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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory that is expected to reach one order of magnitude better sensitivity than that of current telescope arrays. The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) have an essential…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Yukiho Kobayashi , Akira Okumura , Franca Cassol , Hideaki Katagiri , Julian Sitarek , Paweł Gliwny , Seiya Nozaki , Yuto Nogami

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Leslie Taylor

Night Sky Background (NSB) is a complex phenomenon, consisting of all light detected by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) not attributable to Cherenkov light emission. Understanding the effect of NSB on cameras for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-20 Samuel Timothy Spencer , Jason John Watson , Gianluca Giavitto , Garret Cotter , Richard White

The transmission electron microscope facilitates the highest-resolution imaging of any instrument ever created, and its limiting factor is no longer spatial resolution but dose efficiency. Low electron doses avoid sample damage but produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Georgia Channing , Debora Keller , Marta D. Rossell , Philip Torr , Stig Helveg , Henrik Eliasson

We present the design and performance of the On-Board electronics for the Drift Tubes (OBDT) for the superlayer theta along the direction parallel to the beam-line, the new board built to substitute part of the CMS DT Muon on-detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-09 J. Sastre , C. F. Bedoya , S. Cuadrado , J. Cuchillo , D. Francia , C. de Lara , A. Navarro , R. Paz , I. Redondo , D. Redondo

In digital baseband processing, the forward error correction (FEC) unit belongs to the most demanding components in terms of computational complexity and power consumption. Hence, efficient implementation of FEC decoders is crucial for next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Claus Kestel , Lucas Johannsen , Norbert Wehn

Future experiments of nuclear and particle physics are moving towards the high luminosity regime, in order to access suppressed processes like rare B decays or exotic charmonium resonances. In this scenario, high rate capability is a key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-18 M. Cardinali , O. Corell , M. I. Ferretti Bondy , M. Hoek , W. Lauth , C. Rosner , C. Sfienti , M. Thiel

The n_TOF facility has just undergone in 2021 a major upgrade with the installation of its third generation spallation target that has been designed to optimize the performance of the two n_TOF time-of-flight lines. This contribution…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-06-21 J. Lerendegui-Marco , A. Casanovas , V. Alcayne , the n_TOF Collaboration

An optical link system is being developed for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-II upgrade. The optical link system is responsible for transmit the data of over 182 thousand detector channels from 1524 Front-End Boards (FEBs) through…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-03 B. Deng , C. Liu , D. Gong , X. Huang , S. Hou , T. Liu , H. Sun , L. Zhang , W. Zhang , J. Ye

Mod-Cam is a first light and commissioning instrument for the CCAT-prime project's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), currently under construction at 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in Chile's Atacama Desert.…

The central institute of electronics (ZEA-2) in the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) has developed a system to scan the response of the photocathode of photomultiplier tubes (PMT). The PMT sits tight on a supporting structure, while a blue…

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The STAR experiment at RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory completed the installation of an endcap time-of-flight subsystem (eTOF) in February 2019. The eTOF subsystem provided essential mid-rapidity particle identification (PID) for the…

The transverse current profile in the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) electron beam can be monitored at several locations along the beam line by means of profile monitors. These consist of insertable phosphor screens, light…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Nantista , C. Adolphsen , R. L. Brown , R. Fuller , J. Rifkin

The Extended Analogue Silicon Photo-multiplier Integrated Read Out Chip, EASIROC, is a chip proposed as front-end of the camera at the focal plane of the imaging Cherenkov ASTRI SST-2M telescope prototype. This paper presents the results of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-30 D. Impiombato , S. Giarrusso , T. Mineo , M. Belluso , S. Billotta , G. Bonanno , O. Catalano , A. Grillo , G. La Rosa , D. Marano , G. Sottile

i-TED consists of both a total energy detector and a Compton camera primarily intended for the measurement of neutron capture cross sections by means of the simultaneous combination of neutron time-of-flight (TOF) and $\gamma$-ray imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-24 V. Babiano , J. Balibrea , L. Caballero , D. Calvo , I. Ladarescu , J. Lerendegui , S. Mira Prats , C. Domingo-Pardo

We present details of the design for the CCD readout electronics for the Subaru Telescope Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS). The spectrograph is comprised of four identical spectrograph modules, each collecting roughly 600 spectra. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Stephen C. Hope , James E. Gunn , Craig P. Loomis , Roger E. Fitzgerald , Grant O. Peacock

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments and is planned to be built on two sites (one in each hemisphere) in the coming years, with full array operation foreseen to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jan Ebr , Petr Janecek , Michael Prouza , Jiri Blazek

View Transformation Module (VTM), where transformations happen between multi-view image features and Bird-Eye-View (BEV) representation, is a crucial step in camera-based BEV perception systems. Currently, the two most prominent VTM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhiqi Li , Zhiding Yu , Wenhai Wang , Anima Anandkumar , Tong Lu , Jose M. Alvarez

The purpose of this study was to show how advanced concepts of compact, lossless and "Time Of Flight" (TOF) capable electronics similar to those foreseen for the LHC and ILC experiments could be fairly and easily transferred to the medical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-03 P. -E. Vert , J. Lecoq , G. Montarou , N. Pauna , B. Joly , M. Boutemeur , H. Mathez , R. Gaglione , P. Le Dû

We present a lightweight encoder-decoder architecture for monocular depth estimation, specifically designed for embedded platforms. Our main contribution is the Guided Upsampling Block (GUB) for building the decoder of our model. Motivated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Michael Rudolph , Youssef Dawoud , Ronja Güldenring , Lazaros Nalpantidis , Vasileios Belagiannis