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Noise characteristics and MIP registration efficiency of the Scintillation Tile with MRS APD Light Readout (START) were measured with cosmic particles. Encouraging results open a broad range of possibilities for using START in large-scale…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Akindinov , D. Mal'kevich , A. Smirnitskiy , K. Voloshin

START, a high-efficiency and low-noise scintillation detector for ionizing particles, was developed for the purpose of creating a high-granular system for triggering cosmic muons. Scintillation light in START is detected by MRS APDs…

A Cosmic Ray Test Facility (CRTF) is the first large-scale implementation of a scintillation triggering system based on a new scintillation technique known as START. In START, the scintillation light is collected and transported by WLS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Akindinov , V. Golovin , E. Grigoriev , Yu. Grishuk , S. Kuleshov , D. Malkevich , A. Martemiyanov , A. Nedosekin , M. Ryabinin , K. Voloshin

Experiments such as mu2e (FNAL, USA) and COMET (KEK, Japan), seeking the direct muon-to-electron conversion as part of the study of Charged Leptons Flavor Violation processes, should have a extremely high, up-to 99.99\%, efficiency muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-04 A. Artikov , V. Baranov , A. Boikov , D. Chokheli , Yu. I. Davydov , V. Glagolev , A. Simonenko , Z. Tsamalaidze , I. Vasilyev , I. Zimin

Experiments like ATLAS at the HL-LHC or detectors at future hadron colliders need muon detectors with excellent momentum resolution up to the TeV scale both at the trigger and offline reconstruction levels. This requires muon tracking…

Muography, traditionally recognized as a potent instrument for imaging the internal structure of gigantic objects, has initialized various interdisciplinary applications. As the financial and labor costs of muography detector development…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-14 Tao Yu , Yunsong Ning , Yi Yuan , Shihan Zhao , Songran Qi , Minchen Sun , Yuye Li , Zhirui Liu , Aiyu Bai , Hesheng Liu , Yibo Lin , Geng Tuo , Ting On Chan , Zhou Zhou , Yu Chen , Yu Chen , Jian Tang

We propose a large-area, cost-effective Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) for the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) at mid-rapidity and for the next generation of detectors at a possible electron-ion collider. We utilize Multi-gap Resistive…

ATLAS muon detector upgrades aim for increased acceptance for muon triggering and precision tracking and for improved rate capability of the muon chambers in the high-background regions of the detector with increasing LHC luminosity. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 Hubert Kroha , Oliver Kortner , Korbinian Schmidt-Sommerfeld , Eric Takasugi

Small-diameter Drift Tube (sMDT) detectors with 15 mm tube diameter have proven to be excellent candidates for precision muon tracking detectors in experiments at future hadron colliders like HL-LHC and FCC-hh where unprecedentedly high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-13 G. H. Eberwein , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , E. Voevodina

Research on a large-area, cost-effective Muon Telescope Detector has been carried out for RHIC and for next generation detectors at future QCD Lab. We utilize state-of-the-art multi-gap resistive plate chambers with large modules and long…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Lijuan Ruan

A pico-second timing (PIST) front-end electronic chip has been developed using $55~\mathrm{nm}$ CMOS technology for future electron-positron collider experiments (namely Higgs factories). Extensive tests have been performed to evaluate the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-06 Xin Xia , Dejing Du , Xiaoshan Jiang , Yong Liu , Bo Lu , Junguang Lyu , Baohua Qi , Manqi Ruan , Xiongbo Yan

The design, simulation, fabrication, calibration, and performance of the GlueX Start Counter detector is described. The Start Counter was designed to operate at integrated rates of up to 9 MHz with a timing resolution in the range of 500 to…

We present the upgraded design, construction, and beam test results for the Muon Trigger Detector (MTD) developed for the muon Electric Dipole Moment (muEDM) experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. This experiment…

We developed a compact and rugged muon detector designed for deployment in boreholes. The detector uses a SiPM-on-tile approach in which silicon photomultipliers are directly coupled to scintillator tiles, thereby eliminating the need for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-07 Miguel Arratia , Jiajun Huang , Sean Preins , Sebastian Ritter , Christian P. Romero , Sebastian Tapia

With half the drift-tube diameter of the Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers of the ATLAS muon spectrometer and otherwise unchanged operating parameters, small-diameter Muon Drift Tube (sMDT) chambers provide an order of magnitude higher…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-22 C. Ferretti , H. Kroha

Pressurized drift-tube chambers are efficient detectors for high-precision tracking over large areas. The Monitored Drift-Tube (MDT) chambers of the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reach a spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-04 B. Bittner , J. Dubbert , S. Horvat , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , F. Legger , R. Richter , S. Adomeit , O. Biebel , A. Engl , R. Hertenberger , F. Rauscher , A. Zibell

Small-diameter muon drift tube (sMDT) detectors have been developed for upgrades of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. With a tube diameter of 15 mm, they provide an about an order of magnitude higher rate capability than the present ATLAS muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 H. Kroha , R. Fakhrutdinov , O. Kortner , A. Kozhin , K. Schmidt-Sommerfeld , E. Takasugi

Prototype scintilator+WLS strips with SiPM readout for muon system at future colliders were tested for light yield, time resolution and position resolution. Depending on the configuration, light yield of up to 36 photoelectrons per muon per…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-13 Dmitri Denisov , Valery Evdokimov , Strahinja Lukić

The Monitored Drift Tubes, as a part of the ATLAS muon spectrometer, are precision drift chambers designed to provide excellent spatial resolution and high tracking efficiency independent of the track angle. Through the life of the LHC and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-15 G. H. Eberwein , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , M. Rendel , P. Rieck , D. Soyk , E. Voevodina , V. Walbrecht

This paper reports on the design and construction of a chamber for the muon identifier detector (MID) of the ALICE 3 upgrade project. The chamber consists of two sensitive layers separated by a 1 cm air gap. Each layer holds 24 scintillator…

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