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We describe the design, construction and performance of a Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector (RICH) constructed to identify charged particles in the CLEO experiment. Cherenkov radiation occurs in LiF crystals, both planar and ones with a novel…

The possibilty of performing high-rate calorimetry with a slow scintillator crystal is studied. In this experimental situation, to avoid pulse pile-up, it can be necessary to base the energy measurement on only a fraction of the emitted…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Bocci , D. Chao , G. Chiodi , R. Faccini , F. Ferroni , R. Lunadei , G. Martellotti , G. Penso , D. Pinci , L. Recchia

As a prototype detector for the SHiP Surrounding Background Tagger (SBT), we constructed a cell (120 cm x 80 cm x 25 cm) made from corten steel that is filled with liquid scintillator (LS) composed of linear alkylbenzene (LAB) and…

Ceramics ZnO:Zn of 20mm diameter and 1.6mm thickness with an optical transparency up to 0.33 in the visible region have been prepared by hot pressing technique. Scintillating and luminescent characteristics such as emission spectra, decay…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-17 V. A. Demidenko , E. I. Gorokhova , I. V. Khodyuk , O. A. Khristich , S. B. Mikhrin , P. A. Rodnyi

The PICOSEC Micromegas detector is a precise-timing gaseous detector that combines a Cherenkov radiator, a semi-transparent photocathode and a Micromegas amplification stage, targeting time resolutions of tens of picoseconds for minimum…

Radiation detection is vital for space, medical imaging, homeland security, and environmental monitoring applications. In the past, the Monte Carlo radiation transport toolkit, Geant4, has been employed to enable the effective development…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-14 Lysander Miller , Airlie Chapman , Katie Auchettl , Jeremy M. C. Brown

ZnO-based scintillation ceramics for application in HENPA LENPA analyzers have been investigated. The following ceramic samples have been prepared: undoped ones (ZnO), an excess of zinc in stoichiometry (ZnO:Zn), doped with gallium (ZnO:Ga)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 P. A. Rodnyi , K. A. Chernenko , E. I. Gorokhova , S. S. Kozlovskii , V. M. Khanin , I. V. Khodyuk

In this paper the efficiency of direct charged particle detection with different Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) sensors has been measured to be close to 100%. Time resolution of about 20 ps has also been confirmed for sensors with an active…

Several prototypes of a Cherenkov Correlated Timing (CCT) Detector have been tested at the KEK-PS test beam line. We describe the results for Cherenkov light yields and timing characteristics from quartz and acrylic bar prototypes. A…

We have developed a new laser-based time calibration system for highly segmented scintillator counters like the MEG II pixelated Timing Counter (pTC), consisting of 512-centimeter scale scintillator counters read out by silicon…

We are constructing a Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector (RICH) for the CLEO III upgrade for precision charged hadron identification. The RICH uses plane and sawtooth LiF crystals as radiators, MWPCs as photon detectors with TEA as the…

The Muon Scattering Experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut uses a mixed beam of electrons, muons, and pions, necessitating precise timing to identify the beam particles and reactions they cause. We describe the design and performance of…

We discuss the design and performance of a threshold Cerenkov counter for identification of charged hadrons. The radiator is pressurized gas, which is contained in thin-walled cylindrical modules. A mirror system of novel design transports…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Sivertz , Bruce Berger , Richard Ehrlich , John Bartlet , Steven Csorna , Vivek Jain , Szabolcs Marka , Kay Kinoshita , Paula Pomianowski

Dual-readout calorimeters achieve superior energy resolution by simultaneously measuring Cherenkov and scintillation signals for event-by-event electromagnetic fraction correction, making them attractive for next-generation Higgs factories.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-30 Liangyu Wu , Qibin Liu , Marco Toliman Lucchini , Julia Gonski , Marcello Campajola , Stefano Moneta

We propose a new scintillation-type detector in which high-energy radiation produces electron-hole pairs in a direct-gap semiconductor material that subsequently recombine producing infrared light to be registered by a photo-detector. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Kastalsky , S. Luryi , B. Spivak

We report on the measurements performed using a 22Na source on a detector element for an MRI-compatible TOF-PET endorectal prostate probe, with Depth-Of-Interaction sensitivity. It is made from a LYSO scintillator crystal, wrapped with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 Luigi Cosentino , Paolo Finocchiaro , Alfio Pappalardo , Franco Garibaldi

Bismuth germanate (BGO) is gaining renewed attention as a viable material for hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) detectors. While single-crystal studies have demonstrated excellent timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-27 Minseok Yi , Daehee Lee , Alberto Gola , Stefano Merzi , Michele Penna , Simon R. Cherry , Jae Sung Lee , Sun Il Kwon

The Beam Instrumentation group at CERN has developed a new scintillating fibre beam monitor for the measurement of secondary particle beams in the CERN Experimental Areas. The monitor has a simple design that stands out for its low material…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-29 I. Ortega , L. Fosse , J. Franchi , A. Frassier , J. Fullerton , J. Kral , J. Lauener , T. Schneider , G. Tranquille

For future $\mu^+ \to e^+ \gamma$ search experiments with a branching-ratio sensitivity of $10^{-15}$, we are developing a photon pair-spectrometer employing an active LYSO converter, aiming at target resolutions of 30 ps in timing and 200…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-13 Sei Ban , Lukas Gerritzen , Fumihito Ikeda , Toshiyuki Iwamoto , Wataru Ootani , Atsushi Oya , Rei Sakakibara , Rintaro Yokota

The detection of 200-1000 MeV neutrons requires large amounts, $\sim$100 cm, of detector material because of the long nuclear interaction length of these particles. In the example of the NeuLAND neutron time-of-flight detector at FAIR, this…