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Riptide is a detector concept aiming to track fast neutrons. It is based on neutron--proton elastic collisions inside a plastic scintillator, where the neutron momentum can be measured by imaging the scintillation light. More specifically,…

In this study, we comprehensively characterized and optimized a cryogenic pure CsI (pCsI) detector. We utilized a {$\SI{2}{cm}\times\SI{2}{cm}\times\SI{2}{cm}$} cube crystal coupled with a HAMAMATSU R11065 photomultiplier tube, achieving a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-25 Chenguang Su , Qian Liu , Linqquan Kong , Shi Chen , Kimiya Moharrami , Yangheng Zheng , Jin Li

The continued advancements of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have made them viable photosensors for low recoil energy Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) between fast neutron and gamma interactions when coupled to an appropriate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-01 B. Boxer , B. Godfrey , C. Grace , J. Johnson , R. Khandwala , M. Tripathi

Triangular cross-section SiC photonic devices have been studied as an efficient and scalable route for integration of color centers into quantum hardware. In this work, we explore efficient collection and detection of color center emission…

Cosmic-ray muons, owing to their high penetration power and abundance, have been widely employed as a natural probe in experimental particle physics. We developed a meter-scale cosmic-ray muon telescope, consisting of two parallel…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-07 Yan Niu , Anqing Wang , Xiangxiang Ren , Dong Liu , Meng Wang

Using thin scintillating fibers with Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) readout a mo dular high-resolution charged-particle tracking detector has been designed. The fiber modules consist of 2 x 5 layers of 128 round multiclad scintillating…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-11-30 H. Gast , R. Greim , T. Kirn , G. Roper Yearwood , S. Schael

We report on several versions of the calibration and monitoring system dedicated to scintillator tile calorimeters built within the CALICE collaboration and intended for future linear collider experiments. Whereas the first, a 1 m3 analogue…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-15 Jaroslav Zalesak

The quadrant silicon detector, a kind of passivated implanted planar silicon detector with quadrant structure on the junction side, gained its wide application in charged particle detection. In this paper, the manufacturing procedure,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 Pengfei Bao , Chengjian Lin , Feng Yang , Zhaoqiao Guo , Tianshu Guo , Lei Yang , Lijie Sun , Huiming Jia , Xinxing Xu , Nanru Ma , Huanqiao Zhang , Zuhua Liu

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,…

We report on the position, timing, and energy resolution of a range of plastic scintillator bars and reflector treatments using dual-ended silicon photomultiplier readout. These measurements are motivated by the upcoming construction of an…

This paper reports the results of an experiment to directly measure the time-resolved scintillation signal from the passage of cosmic-ray muons through liquid argon. Scintillation light from these muons is of value to studies of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-24 Denver Whittington , Stuart Mufson , Bruce Howard

We studied the light yield of a pure polystyrene slide coated with wavelength-shifter molecules, coupled to a photomultiplier, using beta particles from a 90-Sr source, as a possible easy-to-build, low-cost plastic scintillator detector.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-30 A. Brignoli , A. Conaboy , V. Dormenev , D. Jimeno , D. Kazlou , H. Lacker , C. Scharf , J. Schmidt , H. G. Zaunick

Multi-Pixel Photon Counters (MPPC) consist of hundreds of micro silicon Avalanche PhotoDiodes (APD) working in Geiger mode. The high gain and the low noise, typical of these devices, together with their good performance in magnetic field,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-08 A. Scordo , M. Bazzi , C. Berucci , C. Curceanu , A. D'Uffizi , K. Piscicchia , M. Poli Lener , A. Romero Vidal , E. Sbardella , O. Vazquez Doce

Scintillation detector is widely used for the particle detection in the field of particle physics. Particle detectors containing fluorine-19 ($^{19}\mathrm{F}$) are known to have advantages for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-03 Keita Mizukoshi , Takeshi Maeda , Yuuki Nakano , Satoshi Higashino , Kentaro Miuchi

A photon detector for BNL experiment E949 is described. The detector consists of lead/scintillator ``sandwich'' of 25 layers of 5 mm thick scintillator BC404 and 24 layers of 2 mm lead absorber. Readout is implemented with 30-60 cm long WLS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Mineev , E. Garber , J. Frank , A. Ivashkin , S. Kettell , M. Khabibullin , Yu. Kudenko , K. Li , L. Littenberg , V. Mayatski , N. Yershov

We present preliminary results on efficiency and light collection uniformity read out performances of different assemblies of scintillator tiles, coupled with solid state photon detectors of different make. Our test beam data suggest that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-01-14 A. Calcaterra , R. de Sangro , G. Finocchiaro , E. Kuznetsova , P. Patteri , M. Piccolo

We propose a high-precision, fast, robust and cost-effective muon detector concept for an FCC-ee experiment. This design combines precision drift tubes with fast plastic scintillator strips to enable both spatial and timing measurements.…

In this study, we propose a fast implementation of a Maximum Likelihood Positioning (MLP) algorithm to estimate the energy and identify the active scintillator pixel in staggered layer scintillation detectors for PET. The staggered layer…

In this paper we describe the performance of a light detector for Ar scintillation light made of wavelength-shifting (WLS) fibers connected to Silicon-Photomultipliers (SiPM). The setup was conceived to be used as anti-Compton veto for high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-15 J. Janicskó Csáthy , T. Bode , J. Kratz , S. Schönert , Ch. Wiesinger

We present a detailed study of an 8-channel $1\times1$ mm$^{2}$ WSi superconducting microwire single photon detector (SMSPD) array exposed to 120 GeV hadron beam and 120 GeV muon beam at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron H6 beamline.…