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We present the program optics that simulates the light response of an arbitrarily shaped scintillation particle detector. Predicted light responses of pure CsI polygonal detectors, plastic scintillator staves, cylindrical plastic target…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Frlez , B. K. Wright , D. Pocanic

We characterize the performance of two pixelated neutron detectors: a PMT-based array that utilizes Anger logic for pixel identification and a SiPM-based array that employs individual pixel readout. The SiPM-based array offers improved…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-31 J. Balajthy , P. Marleau , M. Sweany

A hybrid dual-readout calorimeter concept, comprising both electromagnetic and hadronic sections, has recently been proposed to meet the performance requirements of experiments at future e$^{+}$e$^{-}$ colliders. The front compartment…

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High-quality radio frequency (RF) components are imperative for efficient wireless communication. However, these components can degrade over time and need to be identified so that either they can be replaced or their effects can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Mehmet Ali Aygul , Ebubekir Memisoglu , Hakan Ali Cirpan , Huseyin Arslan

Clusters of wave-scattering oscillators offer the ability to passively control wave energy in elastic continua. However, designing such clusters to achieve a desired wave energy pattern is a highly nontrivial task. While the forward…

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Machine-learned potentials (MLPs) trained on ab initio data combine the computational efficiency of classical interatomic potentials with the accuracy and generality of the first-principles method used in the creation of the respective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Leonid Kahle , Benoit Minisini , Tai Bui , Jeremy T. First , Corneliu Buda , Thomas Goldman , Erich Wimmer

The FLASH effect holds significant potential in improving radiotherapy treatment outcomes. Very high energy electrons (VHEEs) can effectively target tumors deep in the body and can be accelerated to achieve ultra-high dose rates (UHDR),…

A first comparison has been made between the pulse-shape discrimination characteristics of a novel $^{4}$He-based pressurized scintillation detector and a NE-213 liquid-scintillator reference detector using an Am/Be mixed-field neutron and…

For a long time, scintillator detectors have suffered from relatively weak spatial resolution due to various influencing factors. Additionally, the high cost of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) has limited the widespread adoption of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-29 S. K. Lv , C. S. Dai , D. D. Hu , T. C. Zhong , W. F. Wu , X. J. Wang

This study introduces the HYPERSCINT research platform, the first commercially available scintillation dosimetry platform capable of multi-point dosimetry through the hyperspectral approach. Optic and dosimetric performances of the system…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-19 Emilie Jean , Francois Therriault-Proulx , Luc Beaulieu

Pulsars are the only cosmic radio sources known to be sufficiently compact to show diffractive interstellar scintillations. Images of the variance of radio signals in both time and frequency can be used to detect pulsars in large-scale…

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Organic semiconductors are promising materials for cheap, scalable and sustainable electronics, light-emitting diodes and photovoltaics. For organic photovoltaic cells, it is a challenge to find compounds with suitable properties in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-06 Christopher Gaul , Santiago Cuesta-Lopez

Scintillating fibre detectors combine sub-mm resolution particle tracking, precise measurements of the particle stopping power and sub-ns time resolution. Typically, fibres are read out with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Hence, if fibres…

In powder diffraction data analysis, phase identification is the process of determining the crystalline phases in a sample using its characteristic Bragg peaks. For multiphasic spectra, we must also determine the relative weight fraction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Patrick Hosein , Jaimie Greasley

With the goal of enabling ultrareliable and low-latency wireless communications for industrial internet of things (IIoT), this paper studies the use of energy-based modulations in noncoherent massive single-input multiple-output (SIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Marc Vilà-Insa , Aniol Martí , Jaume Riba , Meritxell Lamarca

We present an efficient machine learning framework for detection and classification of nanoparticles on surfaces that are detected in the far-field with Coherent Fourier Scatterometry (CFS). We study silicon wafers contaminated with…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 D. Kolenov , S. F. Pereira

Plastic scintillators are widely used as particle detectors in many fields, mainly, medicine, particle physics and astrophysics. Traditionally, they are coupled to a photo-multplier (PMT) but now silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM) are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 G. Ros , G. Sáez-Cano , G. A. Medina-Tanco , A. D. Supanitsky

An innovative particle detector that offers a compelling combination of cost-effectiveness and high accuracy is introduced. The detector features plastic scintillators paired with a sparse arrangement of SiPMs, strategically positioned…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-15 Yoav Simhony , Alex Segal , Yuri Orlov , Ofer Amrani , Erez Etzion

We present a unified theoretical framework linking second and fourth order statistical correlations of stochastic electromagnetic beams to the scintillation index observed after propagation through Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence. We…

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