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Measures taken to extend the acceptance of the H1 detector at HERA for photoproduction events are described. These will enable the measurement of electrons scattered in events in the high y range 0.85 < y < 0.95 in the 1998 and 1999 HERA…

Measurement of the three dimensional trajectory and specific ionization of recoil protons using a hydrogen gas time projection chamber provides directional information about incident fast neutrons. Here we demonstrate directional fast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-03-07 N. S. Bowden , M. Heffner , G. Carosi , D. Carter , P. O'Malley , J. Mintz , M. Foxe , I. Jovanovic

A prototype plastic scintillating fibre based beam profile monitor was tested at the Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre / \textit{Heidelberg Ionenstrahl Therapiezentrum} (HIT) in 2016 to determine its beam property reconstruction performance and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 B. D. Leverington , M. Dziewiecki , L. Renner , R. Runze

The MINERvA collaboration operated a scaled-down replica of the solid scintillator tracking and sampling calorimeter regions of the MINERvA detector in a hadron test beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. This article reports measurements…

We discuss the design and performance of a threshold Cerenkov counter for identification of charged hadrons. The radiator is pressurized gas, which is contained in thin-walled cylindrical modules. A mirror system of novel design transports…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Sivertz , Bruce Berger , Richard Ehrlich , John Bartlet , Steven Csorna , Vivek Jain , Szabolcs Marka , Kay Kinoshita , Paula Pomianowski

We describe a start-timing detector for the PHENIX experiment at the relativistic heavy-ion collider RHIC. The role of the detector is to detect a nuclear collision, provide precise time information with an accuracy of 50ps, and determine…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Ikematsu , Y. Iwata , K. Kaimi , M. Kaneta , T. Kohama , N. Maeda , K. Matsukado , H. Ohnishi , K. Ono , A. Sakaguchi , T. Sugitate , Y. Sumi , Y. Takata , M. Tanabe , A. Yokoro

The DIRAC spectrometer has been commissioned at CERN with the aim of detecting $\pi^+ \pi^-$ atoms produced by a 24 GeV/$c$ high intensity proton beam in thin foil targets. A challenging apparatus is required to cope with the high…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 DIRAC Collaboration

The Centre for the Clinical Application of Particles' Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications (LhARA) facility is being studied and requires simulation of novel accelerator components (such as the Gabor lens capture…

The MeV region of antineutrino energy is of special interest for physics research and for monitoring nuclear nonproliferation. Whereas liquid scintillation detectors are typically used to detect the Inverse Beta Decay (IBD), it has recently…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 Thomas Radermacher , Johannes Bosse , Sarah Friedrich , Malte Göttsche , Stefan Roth , Georg Schwefer

Mainly due to their outstanding performance the position sensitive silicon detectors are widely used in the tracking systems of High Energy Physics experiments such as the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb at LHC, the world's largest particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-16 Timo Peltola

Transition Radiation Detectors (TRDs) are useful for electron identification and hadron suppression in high energy nuclear and particle physics experiments. Conventional wire-chamber TRDs face operational limitations due to space charge…

The PANDA experiment at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) near GSI, Darmstadt, Germany will address fundamental questions of hadron physics. Excellent Particle Identification (PID) over…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-29 J. Schwiening

Located at the BEPCII $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider, the BESIII experiment provides a robust platform for investigating (anti)hyperon-nucleon ($YN$) and antineutron-nucleon ($\bar{n}N$) interactions. This is made possible by the high production…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-01 Zhao-Ling Zhang , Xu Gao , Wei-Min Song , Chang-Zheng Yuan

The Event Plane Detector (EPD) is an upgrade detector to the STAR experiment at RHIC, designed to measure the pattern of forward-going charged particles emitted in a high-energy collision between heavy nuclei. It consists of two…

This project is focused on the development of a novel strategy for the precise measurement of beta decay energy spectra. The exact determination of beta spectra has wide implications in the particle and nuclear physics fields: from sterile…

A fiber detector concept is suggested allowing to registrate particles within less than 100 nsec with a space point precision of about 0.1 mm at low occuppancy. The fibers should be radiation hard for 1 Mrad/year. Corresponding prototypes…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-31 E. C. Aschenauer , J. Baehr , V. Gapienko , B. Hoffmann , H. Luedecke , A. Menchikov , C. Mertens , R. Nahnhauer , R. Shanidze

This article describes a new experimental method for accelerator based neutrino experiments called neutrino tagging. The method consists in exploiting the neutrino production mechanism, the $\pi^{\pm}\to\mu^{\pm}\nu_\mu$ decay, to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-06-02 Mathieu Perrin-Terrin