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Precise measurement of neutrino-nucleus interactions with an accelerator neutrino beam is highly important for current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. To measure muon-neutrino charged-current interactions with…

This work reports a cost-effective, simple front-end readout and DAQ of a RPC-based muon scattering tomography system under construction. The Time-over-threshold property of NINO ASICs has been exploited to achieve precise tracking by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-01 Sridhar Tripathy , Subhendu Das , Jaydeep Datta , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay

An extensive system test of the ATLAS muon spectrometer has been performed in the H8 beam line at the CERN SPS during the last four years. This spectrometer will use pressurized Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers and Cathode Strip Chambers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Erez Etzion

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

The PHENIX muon trigger upgrade adds Level-1 trigger detectors to existing forward muon spectrometers and will enhance the ability of the experiment to pursue a rich program of spin physics in polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s)=500GeV.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 John Lajoie

Scintillation light generated as charged particles traverse large liquid argon detectors adds valuable information to studies of weakly-interacting particles. This paper uses both laboratory measurements and cosmic ray data from the Blanche…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-05 B. Howard , S. Mufson , D. Whittington , B. Adams , B. Baugh , J. R. Jordan , J. Karty , C. T. Macias , A. Pla-Dalmau

Cosmic rays are energetic nuclei and elementary particles that originate from stars and intergalactic events. The interaction of these particles with the upper atmosphere produces a range of secondary particles that reach the surface of the…

Primary cosmic rays when interact with our atmosphere, produce a cascade of lighter secondary particles namely pion, kaon, neutrons, muons, electrons, positrons and neutrinos. Muons are one of the most abundant and easily detectable…

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

Highly selective triggers are essential for the physics programme of the ATLAS experiment at HL-LHC where the instantaneous luminosity will be about an order of magnitude larger than the LHC instantaneous luminosity in Run 1. The first…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-04 H. Kroha , S. Nowak

Atmospheric muons are important probes for studying primary cosmic rays and extensive air showers. Additionally, they constitute a significant background for many underground and deep-sea neutrino experiments, such as TRopIcal DEep-sea…

The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will provide the unique opportunity to explore the nature of physics beyond the Standard Model of strong and electroweak interactions. Highly selective first-level triggers are essential for the physics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 S. Abovyan , V. Danielyan , M. Fras , P. Gadow , O. Kortner , S. Kortner , H. Kroha , F. Mueller , S. Nowak , R. Richter , K. Schmidt-Sommerfeld

A Cosmic Muon Veto (CMV) detector using extruded plastic scintillators is being designed around the mini-Iron Calorimeter (mini-ICAL) detector at the transit campus of the India based Neutrino Observatory, Madurai for the feasibility study…

The NUCLEUS experiment aims at measuring the coherent elastic scattering of nuclear reactor antineutrinos off nuclei using cryogenic calorimeters. Operating at an overburden of 3m.w.e., muon-induced backgrounds are expected to be dominant.…

We present and discuss the development and performance of a compact scintillating fiber (SciFi) detector for timing to be used in the Mu3e experiment at very high particle rates. The SciFi detector is read out with multichannel silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-23 A. Bravar , A. Buonaura , S. Corrodi , A. Damyanova , Y. Demets , L. Gerritzen , Ch. Grab , C. Martin Perez , A. Papa

Prototype scintilator+WLS strips with SiPM readout for a 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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-15 Dmitri Denisov , Valery Evdokimov , Strahinja Lukić

The study of novel quantum materials relies on muon-spin rotation, relaxation, or resonance (\mSR) measurements. Yet, a fundamental limitation persists: many of these materials can only be synthesized in extremely small quantities, often at…

Future LHC luminosity upgrades will significantly increase the amount of background hits from photons, neutrons and protons in the detectors of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. At the proposed LHC peak luminosity of 5*10^34 1/cm^2s, background…

Single-cell prototype drift chambers were built at TRIUMF and tested with a $\sim\unit[210]{MeV/c}$ beam of positrons, muons, and pions. A cluster-counting technique is implemented which improves the ability to distinguish muons and pions…