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Liquid scintillator detectors are playing an increasingly important role in low-energy neutrino experiments. In this article, we describe a generic energy response model of liquid scintillator detectors that provides energy estimations of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-18 Logan Lebanowski , Linyan Wan , Xiangpan Ji , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen

Using scintillator tile technology several square meters of plastic scintillator are read out by only two photomultiplier with a time precision of about 1.5 nsec. Two examples are discussed to build a detector based on this technology to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-08 J. Baehr , H. -J. Grabosch , V. Kantserov , H. Leich , R. Leiste , R. Nahnhauer

Scintillating fibre detectors combine sub-mm resolution particle tracking, precise measurements of the particle stopping power and sub-ns time resolution. Typically, fibres are read out with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Hence, if fibres…

There is rising interest in organic scintillators with low scattering length for future neutrino detectors. Therefore, a new scintillator system was developed based on admixtures of paraffin wax in linear alkyl benzene. The transparency and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-06 Christian Buck , Benjamin Gramlich , Stefan Schoppmann

A new near detector, SciBar, for the K2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation expe riment was installed to improve the measurement of neutrino energy spectrum and to study neutrino interactions in the energy region around 1 GeV. SciBar is a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 K. Nitta

An innovative particle detector that offers a compelling combination of cost-effectiveness and high accuracy is introduced. The detector features plastic scintillators paired with a sparse arrangement of SiPMs, strategically positioned…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-15 Yoav Simhony , Alex Segal , Yuri Orlov , Ofer Amrani , Erez Etzion

We consider possible detector designs for short-baseline neutrino experiments using neutrino beams produced at the First Muon Collider complex. The high fluxes available at the muon collider make possible high statistics deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-02-02 Deborah A. Harris , Kevin S. McFarland

For a long time, scintillator detectors have suffered from relatively weak spatial resolution due to various influencing factors. Additionally, the high cost of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) has limited the widespread adoption of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-29 S. K. Lv , C. S. Dai , D. D. Hu , T. C. Zhong , W. F. Wu , X. J. Wang

One of the most promising approaches for the next generation of neutrino experiments is the realization of large hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation detectors made possible by recent innovations in photodetection technology and liquid…

In order to develop a high spatial resolution (micron level) thermal neutron detector, a detector assembly composed of cerium doped lithium glass microfibers, each with a diameter of 1\,$\mu$m, is proposed, where the neutron absorption…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-14 Song Yushou , Joseph Conner , Xiaodong Zhang , Jason P. Hayward

A 3-D position sensitive neutron detector is being developed based on a plastic scintillator array. A double side SiPM readout is used to determine the depth of interaction (DOI) in each scintillator unit. In the preliminary test, the DOI…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-11 Yang Tian , Yidong Fu , Yulan Li , Yuanjing Li

The DANSS project is aimed at creating a relatively compact neutrino spectrometer which does not contain any flammable or other dangerous liquids and may therefore be located very close to the core of an industrial power reactor. As a…

A plastic scintillator bar with dimensions 300 cm x 2.5 cm x 11 cm was exposed to a focused muon beam to study its light yield and timing characteristics as a function of position and angle of incidence. The scintillating light was read out…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-07 A. Blondel , D. Breton , A. Dubreuil , A. Khotyantsev , A. Korzenev , J. Maalmi , A. Mefodev , P. Mermod , E. Noah

LiquidO is an innovative radiation detector concept. The core idea is to exploit stochastic light confinement in a highly scattering medium to self-segment the detector volume. In this paper, we demonstrate event-by-event muon tracking in a…

For several decades now, scintillator detectors have found a wide range of applications in particle physics, including neutrino detection, the search for dark matter and even medical imaging. These detectors so far have strongly relied on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-17 Diana Navas-Nicolás , Cloé Girard-Carillo , Stefan Schoppmann

Neutrino Factory is a facility for future precision studies of neutrino oscillations. A so called near detector is essential for reaching the aimed precision of neutrino oscillation analysis. Main task of a near detector is to measure the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-11 Rosen Matev

Timing-pick up detectors with excellent timing resolutions are essential in many modern nuclear physics experiments. Aiming to develop a Time-Of-Flight system with precision down to about 10 ps, we have made a systematic study of the timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-19 J. W. Zhao , B. H. Sun , I. Tanihata , S. Terashima , L. H. Zhu , A. Enomoto , D. Nagae , T. Nishimura , S. Omika , A. Ozawa , Y. Takeuchi , T. Yamaguchi

The sensitivity to New Physics of a low threshold scintillating argon bubble chamber measuring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in reactors is reported. Namely, light scalar mediators, sterile neutrino oscillations, unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 E. Alfonso-Pita , L. J. Flores , Eduardo Peinado , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui

The NUCLEUS experiment aims at measuring the coherent elastic scattering of nuclear reactor antineutrinos off nuclei using cryogenic calorimeters. Operating at an overburden of 3m.w.e., muon-induced backgrounds are expected to be dominant.…

This article details the potential for using Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) to detect low-energy neutrinos through their coherent scattering with nuclei. The detection of neutrinos through this standard model process has not been accessible…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Guillermo Fernandez Moroni , Juan Estrada , Gustavo Cancelo , Eduardo Paolini , Javier Tiffenberg , Jorge Molina