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We develop a potential algorithm to relate the depth development of ultra high energy extensive air showers and the time delay for individual muons. The time distributions sampled at different positions at ground level by a large air shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Cazon , R. A. Vazquez , E. Zas

In the paper, we discuss the development of the multi-gap resistive plate chamber Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology and the production of the STAR TOF detector in China at the beginning of the 21st century. Then we review recent experimental…

A micro time-projection-chamber (micro-TPC) with a detection volume of 23*28*31 cm^3 was developed, and its fundamental performance was examined. The micro-TPC consists of a micro pixel chamber with a detection area of 31*31 cm^2 as a…

We have previously reported on the construction and successful operation of the novel double phase Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). This detector concept provides a 3D-tracking and calorimetric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

Real-time probing of electrons can uncover intricate relaxation mechanisms and many-body interactions hidden in strongly correlated materials. While experimenters have used ultrafast optical pump-probe methods in bulk materials, laser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 H. M. Yoo , M. Korkusinski , D. Miravet , K. W. Baldwin , K. West , L. Pfeiffer , P. Hawrylak , R. C. Ashoori

The characteristics of triple GEM detectors have been studied systematically by using cosmic ray muons. The minimum ionizing particle (MIP) spectra has been taken for different GEM voltage setting. Efficiency of GEM detector has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Biswas , D. J. Schmidt , A. Abuhoza , U. Frankenfeld , C. Garabatos , J. Hehner , V. Kleipa , T. Morhardt , C. J. Schmidt , H. R. Schmidt , J. Wiechula

The MuCap experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute performed a high-precision measurement of the rate of the basic electroweak process of nuclear muon capture by the proton, $\mu^- + p \rightarrow n + \nu_\mu$. The experimental approach…

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) aims to observe the neutrinoless double beta decay of \ensuremath{{}^{136}\rm Xe} in a high-pressure gas xenon Time Projection Chamber using electroluminescence to amplify the signal from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Paola Ferrario

We present results from two test beam campaigns that investigate the performance of straw tube detectors as potential candidates for an FCC-ee straw tracker. These studies were carried out at CERN using 150 GeV muon beams. Dedicated…

Advances in analytical scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS) based microheaters have enabled in-situ materials characterization at the nanometer scale at elevated temperature. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-09 Yi-Chieh Yang , Luca Serafin , Nicolas Gauquelin , Johan Verbeeck , Joerg R. Jinschek

Efforts to push the spatiotemporal imaging-resolution limits of femtosecond (fs) laser-driven ultrafast electron microscopes (UEMs) to the combined angstrom-fs range will benefit from stable sources capable of generating high bunch charges.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-25 Jialiang Chen , Simon A. Willis , David J. Flannigan

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has become the technique of choice for quantitative characterization of atomic structure of materials, where the minute displacements of atomic columns from high-symmetry positions can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-05 Kevin M. Roccapriore , Nicole Creange , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

Sample thickness is an important parameter in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging, for interpreting image contrast and understanding the relationship between properties and microstructure. In this study, we introduce a method for…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-15 Pengfei Nan , Zhiyao Liang , Yue Zhang , Yangrui Liu , Dongsheng Song , Binghui Ge

We report the performance of a 10 atm Xenon/trimethylamine time projection chamber (TPC) for the detection of X-rays (30 keV) and gamma-rays (0.511-1.275 MeV) in conjunction with the accurate tracking of the associated electrons. When…

Dual-phase liquid-xenon time projection chambers (LXe TPCs) deploying a few tonnes of liquid are presently leading the search for WIMP dark matter. Scaling these detectors to 10-fold larger fiducial masses, while improving their sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-17 G. Martínez-Lema , A. Roy , A. Breskin , L. Arazi

The Wake Field Monitor (WFM) system installed on the CLIC prototype accelerating structure in CERN Linear Accelerator for Research (CLEAR) has two channels for each horizontal/vertical plane, operating at different frequencies. When moving…

The RELICS (REactor neutrino LIquid xenon Coherent elastic Scattering) experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from reactor antineutrinos using a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. To validate the…

Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at a neutrino factory and to provide lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 MICE Collaboration , M. Bogomilov , R. Tsenov , G. Vankova-Kirilova , Y. Song , J. Tang , Z. Li , R. Bertoni , M. Bonesini , F. Chignoli , R. Mazza , V. Palladino , A. de Bari , G. Cecchet , D. Orestano , L. Tortora , Y. Kuno , S. Ishimoto , F. Filthaut , D. Jokovic , D. Maletic , M. Savic , O. M. Hansen , S. Ramberger , M. Vretenar , R. Asfandiyarov , A. Blondel , F. Drielsma , Y. Karadzhov , G. Charnley , N. Collomb , A. Gallagher , A. Grant , S. Griffiths , T. Hartnett , B. Martlew , A. Moss , A. Muir , I. Mullacrane , A. Oates , P. Owens , G. Stokes , M. Tucker , P. Warburton , C. White , D. Adams , R. J. Anderson , P. Barclay , V. Bayliss , J. Boehm , T. W. Bradshaw , M. Courthold , K. Dumbell , V. Francis , L. Fry , T. Hayler , M. Hills , A. Lintern , C. Macwaters , A. Nichols , R. Preece , S. Ricciardi , C. Rogers , T. Stanley , J. Tarrant , A. Wilson , S. Watson , R. Bayes , J. C. Nugent , F. J. P. Soler , R. Gamet , G. Barber , V. J. Blackmore , D. Colling , A. Dobbs , P. Dornan , C. Hunt , A. Kurup , J-B. Lagrange , K. Long , J. Martyniak , S. Middleton , J. Pasternak , M. A. Uchida , J. H. Cobb , W. Lau , C. N. Booth , P. Hodgson , J. Langlands , E. Overton , M. Robinson , P. J. Smith , S. Wilbur , A. J. Dick , K. Ronald , C. G. Whyte , A. R. Young , S. Boyd , P. Franchini , J. R. Greis , C. Pidcott , I. Taylor , R. B. S. Gardener , P. Kyberd , J. J. Nebrensky , M. Palmer , H. Witte , A. D. Bross , D. Bowring , A. Liu , D. Neuffer , M. Popovic , P. Rubinov , A. DeMello , S. Gourlay , D. Li , S. Prestemon , S. Virostek , B. Freemire , P. Hanlet , D. M. Kaplan , T. A. Mohayai , D. Rajaram , P. Snopok , V. Suezaki , Y. Torun , Y. Onel , L. M. Cremaldi , D. A. Sanders , D. J. Summers , G. G. Hanson , C. Heidt

The Muon Chamber (MuCh) is a sub-system of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment for the detection of low-mass-vector mesons produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions at beam energies ranging from 2 AGeV to 11 AGeV and decaying…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-04 Mitali Mondal , Tanay Dey , Subhasis Chattopadhyay , Jogender Saini , Zubayer Ahammed

The TWIST Collaboration has completed its measurement of the three muon decay parameters \rho, \delta, and P_\mu\xi. This paper describes our determination of \rho, which governs the shape of the overall momentum spectrum, and \delta, which…