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This study presents the development and characterization of a novel white reflective filament suitable for additive manufacturing of finely segmented plastic scintillators using 3D printing. The filament is based on polycarbonate (PC) and…

This study investigates the characteristics of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) with different pixel densities, focusing on their response across a wide dynamic range. Using an experimental setup that combines laser source and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-26 Zhiyu Zhao , Baohua Qi , Shu Li , Yong Liu

An organic glass scintillator developed by Sandia National Laboratories was characterized in terms of its light output and pulse shape discrimination (PSD) properties and compared to commercial liquid (EJ-309) and plastic (EJ-276) organic…

A position sensitive Cherenkov detector was built, consisting of 64 SiPMs with an active area of 3x3 mm^2 and a pixel size of 100x100 \mu m^2. The sensitive area is increased by a light concentrator which consists of 64 pyramid-shaped…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 Mariana Rihl , Stefan Enrico Brunner , Lukas Gruber , Johann Marton , Ken Suzuki

The new generation of multi-PetaWatt laser facilities will allow tests of Strong Field QED, as well as provide an opportunity for novel photon and lepton sources. The first experiments are planned to study the (nearly) head-on scattering of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Óscar Amaro , Marija Vranic

High-granularity homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeters based on scintillating crystals and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a promising option for future $e^{+}e^{-}$ Higgs factories, where both excellent energy resolution and a very…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-10 Zhiyu Zhao , Dejing Du , Shu Li , Yong Liu , Baohua Qi , Jack Rolph , Haijun Yang

Tomographic imaging techniques using the Coulomb scattering of cosmic-ray muons are increasingly being exploited for the non-destructive assay of shielded containers in a wide range of applications. One such application is the…

Prototype of gamma ray detector based on Micro Pixel Avalanche Photodiodes (MAPD) with high pixel density 15000 pixel/$mm^2$, optically coupled to Lutetium Fine Silicate (LFS) scintillator has been developed. The detection performance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-02-11 E. Guliyev , F. Ahmadov , G. Ahmadov , A. Sadigov , Z. Sadigov , N. Anfimov , Z. Krumshtein , A. Olshevski , V. Shvetsov , V. Zhezher , R. Madatov

The FlatDot detector has been used to demonstrate the separation of Cherenkov and scintillation light for 1 to 2MeV electrons in linear alkylbenzene (LAB). With an average PMT transit time spread (TTS) of 200ps, the early light in each…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 Julieta Gruszko , Brian Naranjo , Byron Daniel , Andrey Elagin , Diana Gooding , Chris Grant , Jonathan Ouellet , Lindley Winslow

The main advantage of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector arrays (MKID) is their multiplexing capability, which allows for building cameras with a large number of pixels and good sensitivity, particularly suitable to perform large blank…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 L. Bisigello , S. J. C. Yates , L. Ferrari , J. J. A. Baselmans , A. M. Baryshev

Opaque scintillators are designed to have a short scattering length such that scintillation photons are probabilistically confined to a small region of space about their origin. The benefit of this feature is that information on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-10 Andrew Wilhelm , Garrett Wendel , Brandon Collins , Doug Cowen , Igor Jovanovic

We develop a high speed on-chip flux measurement using a capacitively shunted SQUID as an embedded cryogenic transducer and apply this technique to the qualification of a near-term scalable printed circuit board (PCB) package for frequency…

The SoLid collaboration is currently operating a 1.6 tons neutrino detector near the Belgian BR2 reactor, with main goal the observation of the oscillation of electron antineutrinos to previously undetected flavor states. The highly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-15 Luis Manzanillas

The proton light yield of organic scintillators has been measured extensively in recent years using fast waveform digitizers and large discrepancies exist in the values reported by different authors. In this letter, we address principles of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-17 T. A. Laplace , B. L. Goldblum , J. A. Brown , J. J. Manfredi

Next-generation large-scale neutrino detectors, from Eos, at the 1 tonne scale, to Theia, at the 10s-of-ktonne scale, will utilize differences in both the scintillation and Cherenkov light emission for different particle species to perform…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-04 E. J. Callaghan , T. Kaptanoglu , M. Smiley , M. Yeh , G. D. Orebi Gann

The SoLid experiment has been designed to search for an oscillation pattern induced by a light sterile neutrino state, utilising the BR2 reactor of SCK$\bullet$CEN, in Belgium. The detector leverages a new hybrid technology, utilising two…

The experiment of Ar+Au reactions at 30 MeV/u have been performed using the Compact Spectrometer for Heavy IoN Experiments (CSHINE) in phase I. The light-charged particles are measured by the silicon stripe telescopes in coincidence with…

In order to assess the performance of liquid xenon detectors for use in positron emission tomography we studied the scintillation light and ionization charge produced by 511 keV photons in a small prototype detector. Scintillation light was…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-24 P. Amaudruz , D. Bryman , L. Kurchaninov , P. Lu , C. Marshal , J. P. Martin , A. Muennich , F. Retiere , A. Sher

The combination of plastic scintillators with Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) is widely used for detecting radiation in high-energy astrophysics, particle physics, neutrino physics, or medical physics. An example of application for this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Nicolas De Angelis , Franck Cadoux , Coralie Husi , Merlin Kole , Sławomir Mianowski