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The NA48 experiment at CERN aims at making a precision study of direct CP violation in the neutral kaons, by measuring $Re(\epsilon'/\epsilon)$ with an accuracy better than 0.02%. To achieve this goal, the experiment requires a neutral…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose Ocariz

The heart of every switched mode converter consists of several switching semiconductor elements. Due to their non-ideal behaviour there are ON state and switching losses heating up the silicon chip. That heat must effectively be transferred…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 R. Künzi

Spatial resolution of less than 200 um is challenging for thermal neutron detection. A novel readout scheme based on the time-projection-chamber (TPC) concept is used in a gaseous electron multiplier (GEM) detector. Thermal neutrons are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-22 Bernhard Flierl , Otmar Biebel , Ralf Hertenberger , Karl Zeitelhack

Future high-energy physics experiments require a paradigm shift in radiation detector design. In response to this challenge, resistive LGADs that combine Low Gain Avalanche Diode technology with resistive readout have been developed. The…

This paper proposes a high-speed transceiver-based method for implementing a digital-to-time converter (DTC). A real-time decoding technique is introduced to inject time information into high-speed pattern data. The stability of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Dexuan Kong , Zaiming Fu , Yujie Deng , Ruiqi Wang

NEXT is a high-pressure (10-15 bar) xenon Time Projection Chamber dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches. NEXT-DEMO is a large prototype of the NEXT experiment, constructed to demonstrate the feasibility of the NEXT detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Paola Ferrario

In recent years cooling technology for Liquid Xenon (LXe) detectors has advanced driven by the development of Dark Matter (DM) detectors with target mass in the 100 - 1,000 kg range. The next generation of DM detectors based on LXe will be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-24 K. L. Giboni , P. Juyal , E. Aprile , Y. Zhang , J. Naganoma

A new technique for medical imaging, "3{\gamma} imaging", is studied by our group at SUBATECH for few years. A small liquid xenon time projection chamber prototype has been built in order to demonstrate the feasibility of this technique.…

The design, calibration, and performance of the first radial drift Time Projection Chamber (TPC) are presented. The TPC was built and installed at the CERES/NA45 experiment at the CERN SPS in the late nineties, with the objective to improve…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The CERES Collaboration

This paper presents a novel encoding method for fine time data of a tapped delay line (TDL) time-to-digital Converter (TDC). It is based on divide-and-conquer strategy, and has the advantage of significantly reducing logic resource…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Wenhao Dong , Changqing Feng , Junchen Wang , Zhongtao Shen , Shubin Liu , Qi An

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 characterisation of the Timepix4 pixel front-end with a strong focus on timing performance is presented. Externally generated test pulses were used to probe the per-pixel time-to-digital converter (TDC) and measure the time-bin sizes by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-13 K. Heijhoff , K. Akiba , R. Ballabriga , M. van Beuzekom , M. Campbell , A. P. Colijn , M. Fransen , R. Geertsema , V. Gromov , X. Llopart Cudie

A double-layer silicon detector consisting of two 500micron-thick silicon PIN photodiodes with independent readouts was mounted in a vacuum chamber and tested with X-ray sources. The detector is sensitive from 1-30 keV with an effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hua Feng , Philip Kaaret , Hans Andersson

.On the basis of requirement of CSNS, we designed a TDC chip with temperature compensation function in this paper, which employed TSMC 180nm process. Using delay unit bufx8 as the major method, delay lines in each level delayed input signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 Yichao Ma , Xinyang Hong , Jian Zhuang , Zhijia Sun , Yafan Tao , Yongsheng Shi , Jianrong Zhou

The radiation hardness of passive CMOS pixel sensors fabricated in 150 nm LFoundry technology is investigated. CMOS process lines are especially of interest for large-scale silicon detectors as they offer high production throughput at…

Semiconductor devices are notoriously difficult to simulate at deep-cryogenic temperatures. The lowest temperature that can be simulated today in commercial TCAD is around 4.2 K, possibly 100 mK, while most experimental quantum science is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Arnout Beckers

A silicon 3D detector with a single cell of 50x50 um2 was produced and evaluated for timing applications. The measurements of time resolution were performed for 90Sr electrons with dedicated electronics used also for determining time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-26 G. Kramberger , V. Cindro , D. Flores , S. Hidalgo , B. Hiti , M. Manna , I. Mandić , M. Mikuž , D. Quirion , G. Pellegrini , M. Zavrtanik

Radial time projection chambers (TPC), already employed in the search for rare phenomena such as light Dark Matter candidate, could provide a new detection approach for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay ($\beta\beta0\nu$). The…

Xenoscope is a demonstrator for a next-generation xenon-based observatory for astroparticle physics, as proposed by the XLZD (XENON-LUX-ZEPLIN-DARWIN) collaboration. It houses a 2.6 m tall, two-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC), in…

The purpose of this study was to show how advanced concepts of compact, lossless and "Time Of Flight" (TOF) capable electronics similar to those foreseen for the LHC and ILC experiments could be fairly and easily transferred to the medical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-03 P. -E. Vert , J. Lecoq , G. Montarou , N. Pauna , B. Joly , M. Boutemeur , H. Mathez , R. Gaglione , P. Le Dû