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The Cherenkov effect enables a valuable tool, known as the Cherenkov detector, to identify high-energy particles via the measurement of the Cherenkov cone. However, the sensitivity and momentum coverage of such detectors are intrinsically…

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a state-of-the-art facility for studying the strong force, is expected to begin commissioning its first experiments in 2028. This is an opportune time for artificial intelligence (AI) to be included from the…

Muography is an innovative imaging technique using naturally produced elementary particles -- atmospheric muons -- like the X-rays of medical imaging. The modification of the particles flux -- by scattering or absorption --, reflects the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-31 Theodore Avgitas , Jean Christophe Ianigro , Jacques Marteau

Water Cherenkov detectors like Super-Kamiokande, and the next generation Hyper-Kamiokande are adding gadolinium to their water to improve the detection of neutrons. By detecting neutrons in addition to the leptons in neutrino interactions,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-16 Blair Jamieson , Matt Stubbs , Sheela Ramanna , John Walker , Nick Prouse , Ryosuke Akutsu , Patrick de Perio , Wojciech Fedorko

The 64-channel Multianode Photo Multiplier has been evaluated as a possible choice for the photo detectors of the LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Franz Muheim

When a gamma or cosmic ray strikes the top of Earth's atmosphere, a shower of secondary particles moves toward the surface. Some of these secondary particles are charged muons that subsequently enter Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCDs) on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-08 Neerav Kaushal , Robert J. Nemiroff

In this contribution the Super-Cerenkov radiation (SCR) as a new phenomenon which includes in a more general and exact form the usual Cerenkov effect is presented. The Super-Cerenkov effect at Cerenkov threshold in the radiators of RICH…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 D. B. Ion , M. L. Ion

Detectors at future high energy colliders will face enormous technical challenges. Disentangling the unprecedented numbers of particles expected in each event will require highly granular silicon pixel detectors with billions of readout…

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) represent a class of instruments which are dedicated to the ground-based observation of cosmic VHE gamma ray emission based on the detection of the Cherenkov radiation produced in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 C. Arcaro , D. Corti , A. De Angelis , M. Doro , C. Manea , M. Mariotti , R. Rando , I. Reichardt , D. Tescaro

AMS-02 is a detector currently in operation onboard the International Space Station (ISS). One of the main scientific goals of the spectrometer is the measurement of charged particle fluxes. The detector design makes possible the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-28 Georgi Vasilev , Galina Vankova-Kirilova , Galina Bozhkova

We report on the characterization of candidate light sensors for use in the next-generation Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope project called Cherenkov Telescope Array, a major astro-particle physics project of about 100 telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. L. Knoetig , R. Mirzoyan , M. Kurz , J. Hose , E. Lorenz , T. Schweizer , M. Teshima , P. Buzhan , E. Popova , J. Bolmont , J. -P. Tavernet , P. Vincent , M. Shayduk

A reconstruction algorithm has been developed to capitalize on advances in Cherenkov technology for reactor antineutrino detection. Large gadolinium-doped water (Gd-H$_2$O) Cherenkov detectors are a developing technology which use Gd…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-16 Liz Kneale , Michael Smy , Matthew Malek

A proximity focusing ring imaging Cherenkov detector using aerogel as the radiator has been studied for an upgrade of the Belle detector at the KEK-B-factory. We constructed a prototype Cherenkov counter using a 4 x 4 array of 64-channel…

Particle identification (PID) is one of the main strengths of the ALICE experiment at the LHC. It is a crucial ingredient for detailed studies of the strongly interacting matter formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. ALICE…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-15 Łukasz Kamil Graczykowski , Monika Jakubowska , Kamil Rafał Deja , Maja Kabus

The proposed new Electron-Ion Collider poses a technical and intellectual challenge for the detector design to accommodate the long-term diverse physics goals envisaged by the program. This requires a 4{\pi} detector system capable of…

A collaboration between the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis and the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) has been producing silica aerogel blocks for Cherenkov detectors since 1986. Novosibirsk-manufactured aerogel is used in several…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-22 A. Yu. Barnyakov , A. F. Danilyuk , A. A. Kattsin , E. A. Kravchenko , A. A. Pochtar , A. Yu. Predein

In this work, we introduce a novel method for Particle Identification (PID) within the scope of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Identifying products of ultrarelativisitc collisions delivered by the LHC is one of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-23 Miłosz Kasak , Kamil Deja , Maja Karwowska , Monika Jakubowska , Łukasz Graczykowski , Małgorzata Janik

The ALICE detector at CERN uses properties of the magnetic field acting on charged particles as part of the particle tracking and identification system -- via measuring the strength of bending of charged particles in a magnetic field…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-03 Piotr Nowakowski , Przemysław Rokita , Łukasz Graczykowski

The DEPFET Collaboration pursues the development of a high resolution pixel vertex detector for future colliders (like ILC), based on the integration of amplifying transistors into a fully depleted bulk. In August 2008, six DEPFET…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-01-30 C. Marinas

With the development of the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), Gamma-ray astronomy has become one of the most interesting and productive fields of astrophysics. Current IACT telescope arrays (MAGIC, H.E.S.S, VERITAS) use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 D. Guberman , J. Cortina , J. E. Ward , A. Hahn , D. Mazin , J. Boix , A. Dettlaff , D. Fink , J. Gaweda , W. Haberer , J. Illa , J. Mundet , Y. Vera , H. Wetteskind