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A series of test experiments on three different Si-based neutron detectors, namely a 1-d 128 channel, 0.5 mm space resolution Si microstrip sensor coupled to natural Gd converter, a medium size ? 1 cm2 PIN diode coupled to nGd2O3 or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-04 G. Mauri , M. Mariotti , F. Casinini , F. Sacchetti , C. Petrillo

Gaseous detectors are used in high energy physics as trackers or, more generally, as devices for the measurement of the particle position. For this reason, they must provide high spatial resolution and they have to be able to operate in…

We have constructed a liquid Argon TPC detector with fiducial mass of 150 kg as a part of the R&D program of the next generation neutrino and nucleon decay detector. This paper describes a study of particle identification performance of the…

Compared to Multi Wires Proportional Chambers (MWPC), Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) used in HEP to detect MIPs offer better spatial resolution, counting rate capability, and radiation hardness; their fabrication is also more…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-02 Bruno Guerard , Richard Hall-Wilton , Fabrizio Murtas

Detailed characterization of the newly available plastic scintillator (EJ-299-33A) having the pulse shape discrimination (PSD) property has been carried out in case of a large-sized detector (5 in.$\times$5 in.). The pulse height response…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-08 Pratap Roy , K. Banerjee , A. K. Saha , C. Bhattacharya , J. K. Meenaa , P. Bhaskar , S. Mukhopadhyay , S. Bhattacharya

Transverse momentum spectra of charged particles are measured by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in pPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV, in the range 0.4 < pt < 120 GeV and pseudorapidity abs(eta[CM]) < 1.8 in the proton-nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 CMS Collaboration

NEXT is a new experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay using a 100 kg radio-pure high-pressure gaseous xenon TPC. The detector requires excellent energy resolution, which can be achieved in a Xe TPC with electroluminescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 L. M. P. Fernandes , E. D. C. Freitas , M. Ball , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , C. M. B. Monteiro , N. Yahlali , D. Nygren , J. M. F. dos Santos

We have developed a dedicated front-end-electronics board for a high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber for a neutrinoless double-beta decay search. The ionization signal is readout by detecting electroluminescence photons with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-17 K. Z. Nakamura , S. Ban , A. K. Ichikawa , M. Ikeno , K. D. Nakamura , T. Nakaya , S. Obara , S. Tanaka , T. Uchida , M. Yoshida

For precise start time determination a Beam Fragmentation T$_0$ Counter (BFTC) is under development for the Time-of-Flight Wall of the Compressed Baryonic Matter Spectrometer (CBM) at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at…

A readout electronic with high time and energy resolution performance is designed for the SDD (Silicon Drift Detector) signals readout, which is aimed for X-ray pulsar based navigation (XNAV). For time measurement, the input signal is fed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-10 Er-Lei Chen , Chang-Qing Feng , Chun-Feng Ye , Shu-Bin Liu , Dong-Dong Jin , Jian Lian , Hui-Jun Hu

Jinping Neutrino Experiment plans to deploy a new type of 8-inch MCP-PMT with high photon detection efficiency for MeV-scale neutrino measurements. This work studies the performance of the MCP-PMTs, including the photon detection…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-17 Aiqiang Zhang , Benda Xu , Jun Weng , Huiyou Chen , Wenhui Shao , Tong Xu , Ling Ren , Sen Qian , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen

A new measurement of the $^{235}$U(n,f) cross section was performed at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN. The experiment focused on neutron energies from 20 MeV to several hundred MeV, and was normalized to neutron…

We describe the construction and calibration of a multi-channel liquid time projection chamber filled with Tetramethylsilane (TMS). Its charge readout system consists of 8 wires each in the $X$ and $Y$ directions. The chamber is also…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-03 Shuoxing Wu , Brian Lenardo , Manuel Weber , Giorgio Gratta

In recent years Gas Electron Multipliers have proven to be reliable amplification stages at high beam rates, and can be used also in Time Projection Chambers. Our group developed a 1 dm$^3$ active volume double-GEM TPC, with spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-07 Gábor Galgóczi , Gergő Hamar , Péter Pázmándi , Dezső Varga

For the first time, a small dual-phase (liquid/gas) xenon time projection chamber was equipped with a top array of silicon photomultipliers for light and charge readout. Here we describe the instrument in detail, as well as the data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-02 L. Baudis , Y. Biondi , M. Galloway , F. Girard , S. Hochrein , S. Reichard , P. Sanchez-Lucas , K. Thieme , J. Wulf

A calorimetric-time-of-flight (CTOF) technique was used for real-time, high-precision measurement of neutron spectrum at the angle of 175 degrees from the initial proton beam direction, which hits a face plane of a cylindrical iron target…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 I. L. Azhgirey , V. I. Belyakov-Bodin , I. I. Degtyarev , S. G. Mashnik , F. X. Gallmeier , W. Lu

We present the results of an extensive evaluation of strip and pixel AC-LGAD sensors tested with a 120 GeV proton beam, focusing on the influence of design parameters on the sensor temporal and spatial resolutions. Results show that…

A prototype of Multi-strip Multi-gap Resistive Plate chamber (MMRPC) with active area 40 cm $\times$ 20 cm has been developed at SINP, Kolkata. Detailed response of the developed detector was studied with the pulsed electron beam from ELBE…

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

The SAMURAI Pion Reconstruction and Ion-Tracker Time Projection Chamber (S$\pi$RIT TPC) was designed to enable measurements of heavy ion collisions with the SAMURAI spectrometer at the RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory and provide…