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Using aerogel as radiator and multianode PMTs for photon detection, a proximity focusing Cherenkov ring imaging detector has been constructed and tested in the KEK $\pi$2 beam. The aim is to experimentally study the basic parameters such as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-01-09 I. Adachi , I. Bizjak , A. Gorisek , T. Iijima , M. Iwamoto , S. Korpar , P. Krizan , R. Pestotnik , M. Staric , A. Stanovnik , T. Sumiyoshi , K. Suzuki , T. Tabata

A Monte Carlo simulation has been performed to track light rays in cylindrical multimode fibres by ray optics. The trapping efficiencies for skew and meridional rays in active fibres and distributions of characteristic quantities for all…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 Patrick Achenbach , John H Cobb

A Monte Carlo simulation has been performed to track light rays in cylindrical fibres by ray optics. The trapping efficiencies for skew and meridional rays in active fibres and distributions of characteristic quantities for all trapped…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. P. Achenbach , J. H. Cobb

Due to their very fast signal rise time in the order of 1 ns, Silicon-Photomultipliers have become of increasing interest for many experiments that require very good timing resolution. With the prospect of an application in medical imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-01 Reimund Bayerlein , Ivor Fleck , Todd Peterson , Albert H. Walenta

The DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cerenkov light) is a new type of ring imaging Cerenkov detector, which detects images from Cerenkov light produced in precisely machined quartz bars. The Cerenkov images are transported along…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Lu , D. Marlow , C. Mindas , E. Prebys

The energetic bremsstrahlung photons up to 100 MeV produced in heavy ion collisions can be used as a sensitive probe to the short range correlation in atomic nuclei. The energy of the $\gamma$-rays can be measured by collecting the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-09 Dawei Si , Yan Zhou , Sheng Xiao , Zhigang Xiao

The possibility of using the effect of full energy absorption in a light scintillator when an electron beam passes through it to determine the energy characteristics of a low and medium energy beam (the absorbed energy method) is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-03 V. I. Alekseev , V. A. Baskov , V. A. Dronov , A. I. L'vov , A. V. Koltsov , Yu. F. Krechetov , V. V. Polyansky

Cerenkov technology is often the optimal choice for particle identification in high energy particle collision applications. Typically, the most challenging regime is at high pseudorapidity (forward) where particle identification must…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-28 M. Blatnik , K. Dehmelt , A. Deshpande , D. Dixit , N. Feege , T. K. Hemmick , B. Lewis , M. L. Purschke , W. Roh , F. Torales-Acosta , T. Videbaek , S. Zajac

The performance of a prototype Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector is studied using a charged particle beam. The detector performance, using CF4 and air as radiators, is described. Cherenkov angle precision and photoelectron yield using hybrid…

The possibilty of performing high-rate calorimetry with a slow scintillator crystal is studied. In this experimental situation, to avoid pulse pile-up, it can be necessary to base the energy measurement on only a fraction of the emitted…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Bocci , D. Chao , G. Chiodi , R. Faccini , F. Ferroni , R. Lunadei , G. Martellotti , G. Penso , D. Pinci , L. Recchia

Purpose: Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common eye tumor in childhood and can be treated external radiotherapy. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the adequacy of Monte Carlo simulations and the accuracy of a commercial treatment…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 L. Brualla , P. A. Mayorga , A. Flühs , A. M. Lallena , J. Sempau , W. Sauerwein

Monte Carlo simulations are a crucial tool for the analysis and prediction of various background components in liquid xenon (LXe) detectors. With improving shielding in new experiments, the simulation of external backgrounds, such as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-31 S. Bruenner , A. P. Colijn , M. P. Decowski , O. V. Kesber

A lithium-based radiochemical detector is aimed primarily to detect neutrinos from CNO cycle what will provide a direct proof of its existence and will be a stringent test of the theory of stellar evolution. Another task which can be solved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Kopylov , Valery Petukhov

Detailed Monte-Carlo simulations were used to evaluate the performance of a liquid neon scintillation detector for dark matter and low-energy solar neutrino interactions. A maximum-likelihood event vertex fitter including PMT time…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. Boulay , A. Hime , J. Lidgard

Expected energy spectra calculations for large volume liquid scintillation detectors to inverse $\beta$-decay for antineutrinos produced by $^{144}$Ce -- $^{144}$Pr artificial source have been performed. The calculations were carried out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-17 A. V. Derbin , I. S. Drachnev , I. S. Lomskaya , V. N. Muratova , N. V. Pilipenko , D. A. Semenov , E. V. Unzhakov

We have developed a Monte-Carlo simulation code for an aerogel \v Cerenkov Counter which is operated under a strong magnetic field such as 1.5T. This code consists of two parts: photon transportation inside aerogel tiles, and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 Ryuji Suda et al

In this work we report on the Monte Carlo study performed to understand and reproduce experimental measurements of a new plastic \b{eta}-detector with cylindrical geometry. Since energy deposition simulations differ from the experimental…

We describe a novel photon detector which operates under an intense flux of neutrons. It is composed of lead-aerogel sandwich counter modules. Its salient features are high photon detection efficiency and blindness to neutrons. As a result…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-21 Y. Maeda , N. Kawasaki , T. Masuda , H. Morii , D. Naito , Y. Nakajima , H. Nanjo , T. Nomura , N. Sasao , S. Seki , K. Shiomi , T. Sumida , Y. Tajima

The MCNP code was used to study the characteristics of gamma radiation field with collimated beam geometry. A close-to-reality simulation model of the facility was used for calculation air-kerma along the whole range of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-11 Fei Gao

The MOLLER experiment proposed at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility plans a precision low energy determination of the weak mixing angle via the measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the scattering of high energy…