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A muon tracking system consisting of four 9cm x 10cm sized bulk Micromegas detectors with 128um amplification-gap and two 10cm x 10cm triple GEM detectors is foreseen for high-precision tracking of 140GeV muons at the H8 beamline at CERN…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan Bortfeldt , Otmar Biebel , David Heereman , Ralf Hertenberger

Cosmic ray muons enable non-invasive imaging of dense structures through multipleCoulomb scattering (MCS), with scattering angles dependent on atomic number (Z). Traditional algorithms like Point of Closest Approach (PoCA) assume single…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Reshma Ughade , Stylianos Chatzidakis

The muon tomography technique, based on multiple Coulomb scattering of cosmic ray muons, has been proposed as a tool to detect the presence of high density objects inside closed volumes. In this paper a new and innovative method is…

Speckle-based phase-contrast X-ray imaging (SB-PCXI) can reconstruct high-resolution images of weakly-attenuating materials that would otherwise be indistinguishable in conventional attenuation-based imaging. The experimental setup of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Samantha J. Alloo , Kaye S. Morgan , David M. Paganin , Konstantin M. Pavlov

Timing-pick up detectors with excellent timing resolutions are essential in many modern nuclear physics experiments. Aiming to develop a Time-Of-Flight system with precision down to about 10 ps, we have made a systematic study of the timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-19 J. W. Zhao , B. H. Sun , I. Tanihata , S. Terashima , L. H. Zhu , A. Enomoto , D. Nagae , T. Nishimura , S. Omika , A. Ozawa , Y. Takeuchi , T. Yamaguchi

In this work we attempt to establish the best time resolution attainable with a scintillation counter consisting of a plastic scintillator read out by a Geiger-mode Avalanche Photodiode. The measured time resolution is inversely…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Stoykov , R. Scheuermann , K. Sedlak

We present the results of transverse field (TF) muon-spin rotation (muSR) measurements on Cu2OSeO3, which has a skyrmion lattice (SL) phase. We measure the response of the TF muSR signal in that phase along with the surrounding ones, and…

We show that machine learning methods produce superior particle position reconstruction accuracy in scintillation-based detectors.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-25 Matthew Mark Romano , JungHyun Bae , Paul Cantonwine

Cosmic ray muon has strong penetrating power and no ionizing radiation hazards, which makes it an ideal probe for detecting special nuclear materials. In this paper, a high spatial resolution muon tomography system based on Micromegas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-16 Yu Wang , Zhiyong Zhang , Shubin Liu , Zhongtao Shen , Changqing Feng , Jianguo Liu , Yulin Liu

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…

Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) microscopy has excellent magnetic field sensitivity, but suffers from modest spatial resolution when compared with other scanning probes. This spatial resolution is determined by both the…

Zero- and longitudinal-field muon spin relaxation (MuSR) experiments have been carried out in the alloy series Pr(Os1-xRux)4Sb12 and Pr1-yLayOs4Sb12 to elucidate the anomalous dynamic muon spin relaxation observed in these materials. The…

We derive expressions for the time resolution of silicon detectors, using the Landau theory and a PAI model for describing the charge deposit of high energy particles. First we use the centroid time of the induced signal and derive analytic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-27 Werner Riegler , Gianluca Aglieri Rinella

AMoRE-II is the second phase of the Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare process Experiment aiming to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay of 100Mo isotopes using ~ 200 kg of molybdenum-containing cryogenic detectors. The AMoRE-II needs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-13 J. W. Seo , W. T. Kim , Y. D. Kim , H. Y. Lee , J. Lee , M. H. Lee , P. B. Nyanda , E. S. Yi

We report on the design and test results of a prototype processor for the CMS Level-1 trigger that performs 3-D track reconstruction and measurement from data recorded by the cathode strip chambers of the endcap muon system. The tracking…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Acosta , V. Golovtsov , M. Kan , A. Madorsky , B. Scurlock , H. Stoeck , L. Uvarov , S. M. Wang

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing an extensive Phase II upgrade program to prepare for the challenging conditions of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). A new timing layer is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-02 Irene Dutta

Mu3e is a novel experiment searching for charged lepton flavor violation in the rare decay $\mu^+ \rightarrow e^+e^-e^+$. Decay vertex position, decay time and particle momenta have to be precisely measured in order to reject both…

High-resolution fMRI provides a window into the brain's mesoscale organization. Yet, higher spatial resolution increases scan times, to compensate for the low signal and contrast-to-noise ratio. This work introduces a deep learning-based 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Hongwei Bran Li , Matthew S. Rosen , Shahin Nasr , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Plastic scintillators are widely used in particle detectors when precise timing information is required. As a basis for comparing different detectors we use such a characteristic as the time resolution per 1MeV detected energy, i.e. the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-08 Alexey Stoykov , Tigran Rostomyan

The hit response of silicon vertex and tracking detectors to muon collider beam background and results of a study of hit reducing techniques are presented. The background caused by decays of the 750 GeV/c m+ and m- beams was simulated using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-26 V. Di Benedetto , C. Gatto , A. Mazzacane , N. V. Mokhov , S. I. Striganov , N. K. Terentiev