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The status and capabilities of the KASCADE-Grande extensive air shower experiment are presented. The installation is located at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and comprises a large collecting area (0.5 km^2) electromagnetic array (Grande)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 K. -H. Kampert et al.

A new multiwire proportional chamber (MWPC) was designed and constructed for precision studies of neutron beta decay angular correlations. Its design has several novel features, including the use of low pressure neopentane as the MWPC gas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 T. M. Ito , R. Carr , B. W. Filippone , J. W. Martin , B. Plaster , G. Rybka , J. Yuan

GRANDProto300, the mid-scale prototype of the GRAND experiment, is a planned radio array of 300 antennas over $200\, \rm km^{2}$ that will be deployed in the radio-quiet location of Xiao Dushan (China) by $\sim 2026$. The array will act as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-05 Simon Chiche

Experimental conditions at the HERA-B experiment impose very strong requirements for gaseous detectors. The charged particle fluxes through the HERA-B tracking system, varying with the radial distance R from the beam line, are about $2…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Danilov , Yu. Gilitsky , T. Kvaratschellia , L. Laptin , I. Tichomirov , M. Titov , Yu. Zaitsev

A prototype of Multi-Wire Proportional Chambers (MWPC) has been fabricated for the study of its various characteristics. The detector contains gold-coated tungsten wires (20 $\mu m$ diameter) on the anode frame, with a pitch of 2.8 mm. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-06 Rajendra Nath Patra , R. N. Singaraju , S. Biswas , T. K. Nayak , Y. P. Viyogi

The MEG experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut searches for the charged-Lepton-Flavor-Violating mu+ -> e+ gamma decay. MEG has already set the world best upper limit on the branching ratio: BR<4.2x10^-13 @ 90% C.l. An upgrade (MEG II) of…

The THz band (0.1-10 THz) has attracted considerable attention for next-generation wireless communications, due to the large amount of available bandwidth that may be key to meet the rapidly increasing data rate requirements. Before…

The PANDA experiment is one of the four large experiments being built at FAIR in Darmstadt. It will use a cooled antiproton beam on a fixed target within the momentum range of 1.5 to 15 GeV/c to address questions of strong QCD, where the…

Strongly charged head-to-head (H2H) domain walls (DWs) that are purposely engineered along the [110] crystallographic orientation into ferroelectric BaTiO$_3$ single crystals have been proposed as novel 2-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs)…

Project GRAND measures the asymmetries of secondary cosmic muons by calculating the differences between the muons from the east and the muons from the west for complete solar days. A similar north-south difference is also presented. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. F. Lin , B. Fields , J. Gress , J. Poirier

GRANDProto300 (hereafter referred to as GP300) is a pioneering prototype array of the GRAND experiment. It consists of 300 radio antennas and will cover an area of 200 km$^2$ in a radio-quiet region of western China. Serving as a test bench…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Pengxiong Ma , Yi Zhang , Xing Xu , Bohao Duan , Shen Wang , Kewen Zhang , Pengfei Zhang , Xin Xu

Next-generation dual-phase time projection chambers (TPCs) for rare event searches will require large-scale, high-precision electrodes. To meet the stringent requirements for mechanical stability and high-voltage performance of such an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-04 Alexander Deisting , Jan Lommler , Shumit A. Mitra , Uwe Oberlack , Fabian Piermaier , Quirin Weitzel , Daniel Wenz

A prototype multiwire proportional chamber (MWPC) was developed to demonstrate the feasibility of constructing a radiopure time projection chamber with MWPC track readout to assay materials for alpha- and beta-emitting surface contaminants…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 Z. Ahmed , M. A. Bowles , R. Bunker , S. R. Golwala , D. R. Grant , M. Kos , R. H. Nelson , A. Rider , R. W. Schnee , D. Sotolongo , B. Wang , A. Zahn

Multi-channel wire gas electron multipliers (MWGEM) with gaps between the electrodes of 1 and 3mm were investigated. The chamber of the MWGEM was filled with pure commercial neon gas at pressure of 0.4 or 1.0 bar and irradiated by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-11 B. M. Ovchinnikov , V. V. Parusov , Yu. B. Ovchinnikov

This paper presents a large 6~m x 3~m aperture 7200 MEMS microphone array. The array is designed so that sub-arrays with optimized point spread functions can be used for beamforming and thus, enable the research of source directivity in…

In this contribution, we present the status and first data from the Radio Detector (RD) at the Pierre Auger Observatory, consisting of $1660$ radio antennas deployed across the $3000$ km$^2$ surface detector array. These antennas measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Bjarni Pont

We present a pioneering estimate of the global yearly greenhouse gas emissions of a large-scale Astrophysics experiment over several decades: the Giant Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND). The project aims at detecting ultra-high energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Clarisse Aujoux , Kumiko Kotera , Odile Blanchard

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) at CERN LHC is presently equipped with Multi Wire Proportional Chambers (MWPCs). A gating grid prevents ions produced during the gas amplification from moving into…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Alexander Deisting , Chilo Garabatos

KASCADE-Grande is a new extensive air shower experiment co-located to the KASCADE site at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The multi-detector system allows to investigate the energy spectrum, composition, and anisotropies of cosmic rays with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl-Heinz Kampert , KASCADE-Grande Collaboration

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is an air shower array currently under construction in Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m. HAWC will consist of 300 large water tanks covering an area of about 22000 square meters and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Zaborov