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The PSI Positron Production (P$^3$ or P-cubed) experiment is a demonstrator for a e+ source and capture system with potential to improve the state-of-the-art e+ yield by an order of magnitude. The experiment is driven by the FCC-ee injector…

Previous pair-production-driven positron source designs have assumed that the transverse dimension of the target is significantly greater than the secondary beam it generates. This paper explores the use of targets with different transverse…

Charged-hadron identification (PID) is a critical requirement for the physics program of the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC). The baseline detector relies on ionization measurements from a time projection chamber (TPC), which…

This paper outlines the design and development of a fast front-end electronic readout board for the muon trigger detector in the muEDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The trigger detector, which consists of a gate and aperture…

There has been an increased focus on the integration of practices into physics curricula, with a particular emphasis on integrating computation into the undergraduate curriculum of scientists and engineers. In this paper, we present a…

The key idea behind PID Passivity-based Control (PID-PBC) is to leverage the passivity property of PIDs (for all positive gains) and wrap the PID controller around a passive output to ensure global stability in closed-loop. However, the…

Positron targets are a critical component of future Linear Colliders. Traditional targets are composed of high-Z metals that become brittle over time due to constant bombardment by high-power electron beams. We explore the possibility of a…

Technological tests of Total Ionizing Dose effects are required not only for silicon particle sensors developed in high energy physics experiments, but also for electronic devices and semiconductor elements used in commercial, automotive…

As an unstable light pure leptonic system, positronium is a very specific probe atom to test bound state QED. In contrast to ordinary QED for free leptons, the bound state QED theory is not so well understood and bound state approaches…

In this paper a novel approach is presented for control design with guaranteed transient performance for multiple-input multiple-output discrete-time linear polytopic difference inclusions. We establish a theorem that gives necessary and…

For quantum systems or materials, a common procedure for probing their behaviour is to tune electronic/magnetic properties using external parameters, e.g. temperature, magnetic field or pressure. Pressure application as an external stimuli…

The dissipative capacity as quantified by the nonlinear bandwidth measure of impulsively loaded primary structures (PSs) coupled to particle impact dampers (PIDs) is assessed. The considered PIDs are designed by initially placing different…

We propose a systematic framework to conduct design-technology pathfinding for PPAC in advanced nodes. Our goal is to provide configurable, scalable generation of process design kit (PDK) and standard-cell library, spanning key scaling…

Strain engineering of perovskite quantum dots (pQDs) enables widely-tunable photonic device applications. However, manipulation at the single-emitter level has never been attempted. Here, we present a tip-induced control approach combined…

The boron-10 based Multi-Grid detector is being developed as an alternative to helium-3 based neutron detectors. At the European Spallation Source, the detector will be used for time-of-flight neutron spectroscopy at cold to thermal neutron…

Modifications to test-time sampling have emerged as an important extension to diffusion algorithms, with the goal of biasing the generative process to achieve a given objective without having to retrain the entire diffusion model. However,…

The Muon Scattering Experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut uses a mixed beam of electrons, muons, and pions, necessitating precise timing to identify the beam particles and reactions they cause. We describe the design and performance of…

This article develops and proposes a geometric nonlinear proportional-integral-derivative (PID) type tracking control scheme on the Lie group of rigid body rotations, SO(3). Like PD-type attitude tracking control schemes that have been…

Several types of detectors are used to detect charged particles in particle and nuclear physics experiments. Since the semiconductor detector has superior spatial and kinematic resolutions as well as good response time than other types of…

The positron source is an essential component of the International Linear Collider (ILC) and is an area that poses some design challenges. One consideration is the material for the target, where the 1014 positrons per second for the ILC are…