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The current state of the art in fast timing resolution for existing experiments is of the order of 100 ps on the time of arrival of both charged particles and electromagnetic showers. Current R&D on charged particle timing is approaching…

Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (DMAPS) constitute a promising low cost alternative for the outer layers of the ATLAS experiment Inner Tracker (ITk). Realizations in modern, high resistivity CMOS technologies enhance their…

A new type of gaseous micropattern particle detector based on a closed-cell microcavity plasma panel sensor is reported. The first device was fabricated with 1 x 1 x 2 mm cells. It has shown very clean signals of 0.6 to 2.5 volt amplitude,…

We present results for time resolution studies performed on three different scintillating plastics and two silicon photo-multipliers. These studies are intended to determine whether scintillating plastic/silicon photo-multiplier systems can…

We present a comprehensive characterization of the LAPPD Gen-II, a large-area microchannel-plate photomultiplier tube (MCP-PMT) equipped with a capacitively coupled sensing (readout) electrode. Two detector variants with different…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-03 S. Korpar , R. Dolenec , F. Grijalva , A. Lozar , A. Kodrič , P. Križan , S. Parashari , R. Pestotnik , A. Seljak , D. Žontar

The performance of several trigger counters based on plastic scintillators with silicon photomultiplier readout is investigated with cosmic rays. Efficiency and time resolution are measured using digital waveform analysis. The obtained…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-21 Marco Alberto Ayala-Torres , Luis Manuel Montaño Zetina , Marcos Fontaine Sánchez

The detectors with $\mathcal{O}$(10) $\mu$m spatial resolution and $\mathcal{O}$(10) ps timing resolution construct powerful particle trackers for future hadron or lepton collider experiments. LGAD: Low-Gain-Avalanche-Diode is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-17 Tomoka Imamura , Sayuka Kita , Koji Nakamura , Kazuhiko Hara

The variety of applications and especially the unique European XFEL time structure will require adequate instrumentation to be developed to exploit the full potential of the light source. Two-dimensional integrating X-ray detectors with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 Andreas Koch , Markus Kuster , Jolanta Sztuk-Dambietz , Monica Turcato

LGAD technology is established within the field of particle physics, as the baseline technology for the timing detectors of both the ATLAS and CMS upgrades at the HL-LHC. Pixelated LGADs have been proposed for the High Granularity Timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-02 A. Doblas , D. Flores , S. Hidalgo , N. Moffat , G. Pellegrini , D. Quirion , J. Villegas , D. Maneuski , M. Ruat , P. Fajardo

In this study, we propose a fast implementation of a Maximum Likelihood Positioning (MLP) algorithm to estimate the energy and identify the active scintillator pixel in staggered layer scintillation detectors for PET. The staggered layer…

A second monolithic silicon pixel prototype was produced for the MONOLITH project. The ASIC contains a matrix of hexagonal pixels with 100 {\mu}m pitch, readout by a low-noise and very fast SiGe HBT frontend electronics. Wafers with 50…

Within the ATTRACT FASTPIX project, a monolithic pixel sensor demonstrator chip has been developed in a modified 180 nm CMOS imaging process technology, targeting sub-nanosecond timing precision for single ionising particles. It features a…

Timing-pick up detectors with excellent timing resolutions are essential in many modern nuclear physics experiments. Aiming to develop a Time-Of-Flight system with precision down to about 10 ps, we have made a systematic study of the timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-19 J. W. Zhao , B. H. Sun , I. Tanihata , S. Terashima , L. H. Zhu , A. Enomoto , D. Nagae , T. Nishimura , S. Omika , A. Ozawa , Y. Takeuchi , T. Yamaguchi

A challenging goal of 20 ps for the total time resolution of the Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) system has been recently addressed by high energy physics experiments. In order to meet this requirement, one should have a deeper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-15 Fuyue Wang , Dong Han , Yi Wang , Pengfei Lyu , Yuanjing Li

The design and tests of Timing Counter elements for the upgrade of the MEG experiment, MEG II,is presented. The detector is based on several small plates of scintillator with a Silicon PhotoMultipliers dual-side readout. The optimisation of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , W. Ootani , Y. Uchiyama , M. Nishimura , S. Shirabe , P. W. Cattaneo , M. Rossella

An ever-increasing demand for high-performance silicon sensors requires complex sensor designs that are challenging to simulate and model. The combination of electrostatic finite element simulations with a transient Monte Carlo approach…

During the High Luminosity phase of LHC, up to 200 proton-proton collisions per bunch crossing will bring severe challenges for event reconstruction. To mitigate pileup effects, an extended upgrade program of the CMS experiment is expected.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-23 Simona Palluotto

AXTAR is a NASA MIDEX mission concept for X-ray timing of compact objects that combines very large collecting area, broadband spectral coverage, high time resolution, highly flexible scheduling, and an ability to respond promptly to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-16 Paul S. Ray , Bernard F. Phlips , Kent S. Wood , Deepto Chakrabarty , Ronald A. Remillard , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge