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Atmospheric neutrino oscillations are important to the study of neutrino properties, including the neutrino mass ordering problem. A good capability to identify neutrinos' flavor and neutrinos against antineutrinos is crucial in such…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-16 Jiaxi Liu , Fanrui Zeng , Hongyue Duyang , Wanlei Guo , Xinhai He , Teng Li , Zhen Liu , Wuming Luo , Wing Yan Ma , Xiaohan Tan , Liangjian Wen , Zekun Yang , Yongpeng Zhang

This work presents optical calculations and simulations for scintillation detectors used in precision measurements of beta-particle energy spectra. Particular attention is given to Cherenkov photons and the impact of the light detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-10 S. Vanlangendonck , D. Atanasov , B. Blank , X. Fléchard , M. Kanafani , S. Lecanuet , O. Naviliat-Cuncic , N. Severijns , M. Versteegen

We present a theory for wave scintillation in the situation with a time-dependent partially coherent source and a time-dependent randomly heterogeneous medium. Our objective is to understand how the scintillation index of the measured…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

Liquid scintillator detectors are playing an increasingly important role in low-energy neutrino experiments. In this article, we describe a generic energy response model of liquid scintillator detectors that provides energy estimations of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-18 Logan Lebanowski , Linyan Wan , Xiangpan Ji , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen

Interstellar scintillation analysis of pulsars allows us to probe the small-scale distribution and inhomogeneities of the ionized interstellar medium. Our priority is to present the data set and the basic measurements of scintillation…

A complete one-dimensional scattering of a spinless particle on a time-independent potential barrier is considered. To describe separately transmitted and reflected particles in the corresponding subsets of identical experiments, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. L. Chuprikov

Large-volume liquid scintillator detectors with ultra-low background levels have been widely used to study neutrino physics and search for dark matter. Event vertex and event time are not only useful for event selection but also essential…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-14 Ziyuan Li , Yumei Zhang , Guofu Cao , Ziyan Deng , Guihong Huang , Weidong Li , Tao Lin , Liangjian Wen , Miao Yu , Jiaheng Zou , Wuming Luo , Zhengyun You

Signal from scintillation detectors in showers with energies 10**17-10**20eV has been analyzed. It was determined, that for core distances >=200m the time scale of a particle arrival time at the detector constitutes 40-5000ns and longer.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-23 Stanislav Knurenko , Zim Petrov , Yuri Yegorov , Nikolai Dyachkovsky

The directionality information of incoming neutrinos is essential to atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis since it is directly related to the oscillation baseline length. Large homogeneous liquid scintillator detectors, while offering…

Plastic scintillator detectors have been extensively used in particle physics experiments for decades. A large-scale detector is typically arranged as an array of staggered long bars which provide a fast trigger signal and/or particle…

Conceiving the possibility of using plastic scintillator bars as robust detectors for antineutrino detection for the remote reactor monitoring and nuclear safeguard application we study expected basic performance by Monte Carlo simulation.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-20 A. Sh. Georgadze , V. M. Pavlovych , O. A. Ponkratenko , D. A. Litvinov

Using a setup for testing a prototype for a satellite-borne cosmic-ray ion detector, we have operated a stack of scintillator and silicon detectors on top of the Princess Sirindhorn Neutron Monitor (PSNM), an NM64 detector at 2560-m…

The SNO+ Collaboration has recently concluded loading its liquid scintillator with PPO, the primary fluor, and the loading of the wavelength shifter, bisMSB, is ongoing. For each stage of the experiment, reliable position and energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-29 Rafael Hunt-Stokes

A 760 $\times$ 760 $\times$ 30 mm$^3$ plastic scintillation detector viewed by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) from four corners has been developed, and the detector has been tested with cosmic rays and $\gamma$ rays. A position-independent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Shu-wen Tang , Yu-hong Yu , Yong Zhou , Zhi-yu Sun , Xue-heng Zhang , Shi-tao Wang , Ke Yue , Long-xiang Liu , Fang Fang , Duo Yan , Yu Sun , Zhao-min Wang

Wait-time distributions for the $n$th photo-detection at a detector illuminated by a stationary light beam are studied. Both unconditional measurements, initiated at an arbitrary instant, and conditional measurements, initiated upon a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Luis Felipe Morales Bultron , Reeta Vyas , Surendra Singh

This report presents the design, characterization, and application of a high-sensitivity optical detection system based on plastic scintillators coupled to Multi-Pixel Photon Counters (MPPCs). The primary objective was to evaluate the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-24 Sahla Manithottathil , Anuj Gupta , Mudit Kumar , Navaneeth Poonthottathil

The response of a position-sensitive Li-glass based scintillation detector to focused beams of 2.5 MeV protons and deuterons has been investigated. The beams were scanned across the detector in 0.5 mm horizontal and vertical steps…

We present simulations of scattering phenomena which are important in pulsar observations, but which are analytically intractable. The simulation code, which has also been used for solar wind and atmospheric scattering problems, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 W. A. Coles , B. J. Rickett , J. J. Gao , G. Hobbs , J. P. W. Verbiest

We measured signals of low amplitudes originating from cosmic rays, using two rectangular-block scintillation detectors at various positions. The signals were analyzed by a slightly modified signal analyzer from project 'MuonLab', designed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-10 Jan Oldenziel

Liquid argon is being employed as a detector medium in neutrino physics and Dark Matter searches. A recent push to expand the applications of scintillation light in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber neutrino detectors has necessitated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-26 D. Garcia-Gamez , P. Green , A. M. Szelc