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The WA105-3x1x1 m3 dual phase LAr-TPC demonstrator

The dual phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) is the state-of-art technology for neutrino detection thanks to its superb 3D tracking and calorimetry performance. Its main feature is the charge amplification in gas argon…

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Cosmic Ray Tests of the Prototype TPC for the ILC Experiment

A time projection chamber (TPC) is a strong candidate for the central tracker of the international linear collider (ILC) experiment and we have been conducting a series of cosmic ray experiments under a magnetic field up to 4 T, using a…

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Test Beam Campaigns for the CMS Phase I Upgrade Pixel Readout Chip

The current CMS silicon pixel detector as the innermost component of the CMS experiment is performing well at LHC design luminosity, but would be subject to severe inefficiencies at LHC peak luminosities of 2x10e34 cm^-2 s^-1. Therefore, an…

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Building a large-area GEM-based readout chamber for the upgrade of the ALICE TPC

A large Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main device for tracking and charged-particle identification in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. After the second long shutdown in 2019-2020, the LHC will deliver Pb beams colliding at an…

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Upgrade and commissioning of the ALICE muon spectrometer

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MicroTCA implementation of synchronous Ethernet-Based DAQ systems for large scale experiments

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Large-scale real-time signal processing in physics experiments: The ALICE TPC FPGA pipeline

For LHC Run 3, the ALICE Time Projection Chamber was upgraded to operate in continuous readout mode. Interaction rates of up to 50 kHz in Pb-Pb collisions require real-time processing of more than 3 TB/s of raw detector data. This…

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Significant noise improvement in a Kinetic Inductance Phonon-Mediated detector by use of a wideband parametric amplifier

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) have been demonstrated as capable phonon sensors when coupled to crystalline substrates, and have been proposed as detectors for next-generation rare-event searches such as for the direct…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-21 Karthik Ramanathan , Osmond Wen , Taylor Aralis , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Bruce Bumble , Yen-Yung Chang , Peter K. Day , Byeong Ho Eom , Henry G. LeDuc , Brandon J. Sandoval , Ryan Stephenson , Sunil R. Golwala