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Validation Measures in CMMI

Validation is one of the software engineering disciplines that help build quality into software. The major objective of software validation process is to determine that the software performs its intended functions correctly and provide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Mahmoud Khraiwesh

Precision Measurement of Pixel Sensor Capacitance

The capacitance of the charge collection node of a sensor system is an important parameter for the design of the analog front-end electronics. The analog front-end of high-granularity sensors like for example hybrid pixel detectors need to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 H. Krüger , E. Kimmerle

CLIP Based Region-Aware Feature Fusion for Automated BBPS Scoring in Colonoscopy Images

Accurate assessment of bowel cleanliness is essential for effective colonoscopy procedures. The Boston Bowel Preparation Scale (BBPS) offers a standardized scoring system but suffers from subjectivity and inter-observer variability when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Yujia Fu , Zhiyu Dong , Tianwen Qian , Chenye Zheng , Danian Ji , Linhai Zhuo

Development and Quality Control of PMT Modules for the Large-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

The camera of the Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) consists of 1855 pixels that are grouped into 265 high-performance photomultiplier tube (PMT) modules. Each module comprises a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 T. Saito , M. Takahashi , Y. Inome , H. Abe , M. Artero , O. Blanch , J. Becerra González , S. Fukami , D. Hadasch , Y. Hanabata , Y. Hattori , J. Herrera Llorente , K. Ishio , H. Iwasaki , H. Katagiri , K. Kawamura , D. Kerszberg , S. Kimura , T. Kiyomoto , T. Kojima , Y. Konno , Y. Kobayashi , S. Koyama , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , A. López-Oramas , S. Masuda , S. Matsuoka , D. Mazin , D. Nakajima , T. Nakamori , T. Nagayoshi , D. Ninci , K. Nishijima , G. Nishiyama , Y. Nogami , S. Nozaki , M. Ogino , H. Ohoka , T. Oka , S. Ono , A. Okumura , R. Orito , A. Rugliancich , S. Sakurai , N. Sasaki , Y. Sunada , M. Suzuki , K. Tamura , J. Takeda , Y. Terada , M. Teshima , F. Tokanai , Y. Tomono , S. Tsujimoto , Y. Tsukamoto , Y. Umetsu , T. Yamamoto , T. Yoshida

The CMS Beam Halo Monitor Detector System

A new Beam Halo Monitor (BHM) detector system has been installed in the CMS cavern to measure the machine-induced background (MIB) from the LHC. This background originates from interactions of the LHC beam halo with the final set of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Kelly Stifter

Structural Dependency Analysis for Masked NTT Hardware: Scalable Pre-Silicon Verification of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Accelerators

Post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) accelerators implementing ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204) require side-channel resistance evidence for FIPS 140-3 certification. However, exact masking-verification tools scale only to gadgets of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ray Iskander , Khaled Kirah

A High-resolution Scintillating Fiber Tracker With Silicon Photomultiplier Array Readout

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-22 Bastian Beischer , Henning Gast , Roman Greim , Waclaw Karpinski , Thomas Kirn , Tatsuya Nakada , Gregorio Roper Yearwood , Stefan Schael , Michael Wlochal

Single-Stage Broad Multi-Instance Multi-Label Learning (BMIML) with Diverse Inter-Correlations and its application to medical image classification

described by multiple instances (e.g., image patches) and simultaneously associated with multiple labels. Existing MIML methods are useful in many applications but most of which suffer from relatively low accuracy and training efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Qi Lai , Jianhang Zhou , Yanfen Gan , Chi-Man Vong , Deshuang Huang

Acceptance Tests of more than 10 000 Photomultiplier Tubes for the multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules of the IceCube Upgrade

More than 10,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) with a diameter of 80 mm will be installed in multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules (mDOMs) of the IceCube Upgrade. These have been tested and pre-calibrated at two sites. A throughput of more than…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 R. Abbasi , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , S. K. Agarwalla , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , J. M. Alameddine , N. M. Amin , K. Andeen , C. Argüelles , Y. Ashida , S. Athanasiadou , L. Ausborm , S. N. Axani , X. Bai , A. Balagopal V. , M. Baricevic , S. W. Barwick , S. Bash , V. Basu , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , J. Becker Tjus , J. Beise , C. Bellenghi , C. Benning , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , E. Blaufuss , L. Bloom , S. Blot , F. Bontempo , J. Y. Book Motzkin , C. Boscolo Meneguolo , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , J. Braun , B. Brinson , J. Brostean-Kaiser , L. Brusa , R. T. Burley , D. Butterfield , M. A. Campana , I. Caracas , K. Carloni , J. Carpio , S. Chattopadhyay , N. Chau , Z. Chen , D. Chirkin , S. Choi , B. A. Clark , A. Coleman , G. H. Collin , A. Connolly , J. M. Conrad , P. Coppin , R. Corley , P. Correa , D. F. Cowen , P. Dave , C. De Clercq , J. J. DeLaunay , D. Delgado , S. Deng , A. Desai , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , T. DeYoung , A. Diaz , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , P. Dierichs , M. Dittmer , A. Domi , L. Draper , H. Dujmovic , K. Dutta , M. A. DuVernois , T. Ehrhardt , L. Eidenschink , A. Eimer , P. Eller , E. Ellinger , S. El Mentawi , D. Elsässer , R. Engel , H. Erpenbeck , J. Evans , P. A. Evenson , K. L. Fan , K. Fang , K. Farrag , A. R. Fazely , A. Fedynitch , N. Feigl , S. Fiedlschuster , C. Finley , L. Fischer , D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , S. Fukami , P. Fürst , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , A. Garcia , M. Garcia , G. Garg , E. Genton , L. Gerhardt , A. Ghadimi , C. Girard-Carillo , C. Glaser , T. Glüsenkamp , J. G. Gonzalez , S. Goswami , A. Granados , D. Grant , S. J. Gray , O. Gries , S. Griffin , S. Griswold , K. M. Groth , C. Günther , P. Gutjahr , C. Ha , C. Haack , A. Hallgren , L. Halve , F. Halzen , H. Hamdaoui , M. Ha Minh , M. Handt , K. Hanson , J. Hardin , A. A. Harnisch , P. Hatch , A. Haungs , J. Häußler , K. Helbing , J. Hellrung , J. Hermannsgabner , L. Heuermann , N. Heyer , S. Hickford , A. Hidvegi , C. Hill , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , S. Hori , K. Hoshina , M. Hostert , W. Hou , T. Huber , K. Hultqvist , M. Hünnefeld , R. Hussain , K. Hymon , A. Ishihara , W. Iwakiri , M. Jacquart , O. Janik , M. Jansson , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , M. Jin , B. J. P. Jones , R. Joppe , N. Kamp , D. Kang , W. Kang , X. Kang , A. Kappes , D. Kappesser , L. Kardum , T. Karg , M. Karl , A. Karle , A. Katil , U. Katz , M. Kauer , J. L. Kelley , M. Khanal , A. Khatee Zathul , A. Kheirandish , J. Kiryluk , A. Kochocki , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , T. Kontrimas , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kossatz , P. Koundal , M. Kovacevich , M. Kowalski , T. Kozynets , J. Krishnamoorthi , K. Kruiswijk , E. Krupczak , A. Kumar , E. Kun , N. Kurahashi , N. Lad , C. Lagunas Gualda , M. Lamoureux , M. J. Larson , S. Latseva , F. Lauber , J. P. Lazar , J. W. Lee , K. Leonard DeHolton , A. Leszczyńska , J. Liao , M. Lincetto , Y. T. Liu , M. Liubarska , E. Lohfink , C. Love , C. J. Lozano Mariscal , L. Lu , F. Lucarelli , W. Luszczak , Y. Lyu , J. Madsen , E. Magnus , K. B. M. Mahn , Y. Makino , E. Manao , S. Mancina , W. Marie Sainte , I. C. Mariş , S. Marka , Z. Marka , M. Marsee , I. Martinez-Soler , R. Maruyama , F. Mayhew , F. McNally , J. V. Mead , K. Meagher , S. Mechbal , A. Medina , M. Meier , Y. Merckx , L. Merten , J. Micallef , J. Mitchell , T. Montaruli , R. W. Moore , Y. Morii , R. Morse , M. Moulai , T. Mukherjee , R. Naab , R. Nagai , M. Nakos , U. Naumann , J. Necker , A. Negi , L. Neste , M. Neumann , H. Niederhausen , M. U. Nisa , K. Noda , A. Noell , A. Novikov , A. Obertacke Pollmann , V. O'Dell , B. Oeyen , A. Olivas , R. Orsoe , J. Osborn , E. O'Sullivan , H. Pandya , N. Park , G. K. Parker , E. N. Paudel , L. Paul , C. Pérez de los Heros , T. Pernice , J. Peterson , S. Philippen , A. Pizzuto , M. Plum , A. Pontén , Y. Popovych , M. Prado Rodriguez , B. Pries , R. Procter-Murphy , G. T. Przybylski , C. Raab , J. Rack-Helleis , M. Ravn , K. Rawlins , Z. Rechav , A. Rehman , P. Reichherzer , E. Resconi , S. Reusch , W. Rhode , B. Riedel , A. Rifaie , E. J. Roberts , S. Robertson , S. Rodan , G. Roellinghoff , M. Rongen , A. Rosted , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , L. Ruohan , D. Ryckbosch , I. Safa , J. Saffer , D. Salazar-Gallegos , P. Sampathkumar , A. Sandrock , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , S. Sarkar , J. Savelberg , P. Savina , P. Schaile , M. Schaufel , H. Schieler , S. Schindler , B. Schlüter , F. Schlüter , N. Schmeisser , T. Schmidt , J. Schneider , F. G. Schröder , L. Schumacher , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , M. Seikh , M. Seo , S. Seunarine , P. Sevle Myhr , R. Shah , S. Shefali , N. Shimizu , M. Silva , B. Skrzypek , B. Smithers , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , A. Søgaard , D. Soldin , P. Soldin , G. Sommani , C. Spannfellner , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , T. Stezelberger , T. Stürwald , T. Stuttard , K. H. Sulanke , G. W. Sullivan , I. Taboada , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , M. Thiesmeyer , W. G. Thompson , J. Thwaites , S. Tilav , K. Tollefson , C. Tönnis , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , A. Trettin , R. Turcotte , J. P. Twagirayezu , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , A. K. Upadhyay , K. Upshaw , A. Vaidyanathan , N. Valtonen-Mattila , J. Vandenbroucke , N. van Eijndhoven , D. Vannerom , J. van Santen , J. Vara , J. Veitch-Michaelis , M. Venugopal , M. Vereecken , S. Verpoest , D. Veske , A. Vijai , C. Walck , A. Wang , C. Weaver , P. Weigel , A. Weindl , J. Weldert , A. Y. Wen , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , M. Weyrauch , N. Whitehorn , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , L. Witthaus , A. Wolf , M. Wolf , G. Wrede , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , E. Yildizci , S. Yoshida , R. Young , S. Yu , T. Yuan , Z. Zhang , P. Zhelnin , P. Zilberman , M. Zimmerman

Optimization of LYSO crystals and SiPM parameters for the CMS MIP timing detector

For the High-Luminosity (HL-LHC) phase, the upgrade of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN will include a novel MIP Timing Detector (MTD). The central part of MTD, the barrel timing layer (BTL), is designed to provide a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-14 F. Addesa , T. Anderson , P. Barria , C. Basile , A. Benaglia , R. Bertoni , A. Bethani , R. Bianco , A. Bornheim , G. Boldrini , A. Boletti , A. Bulla , M. Campana , B. Cardwell , P. Carniti , F. Cetorelli , F. De Guio , K. De Leo , F. De Riggi , J. Dervan , E. Fernandez , A. Gaile , M. Gallinaro , A. Ghezzi , C. Gotti , R. Goldouzian , V. Guglielmi , A. Heering , Z. Hu , M. Jose , A. Karneyeu , A. Krishna , B. Kronheim , C. Kuo , A. La Torre , A. Li , F. Lombardi , M. T. Lucchini , M. Malberti , Y. Mao , B. Marzocchi , P. Meridiani , Y. Musienko , C. Neu , G. Organtini , T. Orimoto , C. Palmer , M. Paganoni , S. Palluotto , R. Paramatti , G. Pessina , R. T. Perelman , C. Quaranta , N. Redaelli , S. Redaelli , G. Reales Gutiérrez , S. Ronchi , F. Santanastasio , I. Schmidt , J. C. Silva , G. Sorrentino , X. Sun , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , M. Tosi , B. Ujvari , J. Varela , J. Wang , M. Wayne , S. White , L. Zhang , M. Zhang

The quality control programme for ITk strip tracker module assembly

The assembly of the ATLAS Inner Tracker requires the construction of 19,000 silicon strip sensor detector modules in eight different geometries. Modules will be assembled and tested at 31 institutes on four continents from sensors, readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-08 Abraham Tishelman-Charny

ATLAS IBL Pixel Upgrade

The upgrade for ATLAS detector will undergo different phase towards super-LHC. The first upgrade for the Pixel detector will consist of the construction of a new pixel layer which will be installed during the first shutdown of the LHC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-27 A. La Rosa

Characterization of a CMOS pixel sensor for charged particle tracking

A prototype of the CMOS pixel sensor named SUPIX-1 has been fabricated and tested in order to investigate the feasibility of a pixelated tracker for a proposed Higgs factory, namely, the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC). The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-05 L. Li , L. Zhang , J. N. Dong , J. Liu , M. Wang

Development of CMOS pixel sensors for tracking and vertexing in high energy physics experiments

CMOS pixel sensors (CPS) represent a novel technological approach to building charged particle detectors. CMOS processes allow to integrate a sensing volume and readout electronics in a single silicon die allowing to build sensors with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-11 Serhiy Senyukov , Jerome Baudot , Auguste Besson , Giles Claus , Loic Cousin , Wojciech Dulinski , Mathieu Goffe , Boris Hippolyte , Robert Maria , Levente Molnar , Xitzel Sanchez Castro , Marc Winter

Pre-Production and Quality Assurance of the Mu2e Calorimeter Silicon Photomultipliers

The Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter has to provide precise information on energy, time and position for $\sim$100 MeV electrons. It is composed of 1348 un-doped CsI crystals, each coupled to two large area Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 M. Cordelli , F. Cervelli , E. Diociaiuti , S. Donati , R. Donghia , S. Di Falco , A. Ferrari , S. Giovannella , F. Happacher , M. Martini , L. Morescalchi , S. Miscetti , S. Muller , E. Pedreschi , G. Pezzullo , I. Sarra , F. Spinella

Beam Test Performance Studies of CMS Phase-2 Outer Tracker Module Prototypes

A new tracking detector will be installed as part of the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS detector for the high-luminosity LHC era. This tracking detector includes the Inner Tracker, equipped with silicon pixel sensor modules, and the Outer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-02 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

CMS pixel upgrade project

The LHC machine at CERN finished its first year of pp collisions at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV. While the commissioning to exploit its full potential is still ongoing, there are plans to upgrade its components to reach instantaneous…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-03-22 Hans-Christian Kästli

Measurement of the fractional radiation length of a pixel module for the CMS Phase-2 upgrade via the multiple scattering of positrons

High-luminosity particle collider experiments such as the ones planned at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider require ever-greater vertexing precision of the tracking detectors, necessitating also reductions in the material budget of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-20 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

The proposal of improved component selection framework

Component selection is considered one of hard tasks in Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE). It is difficult to find the optimal component selection. CBSE is an approach that is used to develop a software system from pre-existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Weam Gaoud Alghabban , M. Rizwan Jameel Qureshi

Evaluation of 3D pixel silicon sensors for the CMS Phase-2 Inner Tracker

The high-luminosity upgrade of the CERN LHC requires the replacement of the CMS tracking detector to cope with the increased radiation fluence while maintaining its excellent performance. An extensive R\&D program, aiming at using 3D pixel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-16 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration