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We present the prototype of a time-to-digital (TDC) ASIC for the upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector for high-luminosity LHC operation. This ASIC is based on a previously submitted demonstrator ASIC designed for timing…

Significant progress has been made to develop silicon pixel technologies for use in the vertex and tracker regions of the proposed Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) detector design. The electron-positron collisions generated by this linear…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Morag Williams

With the development of the circular collider, it is necessary to make accurate physics experimental measurements of particle properties at higher luminosity $Z$ pole. Micro-pattern gaseous detectors (MPGDs), which contain Gaseous Electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-22 Zhiyang Yuan , Huirong Qi , Yue Chang , Ye Wu , Hongyu Zhang , Jian Zhang , Yuanbo Chen , Yiming Cai , Yulan Li , Zhi Deng , Hui Gong

The Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) is a gaseous detector; the performance depends very much on the gas mixture as well as the design. MRPCs are used as a timing device in several collider experiments and cosmic ray experiments…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-27 Yongwook Baek , Dowon Kim , M. C. S. Williams

During the scheduled high luminosity upgrade of LHC, the world's largest particle physics accelerator at CERN, the position sensitive silicon detectors installed in the vertex and tracking part of the CMS experiment will face more intense…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-21 T. Peltola

The multilevel trigger system of the DIRAC experiment at CERN is presented. It includes a fast first level trigger as well as various trigger processors to select events with a pair of pions having a low relative momentum typical of the…

A new kind of Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) has been built for the large-area Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) for the STAR experiment at RHIC. These long read-out strip MRPCs (LMRPCs) have an active area of 87.0 x 17.0 cm2 and ten…

For the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider (LHC), large drift chambers consisting of 6 to 8 layers of pressurized drift tubes are used for precision tracking covering an active area of 5000 m2 in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-04 M. Deile , H. Dietl , J. Dubbert , S. Horvat , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , A. Manz , S. Mohrdieck , F. Rauscher , R. Richter , A. Staude

New front-end electronics including ASICs and FPGA boards are under development for the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector to handle the large data rates and harsh environment expected at high-luminosity LHC runs. A mobile Data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-23 Yuxiang Guo , Xueye Hu , Thomas Schwarz , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu

In this paper, the design and the performance of a prototype detector based on MicroMegas technology with two detection planes in a common gas volume is discussed. The detector is suited for the forward region of LHC detectors, addressing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Bernard Brickwedde , Andreas Düdder , Matthias Schott , Eda Yildirim

This article presents the MEG II Cylindrical Drift CHamber (CDCH), a key detector for the phase 2 of MEG, which aims at reaching a sensitivity level of the order of $6 \times 10^{-14}$ for the charged Lepton Flavour Violating $\mu^+…

A prototype of a single-gap glass Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is constructed by the authors. To find the considerations required for better operation of the detector's gas system, we have simulated the flow of the Ar gas through the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-30 Yousef Pezeshkian , Amir Kiyoumarsioskouei , Majid Ahmadpouri , Ghasem Ghorbani

To investigate fractoluminescence in scintillating crystals used for particle detection, we have developed a multi-channel setup built around samples of double-cleavage drilled compression (DCDC) geometry in a controllable atmosphere. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-23 A. Tantot , C. Bouard , R. Briche , G. Lefèvre , B. Manier , N. Zaïm , S. Deschanel , L. Vanel , P. C. F. Di Stefano

The cylindrical drift chamber is the most innovative part of the MEG~II detector, the upgraded version of the MEG experiment. The MEG~II chamber differs from the MEG one because it is a single volume cylindrical structure, instead of a…

A new combined PIC-MCC approach is developed for accurate and fast simulation of a radio frequency discharge at low gas pressure and high density of plasma. Test calculations of transition between different modes of electron heating in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 I. V. Schweigert , V. A. Schweigert

The MAPS technology is considered as a possible choice for the ILC Vertex Detector. Test results of MIMOSA-5 sensors indicate that the pixel multiplicity and the single point resolution depend significantly on the incident particle angle.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-19 L. Maczewski , P. Niezurawski , A. F. Zarnecki , M. Adamus , J. Ciborowski

A novel gaseous two-dimensional imaging detector "Micro Pixel Chamber (micro-PIC)" has been developed. This detector is based on double sided printed circuit board (PCB). We have developed large area (10cm x 10cm) micro-PICs with 65536…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Nagayoshi , H. Kubo , K. Miuchi , A. Ochi , R. Orito , A. Takada , T. Tanimori , M. Ueno

Detecting the topology and direction of low-energy nuclear and electronic recoils is broadly desirable in nuclear and particle physics, with applications in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, astrophysical neutrino measurements,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-31 Majd Ghrear , Alasdair G. McLean , Hima B. Korandla , Ferdos Dastgiri , Neil J. C. Spooner , Sven E. Vahsen

The Multipurpose Detector (MPD) \cite{cite1.MPD_CDR} is designed to study of hot and dense baryonic matter in collisions of heavy ions over the atomic mass range 1--197 at the centre of mass energy up to $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$ = 11 GeV (for…

A low pressure time projection chamber for the detection of WIMPs is discussed. Discrimination against Compton electron background in such a device should be very good, and directional information about the recoil atoms would be obtainable.…