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The measurement of acetone in human breath, a known biomarker for diabetes, can act as an effective screening method for diabetes. While gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy based methods can detect gases in low concentration, they are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Sumant Sarkar , Alison Viegas , Srinivasa R. Raghavan

We present megas, a new software tool that improves the simulation of the Micromegas gas detectors. Our tool offers the possibility to configure multiple arrangements with one or more layers of MM detectors. A series of simple commands can…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-28 Dan A. Ciubotaru , Michele Renda

The laser alignment system of the ZEUS microvertex detector is described. The detector was installed in 2001 as part of an upgrade programme in preparation for the second phase of electron-proton physics at the HERA collider. The alignment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-08-07 K. Korcsak-Gorzo , G. Grzelak , K. Oliver , M. Dawson , R. Devenish , J. Ferrando , T. Matsushita , P. Shield , R. Walczak

The Particle-Identification Silicon-Telescope Array (PISTA) is a new detection system designed for high-resolution studies of the fission process induced by multi-nucleon transfer in inverse kinematics. It is specifically optimized for…

During the HERA luminosity shutdown period 2000/01 the tracking system of the ZEUS experiment has been upgraded with a silicon Micro Vertex Detector (MVD). The barrel part of the detector consists of three layers of single sided silicon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Chiochia

We present a detailed study of an 8-channel $1\times1$ mm$^{2}$ WSi superconducting microwire single photon detector (SMSPD) array exposed to 120 GeV hadron beam and 120 GeV muon beam at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron H6 beamline.…

Mini-EUSO is a space experiment selected to be installed inside the International Space Station. It has a compact telescope with a large field of view ($44 $\times$ 44$ sq. deg.) focusing light on an array of photo-multipliers tubes in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-02 Sara Turriziani , Jonah Ekelund , Katsuhiko Tsuno , Marco Casolino , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

The kinetic inductance detector (KID) is a versatile and scalable detector technology with a wide range of applications. These superconducting detectors offer significant advantages: simple and robust fabrication, intrinsic multiplexing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-31 Peter S. Barry , Clarence. C. Chang , Sunil Golwala , Erik Shirokoff

In microdosimetry, lineal energies y are calculated from energy depositions $\epsilon$ inside the microdosimeter divided by the mean chord length, whose value is based on geometrical assumptions on both the detector and the radiation field.…

We have fabricated and characterized 10,000 and 20,440 pixel Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) arrays for the Dark-speckle Near-IR Energy-resolved Superconducting Spectrophotometer (DARKNESS) and the MKID Exoplanet Camera (MEC).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 P. Szypryt , S. R. Meeker , G. Coiffard , N. Fruitwala , B. Bumble , G. Ulbricht , A. B. Walter , M. Daal , C. Bockstiegel , G. Collura , N. Zobrist , I. Lipartito , B. A. Mazin

The study of the minimum-bias charged-particle distributions is reviewed. The data are obtained using the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at the centre-of-mass energies from 0.9 to13 TeV. The particles are required to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-25 Yuri A. Kulchitsky

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

The in-beam tests of two Si pixel type TRACE detectors have been performed at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (Italy). The aim was to investigate the possibility of identifying heavy-ion reactions products with mass A~10 at low kinetic…

The particle spectrometer SONIC for particle-$\gamma$ coincidence measurements was commissioned at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Cologne, Germany. SONIC consists of up to 12 silicon $\mathit{\Delta}E$-$E$ telescopes with a total…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-23 S. G. Pickstone , M. Weinert , M. Färber , F. Heim , E. Hoemann , J. Mayer , M. Müscher , S. Prill , P. Scholz , M. Spieker , V. Vielmetter , J. Wilhelmy , A. Zilges

Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) featuring atomically thin thickness and unique electronic structure with favorable bandgap has been widely recognized as an attractive new material for the development of the next generation of…

This paper presents a first study of the performance of a novel 2D position-sensitive microstrip detector, where the resistive charge division method was implemented by replacing the metallic electrodes with resistive electrodes made of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Bassignana , M. Fernandez , R. Jaramillo , M. Lozano , F. J. Munoz , G. Pellegrini , D. Quirion , I. Vila

The microhexcavity plasma panel detector is a type of gaseous particle detector consisting of a close-packed array of millimeter-size hexagonal cells. The cells are biased to operate in Geiger mode where each cell functions as an…

We propose a novel probe technique capable of performing local low-temperature spectroscopy on a 2D electron system (2DES) in a semiconductor heterostructure. Motivated by predicted spatially-structured electron phases, the probe uses a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-06 Adam Sciambi , Matthew Pelliccione , Seth R. Bank , Arthur C. Gossard , David Goldhaber-Gordon

Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) with resistive anode planes provide intrinsic discharge robustness while maintaining good spatial and time resolutions. Typically read out with 1D strips or pad structures, here the characterisation…

The necessity to use Photo Multipliers (PM) as light detector limited in the past the use of crystals in radiation handled device preferring the Geiger approach. The Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are very small and cheap, solid photon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-08 Valerio Bocci , Giacomo Chiodi , Francesco Iacoangeli , Massimo Nuccetelli , Luigi Recchia