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The high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade is setting now a new challenge for particle detector technologies. The increase in luminosity will produce a particle background in the gas-based muon detectors that is ten times higher than under…

We discuss a CMS eXtension for Studying Energetic Neutrinos (CMS-XSEN). Neutrinos at the LHC are abundant and have unique features: their energies reach out to the TeV range, and the contribution of the {\tau} flavour is sizeable. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-13 S. Buontempo , G. M. Dallavalle , G. De Lellis , D. Lazic , F. L. Navarria

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is one of the mostly used gaseous detectors in the High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. GEMs are widely used as tracking devices due to their high-rate handling capability and good position resolution. An…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-23 S. Mandal , S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , S. Gope , S. Dhani , A. C. Hegde , M. Chatterjee , S. Das , S. Biswas

Radiation damage significantly impacts the performance of silicon tracking detectors in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments such as ATLAS and CMS, with signal reduction being the most critical effect. Adjusting sensor bias voltage and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-22 Marco Bomben , Keerthi Nakkalil

The detection of photons produced during the avalanche development in gas chambers has been the subject of detailed studies in the past. The great progresses achieved in last years in the performance of micro-pattern gas detectors on one…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 Michela Marafini , Vincenzo Patera , Davide Pinci , Alessio Sarti , A. Sciubba , Eleuterio Spiriti

The CMS experiment, located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN, has a redundant muon system composed by three different gaseous detector technologies: Cathode Strip Chambers (in the forward regions), Drift Tubes (in the central…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 M. A. Shah , R. Hadjiska

A study has been carried out to evaluate the performance stability of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) chamber prototypes in the laboratory using $^{55}$Fe radiation source with Argon and CO$_2$ gas mixture. This research focuses on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-10 S. Mandal , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas

The performance of triple-GEM detectors in He+N2 gas mixtures is studied in the range of 1-10 atm. The results obtained are relevant in the field of minimization of ionic space-charge effect in the TPC and neutron detection.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bondar , A. Buzulutskov , L. Shekhtman , A. Vasiljev

The CMS experiment will collect data from the proton-proton collisions delivered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a centre-of-mass energy up to 14 TeV. The CMS trigger system is designed to cope with unprecedented luminosities and LHC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-05-07 Marta Felcini , Marco Zanetti

In order to evaluate the response to cosmic-ray nuclei of a Compton-Scatter Transition Radiation Detector in the proposed ACCESS space-based mission, a hybrid Monte Carlo simulation using GEANT3 and an external transition radiation (TR)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 John F. Krizmanic , Michael L. Cherry , Robert E. Streitmatter

In the framework of detector development, Monte Carlo simulations play a key role in the evaluation of the expected performance and the full understanding of the behavior in beam conditions. In particular, a software which simulates the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-21 Lia Lavezzi

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started the Run 3 operation in 2022, and the peak instantaneous luminosity in Run 3 may reach 3 x 10^34 cm-2s-1. The ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers are the main component of the precision tracking…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-04 Jiajin Ge , Bing Li , Markus Fras , Junjie Zhu , Bing Zhou , Tiesheng Dai

The CMS experiment recorded about $38.5\,\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13.6\,\mathrm{TeV}$ in 2022, the first year of the LHC Run 3. Performance highlights on electron triggers, tracking with muons, and jet…

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The Monte Carlo (MC) simulation method is a powerful tool for radiation physicists, and several general-purpose software packages are commonly applied in a myriad of different radiation physics fields today. In medical physics, charged…

Large area triple GEM chambers will be employed in the first two stations of the MuCh system of the CBM experiment at the upcoming Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR in Darmstadt/Germany. The GEM detectors have been designed to…

Gaseous detectors are used in high energy physics as trackers or, more generally, as devices for the measurement of the particle position. For this reason, they must provide high spatial resolution and they have to be able to operate in…

The Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey (GRAMS) is a next-generation balloon/satellite mission utilizing a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detector to measure both MeV gamma rays and antinuclei produced by dark matter annihilation…

A quadruple GEM detector has been assembled in a standalone configuration and operated using Ar and CO$_2$ gas mixtures in proportions of 70:30 and 90:10. Detailed performance study of the detector has been made by using $^{106}$Ru-Rh…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-09 Rajendra Nath Patra , Rama Narayan Singaraju , Saikat Biswas , Yogendra P. Viyogi , Tapan K. Nayak

In these proceedings we review the physics objects used by the CMS experiment during LHC Run 3 at 13.6 TeV, including charged leptons, photons, jets, and missing transverse momentum. Their performance and calibration is critical for physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-28 Markus Seidel