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Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers are a well-established technology with a strong track record in experimental cosmology, making them ideal for current and future radio astronomy instruments. The Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Victoria L. Butler , James J. Bock , Dongwoo T. Chung , Abigail T. Crites , King Lau , Ian Lowe , Dan P. Marrone , Evan C. Mayer , Benjamin J. Vaughan , Michael Zemcov

The large Time-Of-Flight (TOF) array is one of the main detectors devoted to charged hadron identification in the mid-rapidity region of the ALICE experiment at the LHC. It allows separation among pions, kaons and protons up to a few GeV/c,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-04 Andrea Alici

Particle identification (PID) capabilities are studied by using the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) and a Time-Of-Flight (TOF) detector together at STAR. The identification capability of charged hadrons is greatly extended compared with that…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 M. Shao , O. Barannikova , X. Dong , Y. Fisyak , L. Ruan , P. Sorensen , Z. Xu

In the CBM (Compressed Baryonic Matter) experiment constructed at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (Fair) at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, MRPC(Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber) is adopted to construct the large TOF…

In the paper, we discuss the development of the multi-gap resistive plate chamber Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology and the production of the STAR TOF detector in China at the beginning of the 21st century. Then we review recent experimental…

Chemical doping of bulk black phosphorus is a well-recognized way to reduce surface oxidation and degradation. Here, we report on the fabrication of terahertz frequency detectors consisting of an antenna-coupled field-effect transistor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 Leonardo Viti , Antonio Politano , Kai Zhang , Miriam Serena Vitiello

The EDELWEISS collaboration aims for direct detection of light dark matter using germanium cryogenic detectors with low threshold phonon sensor technologies and efficient charge readout designs. We describe here the development of Ge…

We describe the main components of the ATLAS Forward Physics project, namely the movable beam pipe, the tracking and timing detectors which allow to detect intact protons in the final state at the LHC. The position detector is composed on 6…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-15 Christophe Royon

GASTOF (Gas Time-of-Flight) detector is a Cherenkov detector proposed for very precise (10--20 ps) arrival time measurements of forward protons at some 420 m from the central detectors of CMS and ATLAS. Such an excellent time resolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Bonnet , T. Pierzchala , K. Piotrzkowski , P. Rodeghiero

We present the in-lab and on-sky performance for the upgraded 90 GHz focal plane of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS), which had four of its seven detector wafers updated during the austral winter of 2022. The update aimed…

Spectacular advances in heterodyne astronomy with both the Herschel Space Observatory and Stratospheric Observatory for Far Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have been largely due to breakthroughs in detector technology. In order to exploit the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 S. Lara-Avila , A. Danilov , D. Golubev , H. He , K. H. Kim , R. Yakimova , F. Lombardi , T. Bauch , S. Cherednichenko , S. Kubatkin

A high-performance time-of-flight (TOF) MRPC wall is being built for the CBM experiment at FAIR for charged hadron identification. The detector control system for the TOF system will be based on EPICS. All components like power supplies for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 S. Dong , G. M. Huang , J. Frühauf , P. -A. Loizeau , I. Deppner , N. Herrmann , D. Wang

The Compressed Baryonic Matter spectrometer (CBM) is a future fixed-target heavy-ion experiment located at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. The key element in CBM providing hadron identification at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 I. Deppner , N. Herrmann

The increasing concentration of greenhouse gases, notably CH4 and CO2, has fueled global temperature increases, intensifying concerns regarding the prevailing climate crisis. Effectively monitoring these gases demands a detector spanning…

Recent approaches to develop infrared photodetectors characterized by high sensitivities, broadband spectral coverage, easy integration with silicon electronics and low cost have been based on hybrid structures of transition metal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Onur Özdemir , Iñigo Ramiro , Shuchi Gupta , Gerasimos Konstantatos

The new CDFII detector incorporates a Time-of-Flight detector (TOF), employing plastic scintillator bars and fine-mesh photomultipliers. Since August 2001 the TOF system has been fully instrumented and integrated into the CDFII data…

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) offers the promise of highly efficient organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), without the heavy metals requirement of the previous generation of OLEDs. However, the design of new TADF emitters…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Kritam Thapa , Jennifer I. Jones , Laura E. Ratcliff

The CMS/TOTEM and ATLAS collaborations carry out a program of forward physics with several near-beam detectors extending their coverage to high pseudorapidities. This instrumentation includes calorimeters (CASTOR and ZDC), tracking devices…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Xavier Rouby

In this work we describe some recent results concerning the application of Resistive Plate Chambers operated in avalanche mode at atmospheric pressure for high-resolution time-of-flight measurements. A combination of multiple, mechanically…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Fonte , V. Peskov

The novel MPGD-based photon detectors of COMPASS RICH-1 consist of large-size hybrid MPGDs with multi-layer architecture including two layers of Thick-GEMs and a bulk resistive MicroMegas. The top surface of the first THGEM is coated with a…