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Multiwire and microstrip porous detectors have been developed and investigated for DC operation. The multiwire porous detector consists of anode wires, an Al cathode and a gap between them filled with porous CsI. The microstrip porous…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Lorikyan

A high granularity preshower detector has been fabricated and installed in the WA98 Experiment at the CERN SPS for measuring the spatial distribution of photons produced in the forward region in lead ion induced interactions. Photons are…

Scintillators convert ionizing radiation into visible photons, enabling applications from cosmic ray detection to medical imaging. Two independent strategies for improving scintillator performance via nanoscale patterning have recently been…

We present the results of the measurements of the detection efficiency for a 4.7 \r{A} neutron beam incident upon a detector incorporating a stack of up to five MultiWire Proportional Counters (MWPC) with Boron-coated cathodes. The cathodes…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 I. Stefanescu , Y. Abdullahi , J. Birch , I. Defendi , R. Hall-Wilton , C. Hoglund , L. Hultman , M. Zee , K. Zeitelhack

The main parts of the LHC diffractive physics programme possible to be measured using a proton tagging technique are presented. The geometric acceptance of the ATLAS forward proton detectors: ALFA and AFP for various LHC optics settings are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-06-06 Maciej Trzebinski

The development prospects have been considered of a scintillator-photodiode type detector with improved energy resolution attaining several per cent ($R=1-2%$). The main contributions to the scintielectron detector energy resolution have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Naydenov , V. D. Ryzhikov

START, a high-efficiency and low-noise scintillation detector for ionizing particles, was developed for the purpose of creating a high-granular system for triggering cosmic muons. Scintillation light in START is detected by MRS APDs…

The development prospects of a scintillator-photodiode type detector with an improved energy resolution attaining few per cent, R from 1 to 2%, are considered. The main resolution components have been analyzed theoretically, their…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Naydenov , V. D. Ryzhikov

Scintillating fibre detectors combine sub-mm resolution particle tracking, precise measurements of the particle stopping power and sub-ns time resolution. Typically, fibres are read out with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Hence, if fibres…

The CMS/TOTEM and ATLAS collaborations carry out a program of forward physics with several near-beam detectors extending their coverage to high pseudorapidities. This instrumentation includes calorimeters (CASTOR and ZDC), tracking devices…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Xavier Rouby

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) -- a flagship ultraviolet/optical/infrared space telescope recommended by the National Academies' Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics -- will require detector technologies capable of…

A telescope of three silicon detectors has been installed close to the internal target position of the ANKE spectrometer, which is situated inside the ultra-high vacuum of the COSY-Juelich light-ion storage ring. The detection and…

Proton therapy is a cancer treatment technique currently in growth worldwide. It offers advantages with respect to conventional X-ray and $\gamma$-ray radiotherapy, in particular, a better control of the dose deposition allowing to reach a…

We present a characterization of a small (9-liter) and mobile 0.1% 6Li-doped pulse-shape-sensitive plastic scintillator antineutrino detector called SANDD (Segmented AntiNeutrino Directional Detector), constructed for the purpose of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-02 F. Sutanto , T. M. Classen , S. A. Dazeley , M. J. Duvall , I. Jovanovic , V. A. Li , A. N. Mabe , E. T. E. Reedy , T. Wu

In this paper, we present a few measurements done at the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. These measurements include the triple differential cross sections of the photon and associated jet production, the photon and heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-22 Dmitry Bandurin

Neutron detectors are an essential tool for the development of many research fields, as nuclear, particle and astroparticle physics as well as radiotherapy and radiation safety. Since neutrons cannot directly ionize, their detection is only…

We propose a novel approach for discovering a light dark photon in the forward experiments at the LHC, including the SND@LHC and the FASER experiments. Assuming the dark photon is lighter than twice the electron mass and feebly interacts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-16 Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee , Soo-hyeon Nam

The detector readout architecture introduced in this paper is intended for small to medium size physics experiments that have moderate bandwidth needs, and applications that require an ultimately low background radioactivity for the parts…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-21 Denis Calvet

A thermal neutron detector based on ZnS(Ag)/6LiF scintillator, wavelength-shifting fibers (WLS) and silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) is under development at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) for upgrading the POLDI instrument, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 J. -B. Mosset , A. Stoykov , V. Davydov , M. Hildebrandt , H. Van Swygenhoven , W. Wagner

In order to fully exploit the physics potential of the Tevatron Run 2, the D0 detector has been upgraded. Having nearly completed the commissioning phase, the D0 detector is starting to produce its first physics results. An overview of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurelio Juste