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Gamma-ray Transient Monitor (GTM) is an all-sky monitor onboard the Distant Retrograde Orbit-A (DRO-A) satellite with the scientific objective of detecting gamma-ray transients ranging from 20 keV to 1 MeV. GTM is equipped with 5 Gamma-ray…

In this review we show that the space experiment with gamma-ray detector with sensitivity 2 orders of magnitude higher than existing ones will make it possible to discover up to a thousand neutron star mergers, even at those moments when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-27 Vladimir Lipunov , Sergey Svertilov , Vladislav Topolev

In rare events experiments, such as those devoted to the direct search of dark matter, a precise knowledge of the environmental gamma and neutron backgrounds is crucial for reaching the design experiment sensitivity. The neutron component…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-24 Lorenzo Ascenzo , Giovanni Benato , Yingjie Chu , Giuseppe Di Carlo , Andrea Molinario , Silvia Vernetto

We present an analysis on the sensitivity to the active-sterile neutrino mixing with Germanium (Ge) and Silicon (Si) detectors in the context of the proposed coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus experiment in India. The study has been carried…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-07 S. P. Behera , D. K. Mishra , P. K. Netrakanti , R. Sehgal , R. Dey , V. Jha

A VME-based experiment system for n-{\gamma} discrimination using the charge comparison method was established. A data acquisition program for controlling the programmable modules and processing data online via VME64X bus was developed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 Yonghao Chen , Ximeng Chen , Xiaodong Zhang , Jiarong Lei , Li An , Jianxiong Shao , Pu Zheng , Xinhua Wang , Chuanxin Zhu , Tie He , Jian Yang

To increase by a major step the present sensitivity for dark matter and double beta decay search, a new project is suggested, which would operate 'naked' GErmanium detectors in liquid NItrogen as shielding in an Underground Setup (GENIUS).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , L. Baudis , G. Heusser , B. Majorovits , H. Paes

A CubeSat with a prototype scintillating detector with a sensitive volume of GAGG crystal is being developed with a possible launch date of 2025. Its purpose is to characterize the background signals that mimic the neutrino interaction that…

The last five years have shown us that ultra-high-energy (UHE; $>$100 TeV) gamma-ray sources are ubiquitous, but the nature of these sources remain highly uncertain. UHE gamma rays can be produced via either leptonic (Inverse compton) or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , A. Andrés , E. Anita-Rangel , M. Araya , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , R. Babu , P. Bangale , E. Belmont-Moreno , A. Bernal , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. De la Fuente , C. de León , P. Desiati , N. Di Lalla , R. Diaz Hernandez , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , K. Engel , T. Ergin , C. Espinoza , K. Fang , N. Fraija , S. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , N. Ghosh , M. M. González , J. A. González , J. A. Goodman , S. Groetsch , D. Guevel , J. Gyeong , J. P. Harding , S. Hernández-Cadena , I. Herzog , J. Hinton , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , S. Kaufmann , A. Lara , K. Leavitt , J. Lee , T. Lewis , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , K. Malone , M. Martin , O. Martinez , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , P. E. Mirón-Enriquez , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , M. Najafi , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , N. Omodei , M. Osorio-Archila , E. Ponce , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , C. D. Rho , A. Rodriguez Parra , D. Rosa-González , M. Roth , H. Salazar , D. Salazar-Gallegos , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , J. Serna-Franco , M. Shin , A. J. Smith , Y. Son , R. W. Springer , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , E. Varela , L. Villaseñor , X. Wang , Z. Wang , I. J. Watson , H. Wu , S. Yu , S. Yun-Cárcamo , X. Zhang , H. Zhou

Low background gamma spectrometry employing HPGe detectors is a sensitive technique for measuring low-level radioactivity in environmental applications, material screening, and for rare decay searches. This work presents spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-24 Swati Thakur , Soni Devi , Sanjeet S. Kaintura , Katyayni Tiwari , Pushpendra P. Singh

Uncertainty propagation to the $\gamma$-$\gamma$ coincidence-summing correction factor from the covariances of the nuclear data and detection efficiencies have been formulated. The method was applied in the uncertainty analysis of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 V. Semkova , N. Otuka , A. J. M. Plompen

The particle spectrometer SONIC for particle-$\gamma$ coincidence measurements was commissioned at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Cologne, Germany. SONIC consists of up to 12 silicon $\mathit{\Delta}E$-$E$ telescopes with a total…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-23 S. G. Pickstone , M. Weinert , M. Färber , F. Heim , E. Hoemann , J. Mayer , M. Müscher , S. Prill , P. Scholz , M. Spieker , V. Vielmetter , J. Wilhelmy , A. Zilges

The lattice dynamics following particle interactions remain not fully understood, and effects from nuclear-recoil interactions in conventional solid-state detectors - such as defect formation - can hinder accurate event-energy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-23 A J Biffl , Gerardo D Gonzalez , A N Villano , N Mirabolfathi

The results of analytical measurements performed with solid-sampling techniques are affected by the distribution of the analytes within the matrix. The effect becomes significant in case of determination of trace elements in small…

The gamma-ray tracking technique is one of the highly efficient detection method in experimental nuclear structure physics. On the basis of this method, two gamma-ray tracking arrays, AGATA in Europe and GRETA in the USA, are currently…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-01-17 Serkan Akkoyun , Nihat Yildiz

Superheated drop detector (SDD) consisting of drops of superheated liquid of halocarbon is irradiated to neutrons and gamma-rays from 252Cf fission neutron source and 137Cs gamma source separately. The analysis of pulse height of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-21 Mala Das , S Seth , S Saha , S Bhattacharya , P Bhattacharjee

In this paper, we explore the optimization of metal recycling with a focus on real-time differentiation between alloys of copper and aluminium. Spectral data, obtained through Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA), is utilized…

GRETA, the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array, is an array of highly-segmented HPGe detectors designed to track gamma-rays emitted in beam-physics experiments. Its high detection efficiency and state-of-the-art position resolution enable it to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-05 Robert Crabbs , I-Yang Lee , Kai Vetter

One of our two methods for fast-neutron imaging with spectrometric capability is presented here. It is a neutron-counting technique based on a hydrogenous neutron converter coupled to Gaseous Electron Multipliers (GEM). The principles of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Dangendorf , A. Breskin , R. Chechik , M. Goldberg , G. Laczko , I. Mor , M. Reginatto , D. Vartsky

Fast-neutron/gamma-ray pulse-shape discrimination has been performed for the organic liquid scintillators NE 213A and EJ 305 using a time-of-flight based neutron-tagging technique and waveform digitization on an event-by-event basis.…

The reaction 141Pr(alpha,n)144Pm was investigated between E_alpha=11 MeV and 15 MeV with the activation method using the gamma-gamma coincidence method with a segmented clover-type high-purity Germanium (HPGe) detector. Measurements with…