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We report on the 3-year INFN ATLAS-CMS joint research activity in collaboration with FBK, started in 2014, and aimed at the development of new thin pixel detectors for the High Luminosity LHC Phase-2 upgrades. The program is concerned with…

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a cosmic ray (CR) experiment that will operate on the International Space Station for three years, measuring the particle spectra in the rigidity range from 0.2 GV to 2 TV. The AMS-02 detector will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Diego Casadei

The LHCb detector will be upgraded to make more efficient use of the available luminosity at the LHC in Run III and extend its potential for discovery. The Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors are key components of the LHCb detector for…

The ALICE Collaboration proposes a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Runs 5 and 6. The detector consists of a large pixel-based tracking system covering eight units of pseudorapidity, complemented by multiple systems for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-27 Nicola Nicassio

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) studies the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP): a deconfined state of matter obtained in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. One of the probes for QGP study are quarkonia and open heavy flavour, of which…

The new Inner Tracking System (ITS2) is instrumental for tracking and vertex reconstruction in the ALICE experiment. The new tracker consists of seven cylindrical layers equipped with silicon Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-21 A. Isakov

For cosmic particle spectroscopy on the International Space Station the AMS experiment will be equipped with a Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) to improve particle identification. The TRD has 20 layers of fleece radiator with Xe/CO2…

The Electron-Ion Collider~(EIC), a forthcoming powerful high-luminosity facility, represents an exciting opportunity to explore new physics. In this article, we study the potential of the EIC to probe the coupling between axion-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-01 Reuven Balkin , Or Hen , Wenliang Li , Hongkai Liu , Teng Ma , Yotam Soreq , Mike Williams

The experimental requirements in near future accelerators (e.g. High Luminosity-LHC) has stimulated intense interest in development of detectors with high precision timing capabilities. With this as a goal, a new detection concept called…

The particle-flow (PF) algorithm provides a global event description by reconstructing final-state particles and is central to event reconstruction in CMS. Recently, end-to-end machine learning (ML) approaches have been proposed to directly…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-29 Farouk Mokhtar

A deep learning method for the particle trajectory reconstruction with the DAMPE experiment is presented. The developed algorithms constitute the first fully machine-learned track reconstruction pipeline for space astroparticle missions.…

The detection of gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) in space-borne antennas like Taiji and LISA promises deep insights into strong-field gravity and black hole physics. However, the complex, highly degenerate, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Bo Liang , Chang Liu , Hanlin Song , Zhenwei Lyu , Minghui Du , Peng Xu , Ziren Luo , Sensen He , Haohao Gu , Tianyu Zhao , Manjia Liang Yuxiang Xu , Li-e Qiang , Mingming Sun , Wei-Liang Qian

We provide details on the implementation of a machine-learning based particle flow algorithm for CMS. The standard particle flow algorithm reconstructs stable particles based on calorimeter clusters and tracks to provide a global event…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-02-20 Joosep Pata , Javier Duarte , Farouk Mokhtar , Eric Wulff , Jieun Yoo , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Girone

Modern detectors of cosmic gamma-rays are a special type of imaging telescopes (air Cherenkov telescopes) supplied with cameras with a relatively large number of photomultiplier-based pixels. For example, the camera of the TAIGA-IACT…

The lepton identification is essential for the physics programs at high-energy frontier, especially for the precise measurement of the Higgs boson. For this purpose, a Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis (TMVA) based lepton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-11 Dan Yu , Manqi Ruan , Vincent Boudry , Henri Videau

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor technology application in high-energy physics. The upgraded version of the tracking system, called…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-05 Svetlana Kushpil

A precision measurement by AMS-02 of the positron fraction in primary cosmic rays is presented on this proceeding. Over the last two decades, there has been a strong interest in the cosmic ray positron fraction which exhibit an excess of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-02 Sami Caroff

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the LHC experiment dedicated to the investigation of the nature and the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) using heavy-ion collisions. Among its characteristics, excellent particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-09-04 Elena Botta

ALICE is the CERN LHC experiment optimised for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterisation of the quark-gluon plasma. To achieve the physics program for LHC Run 3, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Domenico Colella

Gas detector are very light instrument used in high energy physics to measure the particle properties: position and momentum. Through high electric field is possible to use the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology to detect the charged…