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The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber collaboration recently reported a dark matter limit obtained with a 10 liter time projection chamber filled with CF4 gas. The 10 liter detector was capable of 2D tracking (perpendicular to the drift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. B. R. Battat , S. Ahlen , M. Chernicoff , C. Deaconu , D. Dujmic , A. Dushkin , P. Fisher , S. Henderson , A. Inglis , A. Kaboth , L. Kirsch , J. P. Lopez , J. Monroe , H. Ouyang , G. Sciolla , H. Tomita , H. Wellenstein

We evaluate the performances of a 100 um-thick silicon strip detector (SSD) with a 300 MeV proton beam and a 90Sr beta-ray source. Signals from the SSD have been read out using a VLSI chip. Common-mode noise, signal separation efficiency…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Hotta , M. Fujiwara , T. Kinashi , Y. Kuno , M. Kuss , T. Matsumura , T. Nakano , S. Sekikawa , H. Tajima

X-ray Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been the workhorse for soft X-ray astronomical instruments for the past quarter century. They provide broad energy response, extremely low electronic read noise, and good energy resolution in soft…

A full-wafer, 10,580 $\times$ 10,560 pixel (95 $\times$ 95 mm) CCD was designed and tested at Semiconductor Technology Associates (STA) with 9 um square pixels and 16 outputs. The chip was successfully fabricated in 2006 at DALSA and some…

We discuss the performance of a readout system, Fixed Pulse Shape Efficient Readout (FIPSER), to digitize signals from detectors with a fixed pulse shape. In this study we are mainly interested in the readout of fast photon detectors like…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-16 Brent Limyansky , Robert Reese , John D. Cressler , Adam Nepomuk Otte , Ignacio Taboada , Cagri Ulusoy

We developed and built a new system of readout and trigger electronics, based on the waveform digitization and pipeline readout, for the KOTO experiment at J-PARC, Japan. KOTO aims at observing the rare kaon decay…

The CAEN V1751 is a new generation of Waveform Digitizer recently introduced by CAEN SpA. It features 8 Channels per board, 10 bit, 1 GS/s using Flash ADCs Waveform Digitizers (or 4 channels at 2 GS/s in Dual Edge Sampling mode) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-03 R. Acciarri , N. Canci , F. Cavanna , A. Cortopassi , M. D'Incecco , G. Mini , F. Pietropaolo , A. Romboli , E. Segreto , A. M. Szelc

We use a three-dimensional radiation transfer code to calculate the steady-state escape fraction of ionizing photons from disk galaxies as a function of redshift and galaxy mass. The gaseous disks are assumed to be isothermal (with a sound…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenneth Wood , Abraham Loeb

Precision phase readout of optical beat note signals is one of the core techniques required for intersatellite laser interferometry. Future space based gravitational wave detectors like eLISA require such a readout over a wide range of MHz…

The 21-cm PDF (i.e., distribution of pixel brightness temperatures) is expected to be highly non-Gaussian during reionization and to provide important information on the distribution of density and ionization. We measure the 21-cm PDF as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kazuhide Ichikawa , Rennan Barkana , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Paul Shapiro

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory is in the R&D phase, in which the Water Cherenkov Detector Array is an important part. The signals of Photo-Multiplier Tubes would vary from single photo electron to 4000 photo electrons, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-09 Lei Zhao , Weihao Wu , Jianfeng Liu , Yu Liang , Jiajun Qin , Li Yu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

We describe first results obtained with a track structure imaging system for measuring the ionisation topology of charged particles in a low-pressure gas. The detection method is based on a time projection chamber (TPC) filled with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Titt , V. Dangendorf , H. Schuhmacher

The trailing edge of tube drift-chamber signals for charged particles is expected to provide information concerning the particle passage time. This information may be useful for separating meaningful signals from overlapping garbage at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Abe , T. Emura , S. Odaka

A prototype of proton counter was developed by the University and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics of Torino to be used as online fluence beam monitor in particle therapy. The single particle identification approach aims at…

Identifying the start time of a sequence of symbols received at the receiver, commonly referred to as \emph{frame synchronization}, is a critical task for achieving good performance in digital communications systems employing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Oren Kolaman , Ron Dabora

Time-resolved beam parameters measurement system can be achieve electron beam energy in LIA. In this paper introduce work principle and method of time-resolved beam parameters measurement system. Show the experiment layout of energy…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Yuan Wang

An upgrade of the near detector of the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is currently being conducted. This upgrade will include two new Time Projection Chambers, each equipped with 16 charge readout resistive Micromegas…

The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) can identify particle species using the energy loss (dE/dx) measured by the readout pad rows. The dE/dx resolution for the ILD (International Large Detector) -TPC for the International Linear Collider…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-16 Aiko Shoji

In this paper we illustrate techniques for digitized waveform signal processing of fast timing detectors. In the example discussed here, timing analysis of SiPM signals in the presence of high Dark Count Rates, a large data set of digitized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-24 Sebastian White , Arjan Heering

CONCERTO is a millimeter-wave imaging instrument that operated on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope from April 2021 to May 2023. Its primary scientific objectives include the study of galaxy clusters through the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Mounir Abdkrimi , Olivier Rossetto , O. Bourrion , Christophe Vescovi , C. Hoarau