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The XLZD Design Book: Towards the Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

This report describes the experimental strategy and technologies for XLZD, the next-generation xenon observatory sensitive to dark matter and neutrino physics. In the baseline design, the detector will have an active liquid xenon target of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-29 XLZD Collaboration , J. Aalbers , K. Abe , M. Adrover , S. Ahmed Maouloud , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , L. Althueser , D. W. P. Amaral , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , B. Andrieu , N. Angelides , E. Angelino , B. Antunovic , E. Aprile , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , M. Babicz , A. Baker , M. Balzer , J. Bang , E. Barberio , J. W. Bargemann , E. Barillier , A. Basharina-Freshville , L. Baudis , D. Bauer , M. Bazyk , K. Beattie , N. Beaupere , N. F. Bell , L. Bellagamba , T. Benson , A. Bhatti , T. P. Biesiadzinski , R. Biondi , Y. Biondi , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , A. Bismark , C. Boehm , K. Boese , A. Bolotnikov , P. Brás , R. Braun , A. Breskin , C. A. J. Brew , S. Brommer , A. Brown , G. Bruni , R. Budnik , S. Burdin , C. Cai , C. Capelli , G. Carini , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chauvin , A. Chawla , H. Chen , J. J. Cherwinka , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , A. P. Cimental Chavez , K. Clark , A. P. Colijn , D. J. Colling , J. Conrad , M. V. Converse , L. J. Cooper , R. Coronel , D. Costanzo , A. Cottle , G. Cox , J. J. Cuenca-García , D. Curran , D. Cussans , V. D'Andrea , L. C. Daniel Garcia , I. Darlington , S. Dave , A. David , G. J. Davies , M. P. Decowski , A. Deisting , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , C. Di Donato , L. Di Felice , P. Di Gangi , S. Diglio , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , M. Doerenkamp , G. Drexlin , E. Druszkiewicz , C. L. Dunbar , K. Eitel , A. Elykov , R. Engel , S. R. Eriksen , S. Fayer , N. M. Fearon , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , N. Fieldhouse , H. Fischer , H. Flaecher , T. Flehmke , M. Flierman , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , K. Fujikawa , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , R. J. Gaitskell , N. Gallice , M. Galloway , F. Gao , N. Garroum , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , S. Ghosh , R. Giacomobono , R. Gibbons , F. Girard , R. Glade-Beucke , F. Glück , S. Gokhale , L. Grandi , J. Green , J. Grigat , M. G. D. van der Grinten , R. Größle , H. Guan , M. Guida , P. Gyorgy , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. Hall , R. Hammann , V. Hannen , S. Hansmann-Menzemer , N. Hargittai , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , A. Higuera , C. Hils , K. Hiraoka , L. Hoetzsch , M. Hoferichter , G. J. Homenides , N. F. Hood , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , S. Hughes , D. Hunt , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , E. Jacquet , J. Jakob , R. S. James , F. Joerg , S. Jones , A. C. Kaboth , F. Kahlert , A. C. Kamaha , Y. Kaminaga , M. Kara , P. Kavrigin , S. Kazama , M. Keller , P. Kemp-Russell , D. Khaitan , P. Kharbanda , B. Kilminster , J. Kim , R. Kirk , M. Kleifges , M. Klute , M. Kobayashi , D. Kodroff , D. Koke , A. Kopec , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , B. von Krosigk , V. A. Kudryavtsev , F. Kuger , N. Kurita , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , C. Lawes , J. Lee , B. Lehnert , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , L. Levinson , A. Li , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , Z. Liang , J. Lin , Y. -T. Lin , S. Lindemann , S. Linden , M. Lindner , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , K. Liu , J. Loizeau , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , M. Loutit , C. Lu , G. M. Lucchetti , T. Luce , S. Luitz , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , B. Maier , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , R. L. Mannino , F. Marignetti , T. Marley , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , E. Masson , S. Mastroianni , C. Maupin , V. Mazza , C. McCabe , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. B. McLaughlin , A. Melchiorre , J. Menéndez , M. Messina , E. H. Miller , B. Milosovic , S. Milutinovic , K. Miuchi , R. Miyata , E. Mizrachi , A. Molinario , C. M. B. Monteiro , M. E. Monzani , K. Morå , S. Moriyama , E. Morrison , E. Morteau , Y. Mosbacher , B. J. Mount , J. Müller , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , M. Murra , A. Naylor , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , J. L. Newstead , A. Nguyen , K. Ni , J. O'Dell , C. O'Hare , U. Oberlack , M. Obradovic , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , G. D. Orebi Gann , J. Orpwood , S. Ouahada , K. Oyulmaz , B. Paetsch , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , Y. Pan , M. Pandurovic , N. J. Pannifer , S. Paramesvaran , S. J. Patton , Q. Pellegrini , B. Penning , G. Pereira , R. Peres , E. Perry , T. Pershing , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , A. Piepke , M. Pierre , G. Plante , T. R. Pollmann , F. Pompa , L. Principe , J. Qi , K. Qiao , Y. Qie , J. Qin , S. Radeka , V. Radeka , M. Rajado , D. Ramírez García , A. Ravindran , A. Razeto , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , A. Richards , G. R. C. Rischbieter , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , A. Roy , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , R. Saakyan , L. Sanchez , P. Sanchez-Lucas , D. Santone , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , A. Scaffidi , R. W. Schnee , J. Schreiner , P. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , A. Schwenck , A. Schwenk , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , P. Shagin , S. Sharma , S. Shaw , W. Shen , L. Sherman , S. Shi , S. Y. Shi , T. Shimada , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , H. Simgen , G. Sinev , R. Singh , J. Siniscalco , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , Z. Song , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , O. Stanley , M. Steidl , T. Stenhouse , A. Stevens , K. Stifter , T. J. Sumner , A. Takeda , P. -L. Tan , D. J. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , D. Thers , T. Thümmler , D. R. Tiedt , F. Tönnies , Z. Tong , F. Toschi , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , G. Trinchero , M. Tripathi , D. R. Tronstad , R. Trotta , C. D. Tunnell , P. Urquijo , A. Usón , M. Utoyama , A. C. Vaitkus , O. Valentino , K. Valerius , S. Vecchi , V. Velan , S. Vetter , L. de Viveiros , G. Volta , D. Vorkapic , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , D. Waters , K. M. Weerman , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , T. J. Whitis , K. Wild , M. Williams , M. Wilson , S. T. Wilson , C. Wittweg , J. Wolf , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , M. Worcester , C. J. Wright , V. H. S. Wu , S. Wüstling , M. Wurm , Q. Xia , Y. Xing , D. Xu , J. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , L. Yang , J. Ye , M. Yeh , B. Yu , G. Zavattini , W. Zha , M. Zhong , K. Zuber

First demonstration of gamma-ray imaging using balloon-borne emulsion telescope

We promote the precise gamma-ray observation project Gamma-Ray Astro-Imager with Nuclear Emulsion (GRAINE), which uses balloon-borne emulsion gamma-ray telescopes. The emulsion telescope realizes observations with high angular resolution,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-24 Hiroki Rokujo , Shigeki Aoki , Kaname Hamada , Toshio Hara , Tatsuki Inoue , Katsumi Ishiguro , Atsushi Iyono , Hiroaki Kawahara , Koichi Kodama , Ryosuke Komatani , Masahiro Komatsu , Tetsuya Kosaka , Fukashi Mizutani , Motoaki Miyanishi , Kunihiro Morishima , Misaki Morishita , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Akira Nishio , Kimio Niwa , Naoto Otsuka , Keita Ozaki , Osamu Sato , Emi Shibayama , Satoru Takahashi , Atsumu Suzuki , Ryo Tanaka , Yurie Tateishi , Shuichi Tawa , Misato Yabu , Kyohei Yamada , Saya Yamamoto , Masahiro Yoshimoto

The XeBRA platform for liquid xenon time projection chamber development

XeBRA is a flexible cryogenic platform designed to perform research and development for liquid xenon detectors searching for rare events. Its extra-large outer cryostat makes it possible to install a wide variety of detector designs. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-10 Daniel Baur , Alexander Bismark , Adam Brown , Julia Dierle , Horst Fischer , Robin Glade-Beucke , Jaron Grigat , Basho Kaminsky , Fabian Kuger , Sebastian Lindemann , Darryl Masson , Patrick Meinhardt , Mariana Rajado Silva , Marc Schumann , Florian Tönnies , Francesco Toschi

Design and simulation of the High-Energy Proton Beam Telescope

A high-resolution beam telescope is essential for the precise characterization of silicon pixel sensors. As part of the CSNS-II upgrade project, a High-Energy Proton Beam Telescope (HEPTel) based on monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-17 Lan-Kun Li , Ze Gao , Ying-Hao Yu , Liang-Cheng-Long Jin , Ming-Yi Dong , Ren-Hong Liu , Hong-Yu Zhang , Chang Xu , Han-Tao Jing , Yu-Hang Guo , Qun Ou-Yang

XENON1T Dark Matter Data Analysis: Signal & Background Models, and Statistical Inference

The XENON1T experiment searches for dark matter particles through their scattering off xenon atoms in a 2 tonne liquid xenon target. The detector is a dual-phase time projection chamber, which measures simultaneously the scintillation and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-03 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Althueser , F. D. Amaro , V. C. Antochi , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , D. Cichon , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , P. de Perio , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , S. Diglio , A. Elykov , G. Eurin , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , L. Grandi , Z. Greene , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , R. Itay , F. Joerg , S. Kazama , A. Kish , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , E. López Fune , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Manfredini , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , D. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , K. Miller , A. Molinario , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , K. Odgers , B. Pelssers , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , V. Pizzella , G. Plante , R. Podviianiuk , H. Qiu , D. Ramírez García , S. Reichard , B. Riedel , A. Rizzo , A. Rocchetti , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , N. Šarčević , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , C. Therreau , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , N. Upole , M. Vargas , O. Wack , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , J. P. Zopounidis

Design and Performance of the Soft Gamma-ray Detector for the NeXT mission

The Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) on board the NeXT (Japanese future high energy astrophysics mission) is a Compton telescope with narrow field of view (FOV), which utilizes Compton kinematics to enhance its background rejection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 H. Tajima , T. Kamae , G. Madejski , T. Mitani , K. Nakazawa , T. Tanaka , T. Takahashi , S. Watanabe , Y. Fukazawa , T. Ikagawa , J. Kataoka , M. Kokubun , K. Makishima , Y. Terada , M. Nomachi , M. Tashiro

Subsystem Development for the All-Sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) prototype

The gamma-ray sky from several hundred keV to $\sim$ a hundred MeV has remained largely unexplored due to the challenging nature of detecting gamma rays in this regime. At lower energies, Compton scattering is the dominant interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sean Griffin , the AMEGO Team

Towards Real Time Compton Imaging in Demanding Conditions

Compton cameras are radiation detectors that provide spatial information on the origin of the {\gamma}-ray sources based on the Compton scattering effect. Many applications require these detectors to be used at high counting rate. As such,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-08 Bernardo Gameiro , Jorge Lerendegui-Marco , Victor Babiano-Suarez , Javier Balibrea-Correa , Gabriel de la Fuente Rosales , Ion Ladarescu , Pablo Torres-Sánchez , César Domingo Pardo

Measurement of the Scintillation Yield of Low-Energy Electrons in Liquid Xenon

We have measured the energy dependence of the liquid xenon (LXe) scintillation yield of electrons with energy between 2.1 and 120.2keV, using the Compton coincidence technique. A LXe scintillation detector with a very high light detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 E. Aprile , R. Budnik , B. Choi , H. A. Contreras , K. -L. Giboni , L. W. Goetzke , J. E. Koglin , R. F. Lang , K. E. Lim , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , R. Persiani , G. Plante , A. Rizzo

Applications of Gas Imaging Micro-Well Detectors to an Advanced Compton Telescope

We present a concept for an Advanced Compton Telescope (ACT) based on the use of pixelized gas micro-well detectors to form a three-dimensional electron track imager. A micro-well detector consists of an array of individual micro-patterned…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. F. Bloser , S. D. Hunter , J. M. Ryan , M. L. McConnell , R. S. Miller , T. N. Jackson , B. Bai , S. Jung

NEXT-CRAB-0: A High Pressure Gaseous Xenon Time Projection Chamber with a Direct VUV Camera Based Readout

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) remains one of the most compelling experimental avenues for the discovery in the neutrino sector. Electroluminescent gas-phase time projection chambers are well suited to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-04 NEXT Collaboration , N. K. Byrnes , I. Parmaksiz , C. Adams , J. Asaadi , J Baeza-Rubio , K. Bailey , E. Church , D. González-Díaz , A. Higley , B. J. P. Jones , K. Mistry , I. A. Moya , D. R. Nygren , P. Oyedele , L. Rogers , K. Stogsdill , H. Almazán , V. Álvarez , B. Aparicio , A. I. Aranburu , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , S. Ayet , C. D. R. Azevedo , F. Ballester , M. del Barrio-Torregrosa , A. Bayo , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , S. Bounasser , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , L. Cid , C. A. N. Conde , T. Contreras , F. P. Cossío , E. Dey , G. Díaz , T. Dickel , M. Elorza , J. Escada , R. Esteve , A. Fahs , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , F. W. Foss , E. D. C. Freitas , Z. Freixa , J. Generowicz , A. Goldschmidt , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , R. González , J. Grocott , R. Guenette , J. Haefner , K. Hafidi , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Herrero-Gómez , V. Herrero , C. Hervés Carrete , J. Ho , P. Ho , Y. Ifergan , L. Labarga , L. Larizgoitia , P. Lebrun , F Lopez , D. Lopez Gutierrez , N. López-March , R. Madigan , R. D. P. Mano , A. P. Marques , J. Martín-Albo , G. Martínez-Lema , M. Martínez-Vara , Z. E. Meziani , R. L. Miller , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz Vidal , K. E. Navarro , P. Novella , A. Nuñez , E. Oblak , M. Odriozola-Gimeno , J. Palacio , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , J Pelegrin , M. Pérez Maneiro , M. Querol , A. B. Redwine , J. Renner , I. Rivilla , J. Rodríguez , C. Rogero , B. Romeo , C. Romo-Luque , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , A. Simón , S. R. Soleti , M. Sorel , C. Stanford , J. M. R. Teixeira , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , A. Usón , J. F. C. A. Veloso , T. T. Vuong , J. Waiton , J. T. White

Constraints on Relativistic Jets from the Fast X-ray Transient 210423 using Prompt Radio Follow-Up Observations

Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are a new observational class of phenomena with no clear physical origin. This is at least partially a consequence of limited multi-wavelength follow up of this class of transients in real time. Here we present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-15 Dina Ibrahimzade , R. Margutti , J. S. Bright , P. Blanchard , K. Paterson , D. Lin , H. Sears , A. Polzin , I. Andreoni , G. Schroeder , K. D. Alexander , E. Berger , D. L. Coppejans , A. Hajela , J. Irwin , T. Laskar , B. D. Metzger , J. C. Rastinejad , L. Rhodes

Balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry with PoGOLite

PoGOLite is a hard X-ray polarimeter operating in the 25-100 keV energy band. The instrument design is optimised for the observation of compact astrophysical sources. Observations are conducted from a stabilised stratospheric balloon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Mark Pearce , Hans-Gustav Florén , Miranda Jackson , Tune Kamae , Mózsi Kiss , Merlin Kole , Elena Moretti , Göran Olofsson , Stefan Rydström , Jan-Erik Strömberg , Hiromitsu Takahashi

Development of a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber prototype for the RELICS experiment

The RELICS (REactor neutrino LIquid xenon Coherent elastic Scattering) experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from reactor antineutrinos using a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. To validate the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-13 Lingfeng Xie , Jiajun Liu , Yifei Zhao , Chang Cai , Guocai Chen , Jiangyu Chen , Huayu Dai , Rundong Fang , Hongrui Gao , Fei Gao , Jingfan Gu , Xiaoran Guo , Jiheng Guo , Chengjie Jia , Gaojun Jin , Fali Ju , Yanzhou Hao , Xu Han , Yang Lei , Kaihang Li , Meng Li , Minhua Li , Ruize Li , Shengchao Li , Siyin Li , Tao Li , Qing Lin , Sheng Lv , Guang Luo , Yuanyuan Ren , Chuanping Shen , Mingzhuo Song , Lijun Tong , Yuhuang Wan , Xiaoyu Wang , Wei Wang , Xiaoping Wang , Zihu Wang , Yuehuan Wei , Liming Weng , Xiang Xiao , Yikai Xu , Jijun Yang , Litao Yang , Long Yang , Jingqiang Ye , Jiachen Yu , Qian Yue , Yuyong Yue , Tianyuan Zha , Bingwei Zhang , Yuming Zhang , Chenhui Zhu

Studying the High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sky with Glast

Building on the success of the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) will make a major step in the study of such subjects as blazars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Kamae , T. Ohsugi , D. J. Thompson , K. Watanabe

PoGOLite - A High Sensitivity Balloon-Borne Soft Gamma-ray Polarimeter

We describe a new balloon-borne instrument (PoGOLite) capable of detecting 10% polarisation from 200mCrab point-like sources between 25 and 80keV in one 6 hour flight. Polarisation measurements in the soft gamma-ray band are expected to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Tuneyoshi Kamae , Viktor Andersson , Makoto Arimoto , Magnus Axelsson , Cecilia Marini Bettolo , Claes-Ingvar Björnsson , Gilles Bogaert , Per Carlson , William Craig , Tomas Ekeberg , Olle Engdegård , Yasushi Fukazawa , Shuichi Gunji , Linnea Hjalmarsdotter , Bianca Iwan , Yoshikazu Kanai , Jun Kataoka , Nobuyuki Kawai , Jaroslav Kazejev , Mózsi Kiss , Wlodzimierz Klamra , Stefan Larsson , Grzegorz Madejski , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Johnny Ng , Mark Pearce , Felix Ryde , Markus Suhonen , Hiroyasu Tajima , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Tadayuki Takahashi , Takuya Tanaka , Timothy Thurston , Masaru Ueno , Gary Varner , Kazuhide Yamamoto , Yuichiro Yamashita , Tomi Ylinen , Hiroaki Yoshida

CZT imaging detectors for ProtoEXIST

We describe the detector development for a balloon-borne wide-field hard X-ray (20 - 600 keV) telescope, ProtoEXIST. ProtoEXIST is a pathfinder for both technology and science of the proposed implementation of the Black Hole Finder Probe,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Hong , J. E. Grindlay , N. Chammas , A. Copete , R. G. Baker , S. D. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels , W. R. Cook , J. A. Burnham , F. A. Harrison , J. Collins , W. W. Craig

AMEGO: Exploring the Extreme Multimessenger Universe

The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) is a Probe-class mission concept that will provide essential contributions to multimessenger astrophysics in the next decade. AMEGO operates both as a Compton and pair telescope to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Carolyn A. Kierans , the AMEGO Team

AXEL: High-pressure Xe gas TPC for BG-free $0\nu2\beta$ decay search

AXEL is a high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0n2b) search. The AXEL has a unique readout system called ELCC which has a cellular structure and photosensors to detect electroluminescence light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-24 S. Obara , S. Ban , M. Hirose , A. K. Ichikawa , T. Kikawa , K. Z. Nakamura , T. Nakaya , S. Tanaka , M. Yoshida , Y. Iwashita , H. Sekiya , Y. Nakajima , K. Ueshima , K. Miuchi , K. D. Nakamura , A. Minamino , T. Nakadaira , K. Sakashita

Tiled Array of Pixelated CZT Imaging Detectors for ProtoEXIST2 and MIRAX-HXI

We have assembled a tiled array (220 cm2) of fine pixel (0.6 mm) imaging CZT detectors for a balloon borne wide-field hard X-ray telescope, ProtoEXIST2. ProtoEXIST2 is a prototype experiment for a next generation hard X-ray imager MIRAX-HXI…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Jaesub Hong , Branden Allen , Jonathan Grindlay , Barbara Rodrigues , Jon Robert Ellis , Robert Baker , Scott Barthelmy , Peter Mao , Hiromasa Miyasaka , Jeff Apple