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A 100um thick silicon detector with 1mm2 pad readout optimized for sub-nanosecond time resolution has been developed and tested. Coupled to a purposely developed amplifier based on SiGe HBT technology, this detector was characterized at the…

A simulation model is developed to train Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), for precise timing of PICOSEC Micromegas detector signals. The aim is to develop fast, online timing algorithms as well as minimising the information to be saved…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-21 A. Tsiamis , K. Kordas , I. Manthos , M. Tsopoulou , S. E. Tzamarias

A new Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is currently under development for the sPHENIX experiment at RHIC. The TPC will be read out using multistage GEM detectors on each end and will be divided into approximately 40 pad layers in radius. Each…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Azmoun , P. Garg , T. K. Hemmick , M. Hohlmann , A. Kiselev , M. L. Purschke , C. Woody , A. Zhang

First of its kind, the barrel section of the MIP Timing Detector is a large area timing detector based on LYSO:Ce crystals and SiPMs which are required to operate in an unprecedentedly harsh radiation environment (up to an integrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-14 F. Addesa , P. Akrap , A. Albert , B. Allmond , T. Anderson , J. Babbar , D. Baranyai , P. Barria , C. Basile , A. Benaglia , A. Benato , M. Benettoni , M. Besancon , N. Bez , S. Bhattacharya , R. Bianco , D. Blend , A. Boletti , A. Bornheim , R. Bugalho , A. Bulla , B. Cardwell , R. Carlin , M. Casarsa , F. Cetorelli , F. Cossutti , B. Cox , G. Da Molin , F. De Guio , K. De Leo , F. De Riggi , P. Debbins , D. Del Re , R. Delli Gatti , J. Dervan , P. Devouge , K. Dreimanis , O. M. Eberlins , F. Errico , E. Fernandez , W. Funk , A. Gaile , M. Gallinaro , R. Gargiulo , R. Gerosa , A. Ghezzi , B. Gyongyosi , Z. Hao , A. H. Heering , Z. Hu , R. Isocrate , M. Jose , A. Karneyeu , M. S. Kim , A. Krishna , B. Kronheim , O. K. Köseyan , A. Ledovskoy , L. Li , Z. Li , V. Lohezic , F. Lombardi , M. T. Lucchini , M. Malberti , Y. Mao , Y. Maravin , B. Marzocchi , D. Mazzaro , R. Menon Raghunandanan , P. Meridiani , C. Munoz Diaz , Y. Musienko , S. Nargelas , L. L. Narváez , C. Neu , G. Organtini , T. Orimoto , D. Osite , M. Paganoni , S. Palluotto , C. Palmer , N. Palmeri , F. Pandolfi , R. Paramatti , T. Pauletto , A. Perego , G. Pikurs , G. Pizzati , R. Plese , C. Quaranta , G. Reales Gutiérrez , N. Redaelli , S. Ronchi , R. Rossin , M. Ö. Sahin , F. Santanastasio , I. Schmidt , D. Sidiropoulos Kontos , T. Sievert , R. Silva , P. Simmerling , L. Soffi , P. Solanki , G. Sorrentino , M. Spiropulu , N. R. Strautnieks , X. Sun , D. D. Szabo , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , G. Tamulaitis , R. Taylor , M. Titov , M. Tosi , G. Trabucco , A. Tsirou , C. Tully , M. Turcato , B. Ujvari , J. Varela , F. Veronese , V. Vladimirov , J. Wang , M. Wayne , S. White , Z. Wu , J. W. Wulff , R. A. Wynne , L. Zhang , M. Zhang , G. Zilizi

An upgrade of the near detector of the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is currently being conducted. This upgrade will include two new Time Projection Chambers, each equipped with 16 charge readout resistive Micromegas…

Large Area Picosecond PhotoDetectors (LAPPDs) are photosensors based on microchannel plate technology with about 400 cm$^2$ sensitive area. The external readout plane of a capacitively coupled LAPPD can be segmented into pads providing a…

We present a detailed study of an 8-channel $1\times1$ mm$^{2}$ WSi superconducting microwire single photon detector (SMSPD) array exposed to 120 GeV hadron beam and 120 GeV muon beam at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron H6 beamline.…

Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) such as Micromegas or GEM are used in particle physics experiments for their capabilities in particle tracking at high rates. Their excellent position resolutions are well known but their energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Zerguerras , B. Genolini , V. Lepeltier , J. Peyre , J. Pouthas , P. Rosier

In the new era of HL-LHC experiments, fast-timing detectors are emerging as critical tools for background rejection. Typical requirements include a temporal hit resolution of about 50 ps, a spatial resolution of around 12 $\mu$m, and…

MiniCACTUS is a monolithic sensor prototype optimised for timing measurement of charged particles. It has been designed in a standard 150 nm CMOS process without dedicated amplification layer. It is intended as a demonstrator chip for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-18 Yavuz Degerli , Fabrice Guilloux , Tomasz Hemperek , Jean-Pierre Meyer , Philippe Schwemling

Micromegas detector is considered to be a promising candidate for a large variety of high-rate experiments. Micromegas of various geometries have already been established as appropriate for these experiments for their performances in terms…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-11 Purba Bhattacharya , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar , Sudeb Bhattacharya

We present the development of a single-photon detector and the connected read-out electronics. This `hybrid' detector is based on a vacuum tube, transmission photocathode, microchannel plate and a pixelated CMOS read-out anode encapsulating…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-06 J. A. Alozy , N. V. Biesuz , M. Campbell , V. Cavallini , A. Cotta Ramusino , M. Fiorini , M. Guarise , X. Llopart Cudie

Cosmic ray muon has strong penetrating power and no ionizing radiation hazards, which makes it an ideal probe for detecting special nuclear materials. In this paper, a high spatial resolution muon tomography system based on Micromegas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-16 Yu Wang , Zhiyong Zhang , Shubin Liu , Zhongtao Shen , Changqing Feng , Jianguo Liu , Yulin Liu

The Micromegas technology is one of the most successful MPGD concepts and widely utilized in nuclear and particle physics experiments. Twenty years of research and development rendered the technology sufficiently mature to be selected as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-10 Fabian Kuger

Calorimetry at future linear colliders could be based on a particle flow approach where granularity is the key to high jet energy resolution. Among different technologies, Micromegas chambers with 1 cm2 pad segmentation are studied for the…

The promise of increasing channel counts in high density ($> 10^4$) neural Microelectrode Arrays (MEAs) for high resolution recording comes with the curse of developing faster characterization strategies for concurrent acquisition of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Akwasi Akwaboah , Ralph Etienne-Cummings

In the last years, high-resolution time tagging has emerged as the tool to tackle the problem of high-track density in the detectors of the next generation of experiments at particle colliders. Time resolutions below 50ps and event average…

Time and charge measurements over a large dynamic range from 1 Photo Electron (P.E.) to 4000 P.E. are required for the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA), which is one of the key components in the Large High Altitude Air Shower…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-26 Yu Liang , Lei Zhao , Yuxiang Guo , Jiajun Qin , Yunfang Yang , Boyu Cheng , Shubin Liu , Qi An

Detecting the topology and direction of low-energy nuclear and electronic recoils is broadly desirable in nuclear and particle physics, with applications in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, astrophysical neutrino measurements,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-31 Majd Ghrear , Alasdair G. McLean , Hima B. Korandla , Ferdos Dastgiri , Neil J. C. Spooner , Sven E. Vahsen