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The light yield and the time resolution of different types of 3 m long scintillating bars instrumented with wavelength shifting fibres and read out by different models of silicon photomultipliers have been measured at a test beam at the T9…

We report on the development of a front-end ASIC for silicon-strip detectors of the J-PARC Muon g-2/EDM experiment. This experiment aims to measure the muon anomalous magnetic moment and electric dipole moment precisely to explore new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-30 Yuki Tsutsumi , Tetsuichi Kishishita , Yutaro Sato , Masayoshi Shoji , Manobu M. Tanaka , Tsutomu Mibe , Junji Tojo

We describe a compact apparatus that automatically measures the charge averaged lifetime of atmospheric muons in plastic scintillator using low-cost, low-power electronics and that measures the stopping rate of atmospheric muons as a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 Thomas Coan , Tiankuan Liu , Jingbo Ye

Precise measurement of radiation has long played a vital role in a wide range of research and industrial fields, from fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model to medical imaging such as time-of-flight positron emission tomography.…

The WIMPs search project PICO-LON has been started with multilayer thin NaI(Tl) crystals. The thin (0.05cm) and wide area (5cmx5cm) NaI(Tl) crystals was successfully developed. The performances of thin NaI(Tl) scintillator was measured and…

ATLAS is a detector under construction to explore the physics at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It has a muon spectrometer with an excellent momentum resolution of 3-10%, provided by three layers of precision monitored-drift-tube…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Horvat , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , A. Manz , S. Mohrdieck , V. Zhuravlov

The resolution and efficiency of a precision drift-tube chamber for the ATLAS muon spectrometer with final read-out electronics was tested at the Gamma Irradiation Facility at CERN in a 100 GeV muon beam and at photon irradiation rates of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-06 M. Deile , J. Dubbert , S. Horvat , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , A. Manz , S. Mohrdieck-Moeck , F. Rauscher , R. Richter , A. Staude , W. Stiller

The B physics programme of the ATLAS experiment includes measurements of production cross sections, searches for rare B-decay signatures which are sensitive to new physics at the TeV energy scale and studies of CP violation effects in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-16 A. Picazio

AMoRE-II is the second phase of the Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare process Experiment aiming to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay of 100Mo isotopes using ~ 200 kg of molybdenum-containing cryogenic detectors. The AMoRE-II needs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-13 J. W. Seo , W. T. Kim , Y. D. Kim , H. Y. Lee , J. Lee , M. H. Lee , P. B. Nyanda , E. S. Yi

Random coincidences of events could be one of the main sources of background in the search for neutrino-less double-beta decay of $^{100}$Mo with macro-bolometers, due to their modest time resolution. Scintillating bolometers as those based…

The Strontium Iodide Radiation Instrument (SIRI) is a single detector, gamma-ray spectrometer designed to space-qualify the new scintillation detector material europium-doped strontium iodide (SrI2:Eu) and new silicon photomultiplier (SiPM)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-29 Lee J. Mitchell , Bernard F. Phlips , J. Eric Grove , Theodore Finne , Mary Johnson-Rambert , W. Neil Johnson

What are cosmic particles and where do they come from? These are questions which are not only fascinating for scientists in astrophysics. With the CosMO experiment (Cosmic Muon Observer) students can autonomously study these particles. They…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-16 R. Franke , M. Holler , B. Kaminsky , T. Karg , H. Prokoph , A. Schönwald , C. Schwerdt , A. Stößl , M. Walter

With the increases in the LHC instantaneous luminosity, maintaining effective triggering and avoiding dead time will become especially challenging. As the sensitivity of many physics studies, depends critically on the ability to maintain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-09 A. Castaneda

This study focuses on developing a self-triggered data acquisition system and a noise reduction algorithm for the Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOF-PET) system. The system integrates a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-13 Jianing Liu , Yuelei Ma , Ziyang Chen , Zhenyan Li , Yi Wang , Baohong Guo , Dong Han , Yuanjing Li

The SiPM-on-Tile technology for highly granular calorimeters, where small plastic scintillator tiles are directly read out with SiPMs, has been developed for the CALICE Analog Hadron Calorimeter, and has been adopted for parts of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-04 Fabian Hummer , Lorenz Emberger , Frank Simon

A computer model of a scintillator strip veto counter was built in order to verify the efficiency of the cosmic muon veto for the COMET experiment. To tune the model, experimentally measured data were utilized. Three different geometrical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-25 Oleg Markin , Evgueny Tarkovsky

LiquidO is an innovative radiation detector concept. The core idea is to exploit stochastic light confinement in a highly scattering medium to self-segment the detector volume. In this paper, we demonstrate event-by-event muon tracking in a…

The stable rotation of young pulsars is often interrupted by two non-deterministic phenomena: glitches and red timing noise. Timing noise provides insights into plasma and nuclear physics under extreme conditions. The framework leverages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Yirong Wen , Jingbo Wang , Wenming Yan , Jianping Yuan , Na Wang , Yong Xia , Jing Zou

This paper investigates the feasibility of re-purposing the MuCool Test Area (MTA) beamline and experimental hall to support a Muon Spin Resonance (MuSR) facility, which would make it the only such facility in the US. This report reviews…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 John A. Johnstone , Carol Johnstone

The CAEN V1751 is a new generation of Waveform Digitizer recently introduced by CAEN SpA. It features 8 Channels per board, 10 bit, 1 GS/s using Flash ADCs Waveform Digitizers (or 4 channels at 2 GS/s in Dual Edge Sampling mode) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-03 R. Acciarri , N. Canci , F. Cavanna , A. Cortopassi , M. D'Incecco , G. Mini , F. Pietropaolo , A. Romboli , E. Segreto , A. M. Szelc