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Plan-view transmission electron microscopy (TEM) samples are key to understand the atomic structure and associated properties of materials along their growth orientation, especially for thin films that are stain-engineered onto different…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Supriya Ghosh , Fengdeng Liu , Sreejith Nair , Bharat Jalan , K. Andre Mkhoyan

Integrated silicon photonic devices, which manipulate light to transmit and process information on a silicon-on-insulator chip, are highly sensitive to structural variations. Minor deviations during nanofabrication-the precise process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Rambod Azimi , Yijian Kong , Dusan Gostimirovic , James J. Clark , Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

We report results on a tracking performance study performed using a beam telescope made of 50 micron-thick CMOS pixel sensors on the 1.5 GeV electron beam at the LBNL ALS.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-16 Marco Battaglia , Devis Contarato , Piero Giubilato , Lindsay Glesener , Leo Greiner , Benjamin Hooberman

We present prototype modules for a tracking detector consisting of multiple layers of 0.25 mm diameter scintillating fibers that are read out by linear arrays of silicon photomultipliers. The module production process is described and…

We show R&D results including long term stability, resolution, radiation hardness and characterization of Fiber Grating sensors used to monitor structure deformation, repositioning and surveying of silicon detector in High Energy Physics.

Fermilab is developing a Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) to increase throughput of its proton source. The plan addresses hardware modifications to increase repetition rate and improve beam loss while ensuring viable operation of the proton…

We report the design and test results of a beam monitor developed for online monitoring in hadron therapy. The beam monitor uses eight silicon pixel sensors, \textit{Topmetal-${II}^-$}, as the anode array. \textit{Topmetal-${II}^-$} is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-20 Zhen Wang , Shuguang Zou , Yan Fan , Jun Liu , Xiangming Sun , Dong Wang , Huili Kang , Daming Sun , Ping Yang , Hua Pei , Guangming Huang , Nu Xu , Chaosong Gao , Le Xiao

We discuss the generation of parametric X-rays in the new photoinjector at the FAST (Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology) facility in Fermilab. These experiments will be conducted in addition to channeling X-ray radiation…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tanaji Sen , Todd Seiss

Photoelectron yields of extruded scintillation counters with titanium dioxide coating and embedded wavelength shifting fibers read out by silicon photomultipliers have been measured at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility using 120\,GeV protons.…

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) is a widely used platform for nonlinear frequency conversion, as its strong nonlinear susceptibility and enhanced modal confinement intensify nonlinear interactions. Frequency doubling from NIR to visible…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-15 Sagar P. Doshi , Gavin N. West , Dodd Gray , Rajeev J. Ram

We report on the investigation of an approach for modelling light transmission through systems consisting of several jointed optical fibres, in which the analytical modelling of the waveguides was replaced by Finite Element Modelling (FEM)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Natascia Castagna , Jacques Morel , Luc Testa , Sven Burger

The Fermilab Muon Campus will host the Muon g-2 experiment - a world class experiment dedicated to the search for signals of new physics. Strict demands are placed on beam diagnostics in order to ensure delivery of high quality beams to the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 D. Stratakis , B. Drendel , M. J. Syphers

This study investigates different Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) approaches for the analysis of functionally graded (FG) porous beams and compares them under a new framework. The beam material properties are assumed to vary as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Mohammad Sadegh Eshaghi , Mostafa Bamdad , Cosmin Anitescu , Yizheng Wang , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk

Fermilab has been working with the international particle physics and nuclear physics communities to explore and develop research programs possible with a new high intensity proton source known as "Project-X". Project X will provide…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-09-19 R. Tschirhart

We describe a concept for a NASA SMEX Mission in which Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors, developed at CERN, are adapted for use in X-ray astronomy. These detectors can be used to obtain moderately large detector area and…

In order to meet the needs of Fermilabs planned post-collider experimental program, the total proton throughput of the 8 GeV Booster accelerator must be nearly doubled within the next two years. A system of 48 ramped corrector magnets has…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 M. McAteer , S. Kopp , E. Prebys

Run II at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider started in March 2001, and it will continue probing the high energy frontier in particle physics until the start of the LHC at CERN. The CDF collaboration at Fermilab has already stored 260 TB of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Jacques , F. Ratnikov , I. Terekhov , T. Watts

With the planned turn-on of the PIP-II 800 MeV superconducting proton linac, Fermilab will potentially become the world's best laboratory at which to carry out fundamental muon measurements, sensitive searches for symmetry violation, and…

Transverse 2D phase space distribution of a 2.1 MeV, 5 mA H$^-$ beam is measured at the PIPIT test accelerator at Fermilab with an Allison scanner. The paper describes the design, calibration, and performance of the scanner as well as the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 C. Richard , J. -P. Carneiro , B. Hanna , L. Prost , A. Saini , V. Scarpine , A. Shemyakin

Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB-SEM) imaging is a technique that image materials section-by-section at nano-resolution, e.g.,5 nanometer width voxels. FIB-SEM is well suited for imaging ultrastructures in cells.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-06 Hans Jacob Teglbjærg Stephensen , Sune Darkner , Jon Sporring