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A novel scintillator detector, the SuperFGD, has been selected as the main neutrino target for an upgrade of the T2K experiment ND280 near detector. The detector design will allow nearly 4{\pi} coverage for neutrino interactions at the near…

For the Phase-II Upgrade of the ATLAS detector at CERN, the current ATLAS Inner Detector will be replaced with the ATLAS Inner Tracker. The ATLAS Inner Tracker will be an all-silicon detector, consisting of a pixel tracker and a strip…

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.…

FLARES (Flexible Scintillation Light Apparatus for Rare Events Searches) is an innovative project in the field of rare events searches, such as the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay. It aims at demonstrating the high potential…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-02 Mattia Beretta

The detection and cross-section measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE{\nu}NS) are vital for particle physics, astrophysics, and nuclear physics. Therefore, a new CE{\nu}NS detection experiment is proposed in China.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-28 Chenguang Su , Qian Liu , Tianjiao Liang

Organic scintillators are widely used for fast neutron detection and spectroscopy. Several effects complicate the interpretation of results from detectors based upon these materials. First, fast neutrons will often leave a detector before…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-29 N. S. Bowden , P. Marleau , J. T. Steele , S. Mrowka , G. Aigeldinger , W. Mengesha

We propose a high-precision, fast, robust and cost-effective muon detector concept for an FCC-ee experiment. This design combines precision drift tubes with fast plastic scintillator strips to enable both spatial and timing measurements.…

Liquid scintillator (LS) is widely used in various neutrino oscillation experiments, in particular, the reactor neutrino experiments. The complex absorption and re-emission processes of optical photons are known to be an important source of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Yan Zhang , Ze-Yuan Yu , Xin-Ying Li , Zi-Yan Deng , Liang-Jian Wen

Sufficient current pulse information of nuclear radiation detectors can be retained by direct waveform digitization owing to the improvement of digitizer's performance. In many circumstances, reasonable cost and power consumption are on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Tao Xue , Jinfu Zhu , Jingjun Wen , Jirong Cang , Zhi Zeng , Liangjun Wei , Lin Jiang , Yinong Liu , Jianmin Li

Neutrino detectors, particle calorimeters and some dark matter detectors require dense and massive active materials. An extremely fine segmentation is desirable to achieve precise three-dimensional particle tracking. However, such systems…

We have developed a novel tracking detector utilizing a water-based liquid scintillator (WbLS) for the accurate characterization of neutrino interactions on a water target. In this detector, the WbLS is optically segmented into small cells…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-10 Naoto Onda , Yuka Asano , Takashi Iida , Tatsuya Kikawa , Tsuyoshi Nakaya , Atsushi Tokiyasu , Daiki Wakabayashi

In recent years, demand for scintillation detectors with high time resolution (better than 100 ps) has emerged in high-energy physics and medical imaging applications. In particular, time of flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) can…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-14 V. S. Shevelev , A. V. Ishchenko , A. S. Vanetsev , V. Nagirnyi , S. I. Omelkov

The performance of a scintillating fiber detector prototype for tracking under high rate conditions is investigated. A spatial resolution of about100 micron is aimed for the detector. Further demands are low occupancy and radiation hardness…

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Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is the most significant neutron technique in terms of impact on science and engineering. However, the basic concept of SANS facilities has not changed since the technique's inception about 40 years ago,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-07 Dazhi Liu , Boris Khaykovich , Mikhail V. Gubarev , J Lee Robertson , Lowell Crow , Brian D. Ramsey , David E. Moncton

Over the last decade one of the most significant technological advances made in the field of radiation detectors for nuclear medicine was the development of Silicon Photomultipler (SiPM) sensors. At present a only small number of SiPM based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-03 Jeremy M. C. Brown

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detector (HERD) facility is planned to go onboard China's Space Station, planned to be operational starting in around 2025 for about 10 years. The main scientific objectives of HERD are the search for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 P. W. Cattaneo , M. Pullia , M. C. Prata , A. Rappoldi , M. Rossella

Detailed characterization of the newly available plastic scintillator (EJ-299-33A) having the pulse shape discrimination (PSD) property has been carried out in case of a large-sized detector (5 in.$\times$5 in.). The pulse height response…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-08 Pratap Roy , K. Banerjee , A. K. Saha , C. Bhattacharya , J. K. Meenaa , P. Bhaskar , S. Mukhopadhyay , S. Bhattacharya