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The GEM project is designed for the next generation 2 beta decay experiments with 76-Ge. One ton of ''naked'' HP Ge detectors (natural at the first GEM-I phase and enriched in 76-Ge to 86% at the second GEM-II stage) are operating in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu. G. Zdesenko , O. A. Ponkratenko , V. I. Tretyak

A high energy beam absorber has been built for the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) at Fermilab. In the facility's initial configuration, an electron beam will be accelerated through 3 TTF-type or ILC-type RF cryomodules to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-24 C. Baffes , M. Church , J. Leibfritz , S. Oplt , I. Rakhno

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned large-scale radio array designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, $E > 100$ PeV) and neutrinos. Employing cost-effective antennas distributed across vast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 Kewen Zhang , Yi Zhang , Yi-Qing Guo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory, with dozens of telescopes located in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, will be the largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will provide broad energy coverage from 20 GeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 A. Bulgarelli , S. Caroff , A. Addis , P. Aubert , L. Baroncelli , G. De Cesare , A. DiPiano , V. Fioretti , E. Garcia , G. Maurin , N. Parmiggiani , T. Vuillaume , I. Oya , C. Hoischen

DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a general purpose high energy cosmic ray and gamma ray observatory, aiming to detect high energy electrons and gammas in the energy range 5 GeV to 10 TeV and hundreds of TeV for nuclei. This paper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-25 Hao Zhao , Wen-Xi Peng , Huan-Yu Wang , Rui Qiao , Dong-Ya Guo , Hong Xiao , Zhao-Min Wang

We have developed a digital fast Fourier transform (FFT) spectrometer made of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The base instrument has independent ADC and FPGA modules, which allow us to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Kazumasa Iwai , Yûki Kubo , Hiromitsu Ishibashi , Takahiro Naoi , Kenichi Harada , Kenji Ema , Yoshinori Hayashi , Yuichi Chikahiro

The next-generation very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory, the Cherenkov Telescope Array, will feature dozens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), each with thousands of pixels of photo-sensors. To be affordable and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Bechtol , S. Funk , A. Okumura , L. Ruckman , A. Simons , H. Tajima , J. Vandenbroucke , G. Varner

Very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays provide a unique probe into the non-thermal processes in the universe. The ground-based Imaging Air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) for detecting VHE gamma-rays have been perfected, so a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Massimo Persic

In this study, we introduce a Compton SPECT system for whole-body imaging of Actinium-225 (225Ac), one of the trending radionuclides for targeted alpha therapy (TAT). The Compton SPECT system enables multi-energy gamma photon detection with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Yuemeng Feng , Arkadiusz Sitek , Shadi Abdar Esfahani , Hamid Sabet

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, will improve the flux sensitivity of the current Cherenkov telescopes by an order of magnitude over a continuous range from about 10 GeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Andrea Zoli , Sera Markoff , Marc Ribo , Susumu Inoue , Paola Grandi , Giovanni De Cesare

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) provides high-resolution electricity consumption data that can enhance monitoring, diagnosis, and decision making in modern power distribution systems. Detecting anomalies in these time-series…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Fahimeh Orvati Nia , Shima Salehi , Joshua Peeples

Some pulsars have their maximum observable energy output in the gamma-ray band, offering the possibility of using these high-energy photons as probes of the particle acceleration and interaction processes in pulsar magnetospheres. After an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. J. Thompson

Gamma-ray burst detectors are sensitive at different energies, complicating the comparison of the burst populations that they detect. The instrument teams often report their detector sensitivities in their instruments' energy band. I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David L. Band

It has been established that Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) can produce Very High Energy radiation (E > 100 GeV), opening a new window on the investigation of particle acceleration and radiation properties in the most energetic domain. We expect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 G. La Mura

Extraterrestrial gamma-ray astronomy is now a source of new knowledge in the fields of astrophysics, cosmic-ray physics, and the nature of dark matter. The next absolutely necessary step in the development of extraterrestrial high-energy…

We propose that the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) can serve as a detector for long-lived, charged particles, through its measurement of extensive air showers from secondary leptons. To test this on an example model, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 Amy Connolly , Patrick Allison , Oindree Banerjee

The follow-up of external science alerts received from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) and Gravitational Waves (GW) detectors is one of the AGILE Team's current major activities. The AGILE team developed an automated real-time analysis pipeline to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-23 N. Parmiggiani , A. Bulgarelli , V. Fioretti , A. Di Piano , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , F. Verrecchia , M. Tavani , D. Beneventano , A. Macaluso

Here we present the thermal neutron counter from the ELI Gamma Above Neutron Threshold setup at the Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics. We describe the mechanical design of the setup, the properties of the ${}^{3}$He gas…

A fast neutron spectrometer consisting of segmented plastic scintillator and He-3 proportional counters was constructed for the measurement of neutrons in the energy range 1 MeV to 200 MeV. We discuss its design, principles of operation,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-24 T. J. Langford , C. D. Bass , E. J. Beise , H. Breuer , D. K. Erwin , C. R. Heimbach , J. S. Nico

Once completed, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) will be the most powerful (sub)millimeter interferometer in terms of sensitivity, spatial resolution and imaging. This paper presents the capabilities of ALMA applied to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Moullet , E. Lellouch , R. Moreno , M. Gurwell