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To assess the viability of a shallow-depth neutrino detector, a Cosmic Muon Veto Detector (CMVD) is being constructed on top of the stack of Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) detectors at TIFR, Mumbai. The CMVD employs extruded plastic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-05 Prajjalak Chattopadhyay , Mandar N. Saraf , Gobinda Majumder , Satyanarayana Bheesette , Ravindra R. Shinde

MiniCACTUS-v2 is a monolithic sensor prototype designed in LF 150 nm CMOS process for time tagging of individual Minimum Ionizing Particles with an accuracy better than 100 ps. The sensing element is a deep n-well/p-substrate diode without…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-24 Y. Degerli , R. Aleksan , R. Casanova , Y. Gan , S. Grinstein , F. Guilloux , A. Hanlon , T. Hemperek , J. P. Meyer , J. Pinol , P. Schwemling , E. Vilella

A 3D ISAR security imaging experiment at 24GHz is demonstrated with a sparse MIMO array. The MIMO array is an 8Tx/16Rx linear array to achieve real-aperture imaging along the vertical dimension. It is time-switching multiplexed with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Zhanyu Zhu , Feng Xu

Silicon strip sensors have long been a reliable technology for particle detection. Here, we push the limits of silicon tracking detectors by targeting an unprecedentedly low material budget of 2%-7% $X_0$ in an 8-layer 4 m$^2$ detector…

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new suite of cosmic microwave background telescopes in the Chilean Atacama Desert with an extensive science program spanning cosmology, Galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, and particle physics. SO will…

This paper explores the prospect of CMOS devices to assay lead in drinking water, using calorimetry. Lead occurs together with traces of radioisotopes, e.g. Lead-210, producing $\gamma$-emissions with energies ranging from 10 keV to several…

CMOS pixel sensors (CPS) represent a novel technological approach to building charged particle detectors. CMOS processes allow to integrate a sensing volume and readout electronics in a single silicon die allowing to build sensors with a…

We tested a new model of CMOS detector manufactured by the Gpixel Inc, for potential space astronomical application. In laboratory, we obtain some bias images under the typical application environment. In these bias images, clear random row…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Li Shao , Hu Zhan , Chao Liu , Haonan Chi , Qiuyan Luo , Huaipu Mu , Wenzhong Shi

Samples of the monolithic silicon pixel ASIC prototype produced in 2022 within the framework of the Horizon 2020 MONOLITH ERC Advanced project were irradiated with 70 MeV protons up to a fluence of 1 x 1016 neq/cm2, and then tested using a…

Scientific CMOS cameras are becoming increasingly prevalent in modern observational astronomy. We assess the ability of CMOS image sensors technology to perform high-precision photometry with a detailed laboratory characterization of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Ioannis Apergis , Daniel Bayliss , Leonidas Asimakoulas , Paul Chote , James McCormac , Morgan A. Mitchell , Sam Gill , Philip G. Steen , Peter Wheatley

The paper proposes a light-weighted stereo frustums matching module for 3D objection detection. The proposed framework takes advantage of a high-performance 2D detector and a point cloud segmentation network to regress 3D bounding boxes for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-22 Xi Mo , Usman Sajid , Guanghui Wang

We have built a CsI(Tl) gamma-ray detector array for the NPDGamma experiment to search for a small parity-violating directional asymmetry in the angular distribution of 2.2 MeV gamma-rays from the capture of polarized cold neutrons by…

CMOS imagers are becoming increasingly popular in astronomy. A very low noise level is required to observe extremely faint targets and to get high-precision flux measurements. Although CMOS technology offers many advantages over CCDs, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-15 Swaraj Mahato , Guy Meynants , Gert Raskin , J. De Ridder , H. Van Winckel

Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a telescope observing the Earth from the International Space Station since 2019. The instrument employs a Fresnel-lens optical system and a…

Transient detection and flux measurement via image subtraction stand at the base of time domain astronomy. Due to the varying seeing conditions, the image subtraction process is non-trivial, and existing solutions suffer from a variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek , Avishay Gal-Yam

Recent advances in CMOS imaging sensor technology , e.g. in CMOS pixel sensors, have proven that the CMOS process is radiation tolerant enough to cope with certain radiation levels required for tracking layers in hadron collider…

The Simons Observatory is a ground-based cosmic microwave background survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope, sited at an elevation of 5200 m in the Atacama Desert in…

We are developing large TES arrays in combination with FDM readout for the next generation of X-ray space observatories. For operation under AC-bias, the TESs have to be carefully designed and optimized. In particular, the use of high…

Background: Current mathematical quantification methods for beam symmetry are highly sensitive to noise, especially in beam profiles with significant variation. Purpose: This study evaluates the accuracy of standard radiotherapy beam…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Dalton H Bermudez , Wesley Culberson

To understand the scientific imaging capability, one must characterize the intra-pixel sensitivity variation (IPSV) of the CMOS image sensor. Extracting an IPSV map contributes to an improved detector calibration that allows to eliminate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-11 Swaraj Mahato , J. De Ridder , Guy Meynants , Gert Raskin , H. Van Winckel