin , A. Melchiorre , J. Menéndez , M. Messina , E. H. Miller , B. Milosovic , S. Milutinovic , K. Miuchi , R. Miyata , E. Mizrachi , A. Molinario , C. M. B. Monteiro , M. E. Monzani , K. Morå , S. Moriyama , E. Morrison , E. Morteau , Y. Mosbacher , B. J. Mount , J. Müller , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , M. Murra , A. Naylor , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , J. L. Newstead , A. Nguyen , K. Ni , C. O'Hare , U. Oberlack , M. Obradovic , I. Olcina , K. C. 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Xu , M. Yamashita , L. Yang , J. Ye , M. Yeh , B. Yu , G. Zavattini , W. Zha , M. Zhong , K. Zuber

Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chambers in the U.S

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors are ideally suited for studying neutrino interactions and probing the parameters that characterize neutrino oscillations. The ability to drift ionization particles over long distances…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-02-04 M. Soderberg

DMTPC: Dark matter detection with directional sensitivity

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) experiment uses CF_4 gas at low pressure (0.1 atm) to search for the directional signature of Galactic WIMP dark matter. We describe the DMTPC apparatus and summarize recent results from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-20 J. B. R. Battat , S. Ahlen , T. Caldwell , C. Deaconu , D. Dujmic , W. Fedus , P. Fisher , F. Golub , S. Henderson , A. Inglis , A. Kaboth , G. Kohse , R. Lanza , A. Lee , J. Lopez , J. Monroe , T. Sahin , G. Sciolla , N. Skvorodnev , H. Tomita , H. Wellenstein , I. Wolfe , R. Yamamoto , H. Yegoryan

Performance of the High-Angle Time Projection Chambers in the Upgraded T2K Off-Axis Near Detector

The off-axis magnetic near detector of the T2K experiment has undergone a significant upgrade, including the construction and installation of two new Time Projection Chambers featuring innovative resistive Micromegas technology and a field…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-25 K. Aivazelis , D. Attié , P. Billoir , A. Blanchet , G. Bortolato , S. Bolognesi , R. Boullon , N. F. Calabria , D. Calvet , M. P. Casado , M. G. Catanesi , M. Cicerchia , G. Cogo , G. Collazuol , P. Colas , D. Cotte , D. D'Ago , C. Dalmazzone , T. Daret , R. de Oliveira , A. Delbart , J. Dumarchez , K. Dygnarowicz , S. Emery-Schrenk , A. Ershova , G. Eurin , M. Feltre , C. Forza , A. N. Gacino Olmedo , A. Gambalonga , C. Giganti , F. Gramegna , P. Granger , R. Guida , M. Guigue , S. Hassani , D. Henaff , F. Iacob , C. Jesús-Valls , S. Joshi , R. Kurjata , M. Lamoureux , J. F. Laporte , M. Lehuraux , S. Levorato , A. Longhin , T. Lux , L. Magaletti , T. Marchi , D. Marchesini , L. Mareso , M. Mattiazzi , M. Mezzetto , B. Mehl , E. Miller , L. Mellet , L. Munteanu , Q. V. Nguyen , N. Ospina , Y. Orain , R. Palumbo , C. Pastore , J. -M. Parraud , E. Pierre , C. Pio , O. Pizzirusso , B. Popov , F. Pupilli , E. Radicioni , Ch. Riccio , L. Rinaldi , F. Rossi , S. Roth , L. Russo , S. Russo , A. Rychter , W. Saenz Arevalo , L. Scomparin , Ph. Schune , D. Smyczek , R. Spina , J. Steinmann , S. Suvorov , N. Thamm , D. Terront , A. Teixeira , F. Toussenel , V. Valentino , D. Vargas , M. Varghese , G. Vasseur , C. Vuillemin , U. Virginet , Ch. Winterstein , U. Yevarouskaya , M. Ziembicki , M. Zito

Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber: Recent R&D Results

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber collaboration recently reported a dark matter limit obtained with a 10 liter time projection chamber filled with CF4 gas. The 10 liter detector was capable of 2D tracking (perpendicular to the drift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. B. R. Battat , S. Ahlen , M. Chernicoff , C. Deaconu , D. Dujmic , A. Dushkin , P. Fisher , S. Henderson , A. Inglis , A. Kaboth , L. Kirsch , J. P. Lopez , J. Monroe , H. Ouyang , G. Sciolla , H. Tomita , H. Wellenstein

First Oscillation Results for the T2K Experiment

T2K is a long baseline high intensity neutrino oscillation experiment employing an off-axis design to search for the as yet unobserved appearance of \nu_e neutrinos in a \nu_{\mu} beam. The neutrino beam originates at the J-PARC facility in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Mark Hartz

Particle production and identification for the T10 secondary beamline of the CERN East Area

The particle composition of the T10 beam line in the renovated East Hall at CERN has been measured using several experimental techniques and detectors: pressure scans on a threshold Cherenkov counter, a lead-glass calorimeter,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-04 Maarten van Dijk , Ahsan Hayat , Dipanwita Banerjee , Johannes Bernhard , Berare Gokturk , Laurie Nevay , Jorgen Petersen , Martin Schwinzerl

Test beam results with prototypes for the new Cylindrical GEM Inner Tracker of the BESIII experiment

A cylindrical GEM tracker is under construction in order to replace and improve the inner tracking system of the BESIII experiment. Tests with planar chamber prototypes were carried out on the H4 beam line of SPS (CERN) with muons of 150…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-14 L. Lavezzi , M. Alexeev , A. Amoroso , R. Baldini Ferroli , M. Bertani , D. Bettoni , F. Bianchi , A. Calcaterra , N. Canale , M. Capodiferro , V. Carassiti , S. Cerioni , JY. Chai , S. Chiozzi , G. Cibinetto , F. Cossio , A. Cotta Ramusino , F. De Mori , M. Destefanis , J. Dong , F. Evangelisti , R. Farinelli , L. Fava , G. Felici , E. Fioravanti , I. Garzia , M. Gatta , M. Greco , CY. Leng , H. Li , M. Maggiora , R. Malaguti , S. Marcello , M. Melchiorri , G. Mezzadri , M. Mignone , G. Morello , S. Pacetti , P. Patteri , J. Pellegrino , A. Pelosi , A. Rivetti , M. D. Rolo , M. Savrie' , M. Scodeggio , E. Soldani , S. Sosio , S. Spataro , E. Tskhadadze , S. Verma , R. Wheadon , L. Yan

PandaX-III: Searching for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with High Pressure $^{136}$Xe Gas Time Projection Chambers

Searching for the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) is now regarded as the topmost promising technique to explore the nature of neutrinos after the discovery of neutrino masses in oscillation experiments. PandaX-III (Particle And…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-31 Xun Chen , Changbo Fu , Javier Galan , Karl Giboni , Franco Giuliani , Linghui Gu , Ke Han , Xiangdong Ji , Heng Lin , Jianglai Liu , Kaixiang Ni , Hiroki Kusano , Xiangxiang Ren , Shaobo Wang , Yong Yang , Dan Zhang , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Xiangming Sun , Shouyang Hu , Siyu Jian , Xinglong Li , Xiaomei Li , Hao Liang , Huanqiao Zhang , Mingrui Zhao , Jing Zhou , Yajun Mao , Hao Qiao , Siguang Wang , Ying Yuan , Meng Wang , Amir N. Khan , Neill Raper , Jian Tang , Wei Wang , Jianing Dong , Changqing Feng , Chen Li , Jianbei Liu , Shubin Liu , Xiaolian Wang , Danyang Zhu , Juan F. Castel , Susana Cebrián , Theopisti Dafni , Javier G. Garza , Igor G. Irastorza , Francisco J. Iguaz , Gloria Luzón , Hector Mirallas , Stephan Aune , Eric Berthoumieux , Yann Bedfer , Denis Calvet , Nicole d'Hose , Alain Delbart , Maria Diakaki , Esther Ferrer-Ribas , Andrea Ferrero , Fabienne Kunne , Damien Neyret , Thomas Papaevangelou , Franck Sabatié , Maxence Vanderbroucke , Andi Tan , Wick Haxton , Yuan Mei , Chinorat Kobdaj , Yu-Peng Yan

The ALICE TPC: Optimization of the Performance in Run 2 and Developments for the Future

The Time Projection Chamber is the main tracking and particle identification detector of the ALICE experiment. The high luminosities delivered by the CERN LHC in Run 2 (2015-2018) posed new challenges in terms of detector performance and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-10 Ernst Hellbär

Gaseous time projection chambers for rare event detection: Results from the T-REX project. I. Double beta decay

As part of the T-REX project, a number of R&D and prototyping activities have been carried out during the last years to explore the applicability of gaseous Micromegas-read TPCs in rare event searches like double beta decay (DBD), axion…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-19 I. G. Irastorza , F. Aznar , J. Castel , S. Cebrián , T. Dafni , J. Galán , J. A. García , J. G. Garza , H. Gómez , D. C. Herrera , F. J. Iguaz , G. Luzón , H. Mirallas , E. Ruiz , L. Seguí , A. Tomás

Towards Sealed Resistive Plate Chambers

The mitigation of human-induced climate change is of crucial importance for the sustainability of humankind. For this aim the RPC community has exerted considerable effort over the last decade to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Lopes P. Assis , A. Blanco , P. Fonte , M. Pimenta

TPC-like readout for thermal neutron detection using a GEM-detector

Spatial resolution of less than 200 um is challenging for thermal neutron detection. A novel readout scheme based on the time-projection-chamber (TPC) concept is used in a gaseous electron multiplier (GEM) detector. Thermal neutrons are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-22 Bernhard Flierl , Otmar Biebel , Ralf Hertenberger , Karl Zeitelhack

On the determination of the interaction time of GeV neutrinos in large argon gas TPCs

Next-generation megawatt-scale neutrino beams open the way to studying neutrino-nucleus scattering using gaseous targets for the first time. This represents an opportunity to improve the knowledge of neutrino cross sections in the energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-21 A. Saá-Hernández , D. González-Díaz , J. Martín-Albo , M. Tuzi , P. Amedo , J. Baldonedo , C. Benítez , S. Bounasser , E. Casarejos , J. Collazo , A. Fernández-Prieto , D. J. Fernández-Posada , R. Hafeji , S. Leardini , D. Rodas-Rodríguez , A. L. Saborido , A. Segade , A. Slater

Precision Measurements of the PMNS Parameters with T2K Data

T2K is a long baseline neutrino experiment which exploits a neutrino and antineutrino beam at JPARC to perform precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters $\Delta {\rm m}^2_{\rm 32}$, $\sin^2 \theta_{23}$ (besides the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-07-15 Ajmi Ali

Search for Light Dark Matter with NEWS-G at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane Using a Methane Target

The NEWS-G direct detection experiment uses spherical proportional counters to search for light dark matter candidates. New results from a 10 day physics run with a $135\,\mathrm{cm}$ in diameter spherical proportional counter at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-15 M. M. Arora , L. Balogh , C. Beaufort , A. Brossard , M. Chapellier , J. Clarke , E. C. Corcoran , J. -M. Coquillat , A. Dastgheibi-Fard , Y. Deng , D. Durnford , C. Garrah , G. Gerbier , I. Giomataris , G. Giroux , P. Gorel , M. Gros , P. Gros , O. Guillaudin , E. W. Hoppe , I. Katsioulas , F. Kelly , P. Knights , P. Lautridou , A. Makowski , I. Manthos , R. D. Martin , J. Matthews , H. M. McCallum , H. Meadows , L. Millins , J. -F. Muraz , T. Neep , K. Nikolopoulos , N. Panchal , M. -C. Piro , N. Rowe , D. Santos , G. Savvidis , I. Savvidis , D. Spathara , F. Vazquez de Sola Fernandez , R. Ward

High-resolution ion pulse ionization chamber with air filling for the Rn-222 decays detection

The construction and characteristics of the cylindrical ion pulse ionization chamber (CIPIC) with a working volume of 3.2 L are described. The chamber is intended to register alpha-particles from the $^{222}$Rn and its daughter's decays in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-20 Yu. M. Gavrilyuk , A. M. Gangapshev , A. M. Gezhaev , R. A. Etezov , V. V. Kazalov , V. V. Kuzminov , S. I. Panasenko , S. S. Ratkevich , D. A. Tekueva , S. P. Yakimenko

The search for Light Dark Matter with NEWS-G

The NEWS-G direct dark matter search experiment uses spherical proportional counters (SPC) with light noble gases to explore low WIMP masses. The first results obtained with an SPC prototype operated with Ne gas at the Laboratoire…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-02 Daniel Durnford , Marie-Cécile Piro