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For dose calculations in ion beam therapy, it is vital to accurately determine the relative stopping power (RSP) distribution within the treated volume. Currently, RSP values are extrapolated from Hounsfield units (HU), measured with x-ray…

Measurement and analysis of high energetic particles for scientific, medical or industrial applications is a complex procedure, requiring the design of sophisticated detector and data processing systems. The development of adaptive and…

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Radially self-accelerating light exhibits an intensity pattern that describes a spiraling trajectory around the optical axis as the beam propagates. In this article, we show in simulation and experiment how such beams can be used to perform…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Shashi Prabhakar , Stephen Plachta , Marco Ornigotti , Robert Fickler

In-time particle trajectory reconstruction in the Large Hadron Collider is challenging due to the high collision rate and numerous particle hits. Using GNN (Graph Neural Network) on FPGA has enabled superior accuracy with flexible…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Shi-Yu Huang , Yun-Chen Yang , Yu-Ru Su , Bo-Cheng Lai , Javier Duarte , Scott Hauck , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Jin-Xuan Hu , Mark S. Neubauer

Low-Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) sensors, offering timing resolutions of the order of tens of picoseconds, are being widely adopted in particle physics experiments and related applications. As these applications scale to large numbers of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-27 Kyungmin Lee , Hoyong Jeong , Junho Kim , Seokhyeon Lee , Jaebak Kim , Jae Hyeok Yoo

A novel methodology, named the diffusion profile method, is proposed in this research to measure the electric field of a low gain avalanche detector (LGAD).The proposed methodology utilizes the maximum of the time derivative of the edge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-30 Chenxi Fu , Haobo Wang , Tao Yang , Zijun Xu , Congcong Wang , Jianing Lin , Weimin Song , Ryuta Kiuchi , Xiaoshen Kang , Xin Shi , Suyu Xiao

We characterized the front-end electronics used to process high-frequency signals from low-gain avalanche diodes (LGADs) at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. LGADs are silicon detectors employed for charged particle tracking, offering…

This paper presents a lidar-only state estimation and tracking framework, along with a roadside sensing unit for integration with existing urban infrastructure. Urban deployments demand scalable, real-time tracking solutions, yet…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Simon Schäfer , Bassam Alrifaee , Ehsan Hashemi

Low Gain Avalanche Diodes, also known as LGADs, are widely considered for fast-timing applications in high energy physics, nuclear physics, space science, medical imaging, and precision measurements of rare processes. Such devices are…

A neutron time projection chamber can locate the approximate direction of a neutron hot spot with high efficiency and a 4{\pi} field of view. The angular resolution can be significantly improved by adding several plastic scintillation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-11 Yidong Fu , Yang Tian , Yulan Li , Yigang Yang , Yiming Cai , Jian Yang , Jin Li

Particle tracking velocimetry in 3D is becoming an increasingly important imaging tool in the study of fluid dynamics, combustion as well as plasmas. We introduce a dynamic discrete tomography algorithm for reconstructing particle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-23 Andreas Alpers , Peter Gritzmann , Dmitry Moseev , Mirko Salewski

We present the results of an extensive evaluation of strip and pixel AC-LGAD sensors tested with a 120 GeV proton beam, focusing on the influence of design parameters on the sensor temporal and spatial resolutions. Results show that…

Recent interest in pile-up mitigation through fast timing at the HL-LHC has focused attention on technologies that now achieve minimum ionising particle (MIP) time resolution of 30 picoseconds or less. The constraints of technical maturity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-18 M. Centis Vignali , M. Gallinaro , B. Harrop , C. Lu , M. McClish , M. Moll , M. Newcomer , S. Otero Ugobono , S. White

The timing measurement of charged particles using silicon detector is widely used in synchrotron source as X-ray detectors, in time-of-flight mass spectrometer and especially in large collider experiment. To reduce the drastically event…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-01 Yuzhen Yang , Suyu Xiao , Yunyun Fan , Dejun Han , Zhijun Liang , Baohua Qi , Liaoshan Shi , Yuhang Tan , Xingan Zhang , Xin Shi

Based on elastic collisions, the linear momentum of a fast neutron can be measured from as few as two consecutive recoil ion tracks plus the vertex position of the third collision, or `two and half' ion tracks. If the time delay between the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-22 Zhehui Wang , Christopher L. Morris

Efficient and accurate particle tracking is crucial for measuring Standard Model parameters and searching for new physics. This task consists of two major computational steps: track finding, the identification of a subset of all hits that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-16 Ryan Miller , Alexander Shmakov , Kyuho Oh , Jiwon Lee , Pierre Baldi , Levi Condren , Makayla Vessella , Daniel Whiteson

LGAD technology is established within the field of particle physics, as the baseline technology for the timing detectors of both the ATLAS and CMS upgrades at the HL-LHC. Pixelated LGADs have been proposed for the High Granularity Timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-02 A. Doblas , D. Flores , S. Hidalgo , N. Moffat , G. Pellegrini , D. Quirion , J. Villegas , D. Maneuski , M. Ruat , P. Fajardo

Object detection algorithms for Lidar data have seen numerous publications in recent years, reporting good results on dataset benchmarks oriented towards automotive requirements. Nevertheless, many of these are not deployable to embedded…

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The trend towards autonomous driving and the continuous research in the automotive area, like Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), requires an accurate localization under all circumstances. An accurate estimation of the vehicle state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Eduardo Sánchez Morales , Michael Botsch , Bertold Huber , Andrés García Higuera

Distinguishing photon-arrival time and position is crucial for advancing quantum technology. However, capturing spatial and temporal information efficiently remains challenging. Here, we present a novel photon-detection technique to achieve…

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