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In analog neuromorphic chips, designers can embed computing primitives in the intrinsic physical properties of devices and circuits, heavily reducing device count and energy consumption, and enabling high parallelism, because all devices…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Tommaso Rizzo , Sebastiano Strangio , Alessandro Catania , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We describe the design of a Thomson scattering (TS) diagnostic to be used on the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART). SMART is a spherical tokamak being commissioned in Spain that aims to explore positive triangularity (PT) and negative…

Resistive Silicon Detectors (RSD, also known as AC-LGAD) are innovative silicon sensors, based on the LGAD technology, characterized by a continuous gain layer that spreads across the whole sensor active area. RSDs are very promising…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-07 F. Siviero , F. Giobergia , L. Menzio , F. Miserocchi , M. Tornago , R. Arcidiacono , N. Cartiglia , M. Costa , M. Ferrero , G. Gioachin , M. Mandurrino , V. Sola

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks have penetrated healthcare applications where real-time requirements and edge computing capabilities are essential. Gait analysis that detects abnormal steps to prevent patients from falling is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani , Levent Aksoy , Mohammad Eslami , Jaan Raik , Alar Kuusik

The novel SoLAr concept aims to extend sensitivities of liquid-argon neutrino detectors down to the MeV scale for next-generation detectors. SoLAr plans to accomplish this with a liquid-argon time projection chamber that employs an anode…

We present the first characterization results of Timespot1, an ASIC designed in CMOS 28 nm technology, featuring a $32 \times 32$ pixel matrix with a pitch of $55 ~ \mu m$. Timespot1 is the first small-size prototype, conceived to readout…

The Time Projection Chamber of the ALICE Experiment has been installed in the experimental setup in the underground area at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. The Alice TPC ReadOut (ALTRO) chip implements intelligent signal…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-10-06 C. Lippmann , the ALICE TPC collaboration

The SALSA chip is a future readout ASIC foreseen for the MPGD detectors, developed in the framework of the EIC collider project, to equip the MPGD trackers of the EPIC experiment. It is designed to be versatile, to be adapted to other…

Thin-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) with a 1 mm gap size are introduced in the Phase-II ATLAS upgrade. Smaller avalanche charge due to the reduced gap size raises concerns for signal integrity. This work focuses on the RPC signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-11 Zirui Liu , Xiangyu Xie , Pingxin Zhang , Chunhao Tian , Yongjie Sun

The Multi-channel Intergrated Zone-sampling Analogue-memory based Readout (MIZAR) ASIC is a new type of front-end electronics which has been developed for the detection of the optical Cherenkov signals by Extensive Air Showers directly…

The upgrade of ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter (LAr) Phase-1 trigger requires high-speed, low-latency data transmission to read out the Lar Trigger Digitizer Board (LTDB). A dual-channel transmitter ASIC LOCx2 have been designed and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-04 Zhi-yue Wang , Tian-kuan Liu , Qi-jie Tang , Yi Feng , Jian Wang

This paper presents the NSX front-end ASIC, being developed to read charge signals from the HEMA and WFM X-ray detectors for the STROBE-X mission. The ASIC reads out signals from up to 64 anodes of linear Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs).…

The small-strip Thin Gap Chamber (sTGC) will be used for both triggering and precision tracking purposes in the upgrade of the ATLAS forward muon spectrometer. Both sTGC pad and strip detectors are readout by a Trigger Data Serializer (TDS)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-14 Jinhong Wang , Liang Guan , J. W. Chapman , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu

A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed for the upgrade of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN) so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-17 Saikat Biswas

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC will replace its current inner tracker system for the HL-LHC era. 3D silicon pixel sensors are being considered as radiation-hard candidates for the innermost layers of the new fully silicon-based tracking…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 S. Terzo , M. Chmeissani , G. Giannini , S. Grinstein , M. Manna , G. Pellegrini , D. Quirion , D. Vazquez Furelos

The LHC upgrade is planned to enhance the instantaneous luminosity during Run 3 from 2021 through 2023. The Phase-I upgrade of the trigger readout electronics for the ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) Calorimeters will be installed during the second…

Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) combine the sensing part and the front-end electronics in the same silicon layer, making use of CMOS technology. Profiting from the progresses of this commercial process, MAPS have been undergoing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-06 Domenico Colella

In LHC Run 3, ALICE will increase the data taking rate significantly to 50\,kHz continuous read out of minimum bias Pb-Pb events. This challenges the online and offline computing infrastructure, requiring to process 50 times as many events…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-05 David Rohr

We discuss the possibility of new generation neutrino and astroparticle physics experiments exploiting the liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) technique, following a graded strategy that envisions applications with increasing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Ereditato , A. Rubbia

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) have been selected for the future long-baseline Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). To allow LArTPCs to operate in the high-multiplicity near detector environment of DUNE, a new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-30 J. Asaadi , M. Auger , A. Ereditato , D. Goeldi , R. Haenni , U. Kose , I Kreslo , D. Lorca , M. Luethi , C. Rudolf Von Rohr , J. R. Sinclair , F. Stocker , C. Tognina , M. Weber