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Three Gas-Electron-Multiplier tracking detectors with an active area of 10 cm x 10 cm and a two-dimensional, laser-etched orthogonal strip readout have been tested extensively in particle beams at the Meson Test Beam Facility at Fermilab.…

A novel large volume spherical proportional counter, recently developed, is used for neutron measurements. Gas mixtures of $N_{2}$ with $C_{2}H_{6}$ and pure $N_{2}$ are studied for thermal and fast neutron detection, providing a new way…

NEXT-DEMO is a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 detector, an electroluminescent time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136 using 100 to 150 kg of enriched xenon gas. NEXT-DEMO was built to…

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

BESIII is a particle physics experiment located at the Institute of High-Energy Physics (BEPC-II) e+e- collider at IHEP in Beijing. The Italian collaboration is leading the effort for the development of a cylindrical GEM (CGEM) detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-07 R. Farinelli

Novel NaIL detector (5x6 inch) was investigated for aims of neutron detection in wide energy range. It has been found that the detector together with its known ability to detect the {\gamma}- radiation is also allows to distinguish neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-13 D. Ponomarev , D. Filosofov , J. Khushvaktov , A. Lubashevskiy , I. Rozova , S. Rozov , K. Shakhov , Yu. Shitov , V. Timkin , E. Yakushev , I. Zhitnikov

We characterize the performance of two pixelated neutron detectors: a PMT-based array that utilizes Anger logic for pixel identification and a SiPM-based array that employs individual pixel readout. The SiPM-based array offers improved…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-31 J. Balajthy , P. Marleau , M. Sweany

Introduction:Electron-Neutron Detector Array (ENDA) is designed to measure thermal neutrons produced by hadronic interactions between cosmic ray extensive air showers (EAS) and the surrounding environment as well as electrons around the…

For radiography applications using fast neutrons simultaneously with gammas we have developed a detector with 16 stilbene crystals in a 4$\times$4 2D array with a 5~mm pitch and a depth of 25~mm. The crystal array is read out by Silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 R. Adams , C. Günther , N. Höflich , O. Pooth

A post-acceleration system based on the accelerators at CSNS (China Spallation Neutron Source) is proposed to build a super-beam facility for neutrino physics. Two post-acceleration schemes, one using superconducting dipole magnets in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yang Wu , Jingyu Tang

Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a Standard Model process that, although predicted for decades, has only been detected recently by the COHERENT collaboration. Now that CE$\nu$NS has been discovered, it provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Julien Billard , Joseph Johnston , Bradley J. Kavanagh

The new beam profile measurement for the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN is based on a single Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) with a 2D readout structure. This detector is very light, ~0.4% X0, as required by the low energy of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-20 Serge Duarte Pinto , Rhodri Jones , Leszek Ropelewski , Jens Spanggaard , Gerard Tranquille

We report the first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (\cevns) on argon using a liquid argon detector at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source. Two independent analyses prefer \cevns over the…

The possibility of observing supernova (SN) neutrinos through the process of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS) in future ton scale detectors designed primarily for direct detection of dark matter is investigated. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-05 Sovan Chakraborty , Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Kamales Kar

The next generation of radioactive ion beam facilities, which will give experimental access to many exotic nuclei, are presently being developed. These facilities will make it possible to study very short lived exotic nuclei with extreme…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-05-14 Pär-Anders Söderström

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) offers a valuable approach in searching for physics beyond the Standard Model. The Ricochet experiment aims to perform a precision measurement of the CE$\nu$NS spectrum at the…

We report in situ neutron background measurements at the Kuo-Sheng Reactor Neutrino Laboratory (KSNL) by a hybrid neutron detector (HND) with a data size of 33.8 days under identical shielding configurations as during the neutrino physics…

We report promising initial results obtained with new resistive-electrode GEM (RETGEM) detectors manufactured, for the first time, using screen printing technology. These new detectors allow one to reach gas gains nearly as high as with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-12-10 B. Clark , A. G. Agocs , R. Oliveira , V. Peskov , Pietropaolo , Picchi

Scanning helium microscopy (SHeM) is an emerging technique that uses a beam of neutral atoms to image and analyse surfaces. The low energies ($\sim$64 meV) and completely non-destructive nature of the probe particles provide exceptional…