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(Gd,La)$_2$Si$_2$O$_7$:Ce (La-GPS:Ce) is a new scintillator material with high light output, high energy resolution, and fast decay time. Moreover, the scintillator has a good light output even at high temperature (up to 150$^\circ$C) and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-02 Keita Mizukoshi , Takashi Iida , Izumi Ogawa , Kensei Shimizu , Shunsuke Kurosawa , Kei Kamada , Masao Yoshino , Akira Yoshikawa

A novel beam profiler based on microstructured scintillation resin is presented. The detector consists of a bundle of waveguides, with an active area of 30 x 30 mm$^2$ and a pitch of 400 $\mu$m, obtained by molding a scintillating resin…

The performance of a detector using liquid xenon (LXe) as a scintillator is strongly dependent on the collection efficiency for xenon scintillation light, which in turn is critically dependent on the reflectance of the surfaces that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 F. Neves , A. Lindote , A. Morozov , V. Solovov , C. Silva , P. Bras , J. P. Rodrigues , M. I. Lopes

We report the first clear observation of neutron/gamma-ray pulse-shape sensitivity of a fully-instrumented 8 $\times$ 8 array of plastic scintillator segments coupled to two 5 cm $\times$ 5 cm 64-channel SiPM arrays as part of a study of…

Plastic scintillators detectors (PSDs) have been studied as dosimeters, since they provide a cost-effective alternative to conventional ionization chambers. Measurement and analysis of energy dependency were performed on a Siemens Mammomat…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-06 J. Antunes , J. Machado , L. Peralta , N. Matela

Semi monolithic detector designs with a series of stacked thin monolithic scintillator plates and side readout are an attractive approach for potentially achieving very high performance in a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-12 Shiv K. Subedi , Simon R. Cherry , Yi Qiang , Peng Peng

We present results of simulations performed with the Geant4 software code of the effects of Galactic Cosmic Ray impacts on the photoconductor arrays of the PACS instrument. This instrument is part of the ESA-Herschel payload, which will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bongardo , P. Andreani , G. De Zotti

We report on a highly selective experimental setup for particle-$\gamma$ coincidence experiments at the Super-Enge Split-Pole Spectrograph (SE-SPS) of the John D. Fox Superconducting Linear Accelerator Laboratory at Florida State University…

A Compton gamma imager has been developed for use in consequence management operations and in security investigations. The imager uses solid inorganic scintillator, known for robust performance in field survey conditions. The design was…

Positron physics touches on a wide-ranging variety of fields from materials science to medical imaging to high energy physics. In this paper we present the development of a flexible positron annihilation spectrometer appropriate for the…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-08-01 Jason Engbrecht , Nathaniel Hillson

Organic scintillators are widely used for fast neutron detection and spectroscopy. Several effects complicate the interpretation of results from detectors based upon these materials. First, fast neutrons will often leave a detector before…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-29 N. S. Bowden , P. Marleau , J. T. Steele , S. Mrowka , G. Aigeldinger , W. Mengesha

Given the unprecedented effective area, the new ATHENA Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) focusing technology, the dynamic and variable L2 environment, where no X-ray mission has flown up to date, a dedicated Geant4 simulation campaign is needed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Simone Lotti , Claudio Macculi , Teresa Mineo , Luigi Piro , Debora Bruno , Massimo Cappi , Mauro Dadina

The main challenges posed by the design of future Positron Emission Tomography machines are the improvement of the spatial and timing resolution and the combined operation with magnetic resonance. The Micro Pixel Photon Counter by Hamamatsu…

Medical Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 N. D'Ascenzo , E. Garutti , M. Goettlich , H. C. Schultz-Coulon , A. Tadday

Scintillator doped with a high neutron-capture cross-section material can be used to detect neutrons via their resulting gamma rays. Examples of such detectors using liquid scintillator have been successfully used in high-energy physics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-01 D. M. Poehlmann , D. Barker , H. Chagani , P. Cushman , G. Heuermann , A. Medved , H. E. Rogers , R. Schmitz

We constructed a gamma-ray detector by combining two types of scintillator array detectors with an MPPC array and evaluated the spectral performance by reading out the signals from the MPPC with a low-power integrated circuit (ASIC)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-16 Daiki Nobashi , Kazutaka Yamaoka , Hiroyasu Tajima , Kazuya Ito

The last decade has witnessed the development of several alternative neutron detector technologies, as a consequence of upcoming neutron sources and upgrades, as well the world-wide shortage of $^3$He. One branch of development is the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 M. Klausz , K. Kanaki , P. Zagyvai , R. J. Hall-Wilton

In the last decade direct detection Dark Matter (DM) experiments have increased enormously their sensitivity and ton-scale setups have been proposed, especially using germanium and xenon targets with double readout and background…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. G. Cerdeno , C. Cuesta , M. Fornasa , E. Garcia , C. Ginestra , C. Marcos , M. Martinez , Y. Ortigoza , M. Peiro , J. Puimedon , M. L. Sarsa

This work is the second part of a simulation study investigating the processing of densely packed and moving granular assemblies by positron emission particle tracking (PEPT). Since medical PET scanners commonly used for PEPT are very…

Xenon is a widely used detector target material due to its excellent scintillation properties in the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum. The additional use of infrared (IR) scintillation light could improve future detectors. However, a comprehensive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-12 Mona Piotter , Dominick Cichon , Robert Hammann , Florian Jörg , Luisa Hötzsch , Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia

We present a Geant4-based simulation study of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) for three commonly used detector targets: Germanium, Argon, and Xenon. A custom CEvNS model was implemented, including differential cross…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-20 Yusuf Havvat