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Dense tracking environments in experiments at CERN's High-Luminosity LHC and future FCC experiments call for an increased use of timing information in addition to the position measurement of pixel detectors. This adds one dimension to the…

We report the timing analysis results of X-ray pulsars from a recent deep Chandra survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We have analyzed a total exposure of 1.4 Ms from 31 observations over a 1.2 deg$^2$ region in the SMC under a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-04 JaeSub Hong , Vallia Antoniou , Andreas Zezas , Frank Haberl , Manami Sasaki , Jeremy Drake , Paul Plucinsky , Silas Laycock

Most materials recently developed for room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) lack of practical relevance due to their inconvenient crystalline morphology. Using amorphous material systems instead, programmable luminescent tags (PLTs) based…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Max Gmelch , Tim Achenbach , Ausra Tomkeviciene , Sebastian Reineke

We present precise phase-connected pulse timing solutions for 16 gamma-ray-selected pulsars recently discovered using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope plus one very faint radio pulsar (PSR J1124-5916)…

X-ray imaging is an invaluable tool for noninvasive analysis in many fields ranging from basic science to medicine and security. The development of low-dose large area imaging solutions still represents an important challenge for various…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-07 M. Simões , P. Vaz , A. F. V. Cortez

Millisecond pulsars are intrinsically very stable clocks and precise measurement of their observed pulse periods can be used to study a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. In particular, observations of a large sample of millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 R. N. Manchester

Most of the time-of-flight systems as well as the fast interaction trigger detectors have large surfaces and the principal requirements for the above mentioned detectors is a good time resolution of the order 100-200ps. The easiest solution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-18 Varlen Grabski

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success in various domains. While efficient alternatives to Softmax Attention have been widely studied, the search for more expressive mechanisms grounded in theoretical insight-even at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yifei Zuo , Yutong Yin , Zhichen Zeng , Ang Li , Banghua Zhu , Zhaoran Wang

The discovery of pulsars in 1968 heralded an era where the temporal characteristics of detectors had to be reassessed. Up to this point detector integration times would normally be measured in minutes rather seconds and definitely not on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andy Shearer

In this paper, the design and characterization of AC-LGAD sensors at the University of Science and Technology of China is introduced. The sensors are characterized with an infrared laser Transient Current Technique (TCT) system for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-16 Han Li , Xiao Yang , Kuo Ma , Hang Yang , Aonan Wang , De Zhang , Tianao Wang , Xiangxuan Zheng , Jiajin Ge , Yusheng Wu , Hao Liang , Yanwen Liu

We derive expressions for the time resolution of silicon detectors, using the Landau theory and a PAI model for describing the charge deposit of high energy particles. First we use the centroid time of the induced signal and derive analytic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-27 Werner Riegler , Gianluca Aglieri Rinella

An important issue for rare-event-search experiments, such as the search for dark matter or neutrinoless double beta decay, is to reduce radioactivity of the detector materials and the experimental environment. The selection of materials…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 H. Ito , T. Hashimoto , K. Miuchi , K. Kobayashi , Y. Takeuchi , K. D. Nakamura , T. Ikeda , H. Ishiura

In order to improve the time precision of detectors based on diamonds sensors we have built a detector with two scCVD layers connected in parallel to the same amplifier. This note describes the design and the first measurements of such a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-26 M. Berretti , E. Bossini , M. Bozzo , V. Georgiev , T. Isidori , R. Linhart , N. Turini

Depleted monolithic CMOS active pixel sensors (DMAPS) have been developed in order to demonstrate their suitability as pixel detectors in the outer layers of a toroidal LHC apparatus inner tracker (ATLAS ITk) pixel detector in the…

X-ray scattering has been an indispensable tool in advancing our understanding of matter, from the first evidence of the crystal lattice to recent discoveries of nuclei's fastest dynamics. In addition to the lattice, ultrafast resonant…

With the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) the number of collisions per bunch crossing increases. To cope with these high rates in the pixel trackers, per-pixel time measurements are required, which implies the need for fast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-18 Daan Oppenhuis

This paper deals with the problem of detecting maritime targets embedded in nonhomogeneous sea clutter, where limited number of secondary data is available due to the heterogeneity of sea clutter. A class of linear discriminant analysis…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Xiaoqiang Hua , Linyu Peng , Weijian Liu , Yongqiang Cheng , Hongqiang Wang , Huafei Sun , Zhenghua Wang

Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) is a critical component in monitoring complex systems, yet modern deep learning-based detectors are often highly sensitive to localized input corruptions and structured noise. We propose ARTA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

We present and analyze ALMA submillimeter observations from a multi-wavelength campaign of Sgr A* during 18 July 2019. In addition to the submillimeter, we utilize concurrent mid-IR (Spitzer) and X-ray (Chandra) observations. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Joseph M. Michail , Mark Wardle , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh , Devaky Kunneriath

We present results of a timing analysis of various isolated pulsars using ESA's \emph{XMM-Newton} observatory. Isolated pulsars are useful for calibration purposes because of their stable emission. We have analyzed six pulsars with…

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