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The measurement of cosmic-ray individual spectra provides unique information regarding the origin and propagation of astro-particles. Due to the limited acceptance of current space experiments, protons and nuclei around the "knee" region…

Radiation measurement relies on pulse detection, which can be performed using various configurations of high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). For optimal power consumption, design…

A new readout technique was developed with the primary aim of keeping the number of channels in the front-end electronics as low as possible when scaling up the sensitive area of a Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC). The readout method here…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-16 João Pedro de Carvalho Saraiva , Alberto Blanco Castro

A front end ASIC has been designed to equip the {\mu}TPC prototype developed for the MIMAC project, which requires 3D reconstruction of low energy particle tracks in order to perform directional detection of galactic Dark Matter. Each ASIC…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 J. P. Richer , O. Bourrion , G. Bosson , O. Guillaudin , F. Mayet , D. Santos

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) are used as very sensitive thermometers in microcalorimeters aimed at detection of different wavelengths. In particular, for soft X-ray astrophysics, science goals require very high resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-19 E. Taralli , C. Pobes , P. Khosropanah , L. Fabrega , A. Camon , L. Gottardi , K. Nagayoshi , M. Ridder , M. Bruijn , J. R. Gao

We present characterization results and performance of a prototype Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor with 16 channels potentially suitable for faint object astronomical spectroscopy and low-signal,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Kenneth W. Lin , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Ana M. Botti , Javier Tiffenberg

Various chips for the silicon sensors measurements are described. These chips are based on 0.35 um and 0.18um CMOS technology. Several analog chips together with self-trigger /derandomizer one allow to measure silicon sensors designed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-13 E. Atkin , A. Kluev , A. Silaev , A. Fedenko , D. Karmanov , M. Merkin , A. Voronin

With the rapid development of network protocol, TCP/IP has been widely applied in various OS systems because of its advantages of high-speed network transmission and standardization. Furthermore, TCP/IP has the functions of retransmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Hangxu Li , Jie Zhang , Jingzi Gu , Xiaolu Ji , Yang Li , Jun Hu , Yunhua Sun , Xiaoshan Jiang , Zheng Wang

Building upon existing signal processing techniques and open-source software, this paper presents a baseline design for an RF System-on-Chip Frequency Division Multiplexed readout for a spatio-spectral focal plane instrument based on low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Colm Bracken , Eoin Baldwin , Gerhard Ulbricht , Mario de Lucia , Tom Ray

Very compact 70 MeV pulse race-track microtron is under construction now. To acquire outputs of beam-current transformers on every orbit and pulses of high voltage and RF field a distributed multi-channel beam diagnostic system was…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Chepurnov , I. Gribov , V. Shvedunov , F. Nedeoglo , O. Novojilov , S. Dudnikov

In this paper, a real-time 105-channel data acquisition platform based on FPGA for imaging will be implemented for mm-wave imaging systems. PC platform is also realized for imaging results monitoring purpose. Mm-wave imaging expands our…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Chengkai Guo , Jason Y. Du

We evaluate the performance of an Omnivision OV5647 CMOS image sensor (5 Mp) for detecting radiation from Sr90 and Cs137 sources. Our experimental setup uses a Raspberry Pi 3 mini-computer for data acquisition, with image processing using…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-18 M. Bonnett Del Alamo , R. Helaconde , C. Soncco , J. Bazo , A. M. Gago

Balloon- and space-borne cosmic-ray experiments employ plastic scintillators read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) to achieve picosecond-level time resolutions for triggering and particle identification. The performance of these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-14 José Reyes Castillo , Saúl Aguilar Salazar , Diego Mauricio Gomez Coral

We demonstrate a prototype kinetic inductance detector (KID) readout system that uses less than 10 mW per pixel. The CCAT-prime RFSoC based readout is capable of reading four independent detector networks of up to 1000 KIDs each. The power…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-02 Adrian K. Sinclair , James R. Burgoyne , Yaqiong Li , Cody Duell , Scott C. Chapman , Anthony I. Huber , Ruixuan Xie

We present the methodology of a photon-conserving, spatially-adaptive, ray-tracing radiative transfer algorithm, designed to run on multiple parallel Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). Each GPU has thousands computing cores, making them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Blake Hartley , Massimo Ricotti

The pCam6060 photodetecting system was developed at SAO RAS and is based on the GSENSE6060BSI photodetector manufactured by GPixel (China) with a frame format of 6144x6144 active pixels and a pixel size of 10 mkm. The readout speed reached…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 I. Afanasieva , V. Murzin , V. Ardilanov , N. Ivaschenko , M. Pritychenko

We present the conceptual design of the modular detector and readout system for the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4) ground-based survey experiment. CMB-S4 will map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the millimeter-wave…

The apparatus of the ALICE experiment at CERN will be upgraded in 2017/18 during the second long shutdown of the LHC (LS2). A major motivation for this upgrade is to extend the physics reach for charmed and beauty particles down to low…

A resonant photoacoustic cell capable of detecting the traces of gases at an amplitude-modulation regime is represented. The cell is designed so as to minimize the window background for the cell operation at a selected acoustic resonance. A…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-29 A. L. Ulasevich , A. V. Gorelik , A. A. Kouzmouk , V. S. Starovoitov

This paper presents a millimeter-scale CMOS 64$\times$64 single charged particle radiation detector system for external beam cancer radiotherapy. A 1$\times$1 $\mu m^2$ diode measures energy deposition by a single charged particle in the…