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Silicon Sensors for Trackers at High-Luminosity Environment

The planned upgrade of the LHC accelerator at CERN, namely the high luminosity (HL) phase of the LHC (HL-LHC foreseen for 2023), will result in a more intense radiation environment than the present tracking system was designed for. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 Timo Peltola

Searching for screened scalar forces with long-baseline atom interferometers

Screened scalars are ubiquitous in many dark-sector models. They give rise to non-trivial fifth forces whilst evading experimental constraints through density-dependent screening mechanisms. We propose equipping a 10\,m-scale long-baseline…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Hannah Banks , John Carlton , Benjamin Elder , Thomas Hird , Christopher McCabe

Ultralight scalar dark matter detection with ZAIGA

ZAIGA is a proposed underground long-baseline atom interferometer (AI) facility, aiming for experimental research on gravitation and related problems. In this paper, we study the possibility of detecting the ultralight scalar dark matter…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Wei Zhao , Xitong Mei , Dongfeng Gao , Jin Wang , Mingsheng Zhan

The DAQ system of the 12,000 Channel CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype

The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC will be upgraded to accommodate the 5-fold increase in the instantaneous luminosity expected at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). Concomitant with this increase will be an increase in the number of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-28 B. Acar , G. Adamov , C. Adloff , S. Afanasiev , N. Akchurin , B. Akgün , M. Alhusseini , J. Alison , G. Altopp , M. Alyari , S. An , S. Anagul , I. Andreev , M. Andrews , P. Aspell , I. A. Atakisi , O. Bach , A. Baden , G. Bakas , A. Bakshi , P. Bargassa , D. Barney , E. Becheva , P. Behera , A. Belloni , T. Bergauer , M. Besancon , S. Bhattacharya , S. Bhattacharya , D. Bhowmik , P. Bloch , A. Bodek , M. Bonanomi , A. Bonnemaison , S. Bonomally , J. Borg , F. Bouyjou , D. Braga , J. Brashear , E. Brondolin , P. Bryant , J. Bueghly , B. Bilki , B. Burkle , A. Butler-Nalin , S. Callier , D. Calvet , X. Cao , B. Caraway , S. Caregari , L. Ceard , Y. C. Cekmecelioglu , G. Cerminara , N. Charitonidis , R. Chatterjee , Y. M. Chen , Z. Chen , K. y. Cheng , S. Chernichenko , H. Cheung , C. H. Chien , S. Choudhury , D. Čoko , G. Collura , F. Couderc , I. Dumanoglu , D. Dannheim , P. Dauncey , A. David , G. Davies , E. Day , P. DeBarbaro , F. De Guio , C. de La Taille , M. De Silva , P. Debbins , E. Delagnes , J. M. Deltoro , G. Derylo , P. G. Dias de Almeida , D. Diaz , P. Dinaucourt , J. Dittmann , M. Dragicevic , S. Dugad , V. Dutta , S. Dutta , J. Eckdahl , T. K. Edberg , M. El Berni , S. C. Eno , Yu. Ershov , P. Everaerts , S. Extier , F. Fahim , C. Fallon , B. A. Fontana Santos Alves , E. Frahm , G. Franzoni , J. Freeman , T. French , E. Gurpinar Guler , Y. Guler , M. Gagnan , P. Gandhi , S. Ganjour , A. Garcia-Bellido , Z. Gecse , Y. Geerebaert , H. Gerwig , O. Gevin , W. Gilbert , A. Gilbert , K. Gill , C. Gingu , S. Gninenko , A. Golunov , I. Golutvin , T. Gonzalez , N. Gorbounov , L. Gouskos , Y. Gu , F. Guilloux , E. Gülmez , M. Hammer , A. Harilal , K. Hatakeyama , A. Heering , V. Hegde , U. Heintz , V. Hinger , N. Hinton , J. Hirschauer , J. Hoff , W. S. Hou , C. Isik , J. Incandela , S. Jain , H. R. Jheng , U. Joshi , O. Kara , V. Kachanov , A. Kalinin , R. Kameshwar , A. Kaminskiy , A. Karneyeu , O. Kaya , M. Kaya , A. Khukhunaishvili , S. Kim , K. Koetz , T. Kolberg , A. Kristić , M. Krohn , K. Krüger , N. Kulagin , S. Kulis , S. Kunori , C. M. Kuo , V. Kuryatkov , S. Kyre , O. K. Köseyan , Y. Lai , K. Lamichhane , G. Landsberg , J. Langford , M. Y. Lee , A. Levin , A. Li , B. Li , J. -H. Li , H. Liao , D. Lincoln , L. Linssen , R. Lipton , Y. Liu , A. Lobanov , R. S. Lu , I. Lysova , A. M. Magnan , F. Magniette , A. A. Maier , A. Malakhov , I. Mandjavize , M. Mannelli , J. Mans , A. Marchioro , A. Martelli , P. Masterson , B. Meng , T. Mengke , A. Mestvirishvili , I. Mirza , S. Moccia , I. Morrissey , T. Mudholkar , J. Musić , I. Musienko , S. Nabili , A. Nagar , A. Nikitenko , D. Noonan , M. Noy , K. Nurdan , C. Ochando , B. Odegard , N. Odell , Y. Onel , W. Ortez , J. Ozegović , L. Pacheco Rodriguez , E. Paganis , D. Pagenkopf , V. Palladino , S. Pandey , F. Pantaleo , C. Papageorgakis , I. Papakrivopoulos , J. Parshook , N. Pastika , M. Paulini , P. Paulitsch , T. Peltola , R. Pereira Gomes , H. Perkins , P. Petiot , F. Pitters , F. Pitters , H. Prosper , M. Prvan , I. Puljak , T. Quast , R. Quinn , M. Quinnan , K. Rapacz , L. Raux , G. Reichenbach , M. Reinecke , M. Revering , A. Rodriguez , T. Romanteau , A. Rose , M. Rovere , A. Roy , P. Rubinov , R. Rusack , A. E. Simsek , U. Sozbilir , O. M. Sahin , A. Sanchez , R. Saradhy , T. Sarkar , M. A. Sarkisla , J. B. Sauvan , I. Schmidt , M. Schmitt , E. Scott , C. Seez , F. Sefkow , S. Sharma , I. Shein , A. Shenai , R. Shukla , E. Sicking , P. Sieberer , Y. Sirois , V. Smirnov , E. Spencer , A. Steen , J. Strait , T. Strebler , N. Strobbe , J. W. Su , E. Sukhov , L. Sun , M. Sun , C. Syal , B. Tali , U. G. Tok , A. Kayis Topaksu , C. L. Tan , I. Tastan , T. Tatli , R. Thaus , S. Tekten , D. Thienpont , T. Pierre-Emile , E. Tiras , M. Titov , D. Tlisov , J. Troska , Z. Tsamalaidze , G. Tsipolitis , A. Tsirou , N. Tyurin , S. Undleeb , D. Urbanski , V. Ustinov , A. Uzunian , M. van de Klundert , J. Varela , M. Velasco , M. Vicente Barreto Pinto , P. M. da Silva , T. Virdee , R. Vizinho de Oliveira , J. Voelker , E. Voirin , Z. Wang , X. Wang , F. Wang , M. Wayne , S. N. Webb , M. Weinberg , A. Whitbeck , D. White , R. Wickwire , J. S. Wilson , H. Y. Wu , L. Wu , C. H Yeh , R. Yohay , G. B. Yu , S. S. Yu , D. Yu , F. Yumiceva , A. Zacharopoulou , N. Zamiatin , A. Zarubin , S. Zenz , H. Zhang , J. Zhang

Pixelated 3D sensors for tracking in radiation harsh environments

The High Luminosity upgrade of the CERN Large Hadron Collider will be able to reach a peak instantaneous luminosity of 5E34/cm2 s. The innermost detectors of the CMS and ATLAS experiments will have to cope with unprecedented requirements on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-16 Jordi Duarte-Campderros

ALICE Inner Tracking System Upgrade: construction and commissioning

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the CERN LHC experiment optimized for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterization of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. To achieve the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-30 Domenico Colella

The feasibility study of the long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment at the SUNLAB laboratory in Poland

The feasibility study of an underground laboratory in the Polkowice -Sieroszowice mine in Poland (SUNLAB) as a host of a far detector in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment was performed. The SUNLAB location was previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Malgorzata Haranczyk

Proposal of an AI-Based Support Assistant for the ALICE-FIT Detector Setup at CERN

We propose an AI-based assistant designed to support the ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) detector operators at CERN. The assistant helps diagnose and resolve operational issues in the Detector Control System (DCS), where decisions must…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-24 Ignacy Mermer , Jakub Muszyński , Jakub Możaryn , Krystian Rosłon

Performance of the LHC injector chain after the upgrade and potential development

The CERN accelerator complex prepares protons for the four big experiments at the Interaction Regions of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as well as for a number of fixed target experiments, which take beam directly from the LHC injectors.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Hannes Bartosik , Giovanni Rumolo

Particle identification studies with a full-size 4-GEM prototype for the ALICE TPC upgrade

A large Time Projection Chamber is the main device for tracking and charged-particle identification in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. After the second long shutdown in 2019/20, the LHC will deliver Pb beams colliding at an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-16 M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , S. Aiola , J. Alme , T. Alt , W. Amend , A. Andronic , V. Anguelov , H. Appelshäuser , M. Arslandok , R. Averbeck , M. Ball , G. G. Barnaföldi , E. Bartsch , R. Bellwied , G. Bencedi , M. Berger , N. Bialas , P. Bialas , L. Bianchi , S. Biswas , L. Boldizsár , L. Bratrud , P. Braun-Munzinger , M. Bregant , C. L. Britton , E. J. Brucken , H. Caines , A. J. Castro , S. Chattopadhyay , P. Christiansen , L. G. Clonts , T. M. Cormier , S. Das , S. Dash , A. Deisting , S. Dittrich , A. K. Dubey , R. Ehlers , M. Engel , F. Erhardt , N. B. Ezell , L. Fabbietti , U. Frankenfeld , J. J. Gaardhøje , C. Garabatos , P. Gasik , Á. Gera , P. Ghosh , S. K. Ghosh , P. Glässel , O. Grachov , A. Grein , T. Gunji , H. Hamagaki , G. Hamar , J. W. Harris , P. Hauer , J. Hehner , E. Hellbär , H. Helstrup , T. E. Hilden , B. Hohlweger , M. Ivanov , M. Jung , D. Just , E. Kangasaho , R. Keidel , B. Ketzer , S. A. Khan , S. Kirsch , T. Klemenz , S. Klewin , A. G. Knospe , M. Kowalski , L. Kumar , R. Lang , R. Langoy , L. Lautner , F. Liebske , J. Lien , C. Lippmann , H. M. Ljunggren , W. J. Llope , S. Mahmood , T. Mahmoud , R. Majka , P. Malzacher , A. Marín , C. Markert , S. Masciocchi , A. Mathis , A. Matyja , M. Meres , D. L. Mihaylov , D. Miskowiec , J. Mitra , T. Mittelstaedt , T. Morhardt , J. Mulligan , R. H. Munzer , K. Münning , M. G. Munhoz , S. Muhuri , H. Murakami , B. K. Nandi , H. Natal da Luz , C. Nattrass , T. K. Nayak , R. A. Negrao De Oliveira , M. Nicassio , B. S. Nielsen , L. Oláh , A. Oskarsson , J. Otwinowski , K. Oyama , G. Paić , R. N. Patra , V. Peskov , M. Pikna , L. Pinsky , M. Planinic , M. G. Poghosyan , N. Poljak , F. Pompei , S. K. Prasad , C. A. Pruneau , J. Putschke , S. Raha , J. Rak , J. Rasson , V. Ratza , K. F. Read , A. Rehman , R. Renfordt , T. Richert , K. Røed , D. Röhrich , T. Rudzki , R. Sahoo , S. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , J. Saini , B. Schaefer , J. Schambach , S. Scheid , C. Schmidt , H. R. Schmidt , N. V Schmidt , H. Schulte , K. Schweda , I. Selyuzhenkov , N. Sharma , D. Silvermyr , R. N. Singaraju , B. Sitar , N. Smirnov , S. P. Sorensen , F. Sozzi , J. Stachel , E. Stenlund , P. Strmen , I. Szarka , G. Tambave , K. Terasaki , A. Timmins , K. Ullaland , A. Utrobicic , D. Varga , R. Varma , A. Velure , V. Vislavicius , S. Voloshin , B. Voss , D. Vranic , J. Wiechula , S. Winkler , J. Wikne , B. Windelband , C. Zhao

Probes of Gravitational Waves with Atom Interferometers

Atom interferometers (AIs) on earth and in space offer good capabilities for measuring gravitational waves (GWs) in the mid-frequency deciHz band, complementing the sensitivities of the LIGO/Virgo and LISA experiments and enabling probes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 John Ellis , Ville Vaskonen

Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider

Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, these long-lived particles…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-09-11 Juliette Alimena , James Beacham , Martino Borsato , Yangyang Cheng , Xabier Cid Vidal , Giovanna Cottin , Albert De Roeck , Nishita Desai , David Curtin , Jared A. Evans , Simon Knapen , Sabine Kraml , Andre Lessa , Zhen Liu , Sascha Mehlhase , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Heather Russell , Jessie Shelton , Brian Shuve , Monica Verducci , Jose Zurita , Todd Adams , Michael Adersberger , Cristiano Alpigiani , Artur Apresyan , Robert John Bainbridge , Varvara Batozskaya , Hugues Beauchesne , Lisa Benato , S. Berlendis , Eshwen Bhal , Freya Blekman , Christina Borovilou , Jamie Boyd , Benjamin P. Brau , Lene Bryngemark , Oliver Buchmueller , Malte Buschmann , William Buttinger , Mario Campanelli , Cari Cesarotti , Chunhui Chen , Hsin-Chia Cheng , Sanha Cheong , Matthew Citron , Andrea Coccaro , V. Coco , Eric Conte , Félix Cormier , Louie D. Corpe , Nathaniel Craig , Yanou Cui , Elena Dall'Occo , C. Dallapiccola , M. R. Darwish , Alessandro Davoli , Annapaola de Cosa , Andrea De Simone , Luigi Delle Rose , Frank F. Deppisch , Biplab Dey , Miriam D. Diamond , Keith R. Dienes , Sven Dildick , Babette Döbrich , Marco Drewes , Melanie Eich , M. ElSawy , Alberto Escalante del Valle , Gabriel Facini , Marco Farina , Jonathan L. Feng , Oliver Fischer , H. U. Flaecher , Patrick Foldenauer , Marat Freytsis , Benjamin Fuks , Iftah Galon , Yuri Gershtein , Stefano Giagu , Andrea Giammanco , Vladimir V. Gligorov , Tobias Golling , Sergio Grancagnolo , Giuliano Gustavino , Andrew Haas , Kristian Hahn , Jan Hajer , Ahmed Hammad , Lukas Heinrich , Jan Heisig , J. C. Helo , Gavin Hesketh , Christopher S. Hill , Martin Hirsch , M. Hohlmann , W. Hulsbergen , John Huth , Philip Ilten , Thomas Jacques , Bodhitha Jayatilaka , Geng-Yuan Jeng , K. A. Johns , Toshiaki Kaji , Gregor Kasieczka , Yevgeny Kats , Malgorzata Kazana , Henning Keller , Maxim Yu. Khlopov , Felix Kling , Ted R. Kolberg , Igor Kostiuk , Emma Sian Kuwertz , Audrey Kvam , Greg Landsberg , Gaia Lanfranchi , Iñaki Lara , Alexander Ledovskoy , Dylan Linthorne , Jia Liu , Iacopo Longarini , Steven Lowette , Henry Lubatti , Margaret Lutz , Jingyu Luo , Judita Mamužić , Matthieu Marinangeli , Alberto Mariotti , Daniel Marlow , Matthew McCullough , Kevin McDermott , P. Mermod , David Milstead , Vasiliki A. Mitsou , Javier Montejo Berlingen , Filip Moortgat , Alessandro Morandini , Alice Polyxeni Morris , David Michael Morse , Stephen Mrenna , Benjamin Nachman , Miha Nemevšek , Fabrizio Nesti , Christian Ohm , Silvia Pascoli , Kevin Pedro , Cristián Peña , Karla Josefina Pena Rodriguez , Jónatan Piedra , James L. Pinfold , Antonio Policicchio , Goran Popara , Jessica Prisciandaro , Mason Proffitt , Giorgia Rauco , Federico Redi , Matthew Reece , Allison Reinsvold Hall , H. Rejeb Sfar , Sophie Renner , Amber Roepe , Manfredi Ronzani , Ennio Salvioni , Arka Santra , Ryu Sawada , Jakub Scholtz , Philip Schuster , Pedro Schwaller , Cristiano Sebastiani , Sezen Sekmen , Michele Selvaggi , Weinan Si , Livia Soffi , Daniel Stolarski , David Stuart , John Stupak , Kevin Sung , Wendy Taylor , Sebastian Templ , Brooks Thomas , Emma Torró-Pastor , Daniele Trocino , Sebastian Trojanowski , Marco Trovato , Yuhsin Tsai , C. G. Tully , Tamás Álmos Vámi , Juan Carlos Vasquez , Carlos Vázquez Sierra , K. Vellidis , Basile Vermassen , Martina Vit , Devin G. E. Walker , Xiao-Ping Wang , Gordon Watts , Si Xie , Melissa Yexley , Charles Young , Jiang-Hao Yu , Piotr Zalewski , Yongchao Zhang

Electron Beam for LHC

A method of delivering a monochromatic electron beam to the LHC interaction points is proposed. In this method, heavy ions are used as carriers of the projectile electrons. Acceleration, storage and collision-stability aspects of such a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny

SETI surveys of the nearby and distant universe employing wide-field radio interferometry techniques

Long baseline radio interferometers can provide some interesting opportunities for future SETI searches. Known advantages (compared to single dishes or beam-formed arrays), include the large reduction in false-positives due to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-18 M. A. Garrett

ArDM: a ton-scale LAr detector for direct Dark Matter searches

The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM-1t) experiment is a ton-scale liquid argon (LAr) double-phase time projection chamber designed for direct Dark Matter searches. Such a device allows to explore the low energy frontier in LAr with a charge imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-20 ArDM Collaboration , A. Marchionni , C. Amsler , A. Badertscher , V. Boccone , A. Bueno , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , J. Coleman , W. Creus , A. Curioni , M. Daniel , E. J. Dawe , U. Degunda , A. Gendotti , L. Epprecht , S. Horikawa , L. Kaufmann , L. Knecht , M. Laffranchi , C. Lazzaro , P. K. Lightfoot , D. Lussi , J. Lozano , K. Mavrokoridis , A. Melgarejo , P. Mijakowski , G. Natterer , S. Navas-Concha , P. Otyugova , M. de Prado , P. Przewlocki , C. Regenfus , F. Resnati , M. Robinson , J. Rochet , L. Romero , E. Rondio , A. Rubbia , L. Scotto-Lavina , N. J. C. Spooner , T. Strauss , C. Touramanis , J. Ulbricht , T. Viant

Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC; the ALICE Experiment

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector designed to exploit the physics potential of nucleus-nucleus interactions at the LHC. Being a general purpose experiment, it will allow a comprehensive study of hadrons, electrons, muons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 C. Lourenco

Physics Opportunities with the FCC-hh Injectors

In this chapter we explore a few examples of physics opportunities using the existing chain of accelerators at CERN, including potential upgrades. In this context the LHC ring is also considered as a part of the injector system. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 B. Goddard , G. Isidori , F. Teubert , M. Bai , A. Ball , B. Batell , T. Bowcock , G. Cavoto , A. Ceccucci , M. Chrzaszcz , A. Golutvin , W. Herr , J. Jowett , M. Moulson , T. Nakada , J. Rojo , Y. Semertzidis

The Argon Dark Matter Experiment

The ArDM experiment, a 1 ton liquid argon TPC/Calorimeter, is designed for the detection of dark matter particles which can scatter off the spinless argon nucleus, producing nuclear recoils. These events will be discerned by their light to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-26 Christian Regenfus

Physics Opportunities of a 100 TeV Proton-Proton Collider

The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC exposes some of the most profound mysteries fundamental physics has encountered in decades, opening the door to the next phase of experimental exploration. More than ever, this will necessitate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tao Han , Michelangelo Mangano , Lian-Tao Wang

Chooz and Perry: New Experiments for Long Baseline Reactor Neutrino Oscillations

We discuss the Chooz experiment, a long baseline search for neutrino vacuum oscillations, which will utilize a large gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillation detector one km from a large nuclear power station in France. The 300-meter (water…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Steinberg