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The upgrades of ATLAS and CMS for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) highlighted physics objects timing as a tool to resolve primary interactions within a bunch crossing. Since the expected pile-up is around 200, with an r.m.s. time spread of…

We propose a new experiment Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider forward (RHICf) for the precise measurements of very forward particle production at RHIC. The proposal is to install the LHCf Arm2 detector in the North side of the ZDC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-18 Y. Itow , H. Menjo , T. Sako , N. Sakurai , K. Kasahara , T. Suzuki , S. Torii , O. Adriani , L. Bonechi , R. D'Alessandro , G. Mitsuka , A. Tricomi , Y. Goto , K. Tanida

In typical nuclear physics experiments with radioactive ion beams (RIBs) selected by the in-flight separation technique, Si detectors or ionization chambers are usually equipped for the charge determination of RIBs. The obtained charge…

Hyperspectral imaging provides high-dimensional spatial-temporal-spectral information revealing intrinsic matter characteristics. Here we report an on-chip computational hyperspectral imaging framework with high spatial and temporal…

A commercial, position-sensitive ion detector was used for the first time for the time-of-flight ion-cyclotron resonance detection technique in Penning trap mass spectrometry. In this work, the characteristics of the detector and its…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-10 G. Eitel , M. Block , A. Czasch , M. Dworschak , S. George , O. Jagutzki , J. Ketelaer , J. Ketter , Sz. Nagy , D. Rodriguez , C. Smorra , K. Blaum

There is a great desire to extend ultrasonic techniques to the imaging and characterization of nanoobjects. This can be achieved by picosecond ultrasonics, where by using ultrafast lasers it is possible to generate and detect acoustic waves…

Short lived hadronic resonances are a very important tool for the study of the dynamics of the matter produced in heavy-ion collisions since they should be sensitive to the medium properties such as temperature, density and expansion…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Massimo Venaruzzo

We propose a new experiment for decay pion spectroscopy of light hypernuclei at electron- and proton-beam facilities, using the recoil distance technique for separation of produced hypernuclei and a magnetic spectrometer for precise…

We present a novel method for measuring the half-life of highly charged radioisotopes by non-destructive nuclear recoil detection in a Penning ion trap. A specific emphasis is placed on $\rm ^7Be^{3+}$, which plays a crucial role in stellar…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-12 Scott Moroch , Carolyn Chun , Doug VanDerwerken , Ariana Shearin , Brian Beaudoin , Klaus Blaum , Timothy Koeth

Plasma impedance probes (PIPs) are a type of RF probe that primarily measure electron density. This work introduces two advancements: a streamlined analytical model for interpreting PIP-monopole measurements and techniques for achieving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 John W. Brooks , Erik M. Tejero , Matthew C. Paliwoda , Michael S. McDonald

A MHz frame rate X-ray area detector (LPD - Large Pixel Detector) is under development by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for the European XFEL. The detector will have 1 million pixels and allows analogue storage of 512 images taken at…

Measurements from particle timing detectors are often affected by the time walk effect caused by statistical fluctuations in the charge deposited by passing particles. The constant fraction discriminator (CFD) algorithm is frequently used…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-19 Mateusz Kocot , Krzysztof Misan , Valentina Avati , Edoardo Bossini , Leszek Grzanka , Nicola Minafra

The concept and subsequent experimental verification of the proportionality between pulse amplitude and detector transit time for microchannel plate detectors is presented. This discovery has led to considerable improvement in the overall…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Victor D. Irby

The basic principle of operation of silicon sensors with resistive read-out is built-in charge sharing. Resistive Silicon Detectors (RSD, also known as AC-LGAD), exploiting the signals seen on the electrodes surrounding the impact point,…

A double-layer silicon detector consisting of two 500micron-thick silicon PIN photodiodes with independent readouts was mounted in a vacuum chamber and tested with X-ray sources. The detector is sensitive from 1-30 keV with an effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hua Feng , Philip Kaaret , Hans Andersson

An active optical clock based on highly charged Nd$^{9+}$ ion is proposed for the first time. The clock can offer ultra-narrow linewidth at the $\upmu$Hz-level which is more than two-order of magnitude below the currently recorded laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 Yan-mei Yu , Duo Pan , Shaolong Chen , Hua Guan , Kelin Gao , Jingbiao Chen

Modern photon science performed at high repetition rate free-electron laser (FEL) facilities and beyond relies on 2D pixel detectors operating at increasing frequencies (towards 100 kHz at LCLS-II) and producing rapidly increasing amounts…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-19 Gabriel Blaj , Chu-En Chang , Christopher J. Kenney

A precise measurement of the hypertriton lifetime is presented. In this letter, the mesonic decay modes $\mathrm{{^3_\Lambda}H \rightarrow ^3He + \pi^-}$ and $\mathrm{{^3_\Lambda}H \rightarrow d + p + \pi^-}$ are used to reconstruct the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-05-30 The STAR Collaboration