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Dual phase Xenon Time Projection Chambers (XeTPCs) are being used by several experiments as a promising technique for direct detection of dark matter. We report on the design and performance of a small 3-D sensitive dual phase XeTPC. The…

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The WA105-3x1x1 m3 dual phase LAr-TPC demonstrator

The dual phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) is the state-of-art technology for neutrino detection thanks to its superb 3D tracking and calorimetry performance. Its main feature is the charge amplification in gas argon…

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The CASTOR calorimeter at the CMS experiment

The CASTOR Calorimeter at the CMS experiment is an electromagnetic/hadronic calorimeter which covers the very forward region of the detector (-6.6 < eta < -5.2). CASTOR is a Cherenkov sampling calorimeter, consisting of quartz and tungsten…

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Low-Energy Radon Backgrounds from Electrode Grids in Dual-Phase Xenon TPCs

The dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) is a powerful technology to detect rare interactions such as scatters of dark matter particles on nuclei. In particular, the built-in gain of ionization signals in a dual-phase TPC makes it…

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MIMAC : Detection of low energy recoils for Dark Matter search

The MIMAC project is based on a matrix of Micro Time Projection Chambers (micro-TPC) for Dark Matter search, filled with He3 or CF4 and using ionization and tracks. The first measurement of the energy resolution of this micro-TPC is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 A. Trichet , F. Mayet , O. Guillaudin , D. Santos

New Superconducting Toroidal Magnet System for IAXO, the International AXion Observatory

Axions are hypothetical particles that were postulated to solve one of the puzzles arising in the standard model of particle physics, namely the strong CP (Charge conjugation and Parity) problem. The new International AXion Observatory…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-05 I. Shilon , A. Dudarev , H. Silva , U. Wagner , H. H. J. ten Kate

Optical Readout Time Projection Chamber (O-TPC) for a Study of Oxygen Formation In Stellar Helium Burning

We are developing an Optical Readout Time Projection Chamber (O-TPC) detector for the study of the 12C(a,g)16O reaction that determines the ratio of carbon to oxygen in helium burning. This ratio is crucial for understanding the final fate…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Moshe Gai , Amos Breskin , Rachel Chechik , Volker Dangendorf , Henry R. Weller

Dual-Phase Liquid Xenon Detectors for Dark Matter Searches

Dual-phase time projection chambers (TPCs) filled with the liquid noble gas xenon (LXe) are currently the most sensitive detectors searching for interactions of WIMP dark matter in a laboratory-based experiment. This is achieved by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-08 Marc Schumann

Nuclear Recoil Calibration at Sub-keV Energies in LUX and Its Impact on Dark Matter Search Sensitivity

Dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) detectors offer heightened sensitivities for dark matter detection across a spectrum of particle masses. To broaden their capability to low-mass dark matter interactions, we investigated the…

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Performance of the High-Angle Time Projection Chambers in the Upgraded T2K Off-Axis Near Detector

The off-axis magnetic near detector of the T2K experiment has undergone a significant upgrade, including the construction and installation of two new Time Projection Chambers featuring innovative resistive Micromegas technology and a field…

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Study of Negative-Ion TPC Using {\mu}-PIC for Directional Dark Matter Search

Negative-ion time projection chambers(TPCs) have been studied for low-rate and high-resolution applications such as dark matter search experiments. Recently, a full volume fiducialization in a self-triggering TPC was realized. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Tomonori Ikeda , Kentaro Miuchi , Atsuhiko Ochi , Ryota Yakabe , Takashi Hashimoto , Ryosuke Taishaku , Daniel P. Snowden-Ifft , Jean-Luc Gauvreau , Toru Tanimori , Atsushi Takada , Kiseki Nakamura

A Large Area Timing RPC

A large area Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) with a total active surface of 160x10 cm2 was built and tested. The surface was segmented in two 5 cm wide strips readout on both ends with custom, very high frequency, front end electronics. A…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Blanco , R. Ferreira-Marques , Ch. Finck , P. Fonte , A. Gobbi , A. Policarpo , M. Rozas

Study of the d$E$/d$x$ resolution of a GEM Readout Chamber prototype for the upgrade of the ALICE TPC

The ALICE Collaboration is planning a major upgrade of its central barrel detectors to be able to cope with the increased LHC luminosity beyond 2020. For the TPC, this implies a replacement of the currently used gated MWPCs (Multi-Wire…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Andreas Mathis

Influence of Radiation and AC Coupling on Time Performance of Analog Pixels Test Structures in 65 nm CMOS technology

Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) in advanced CMOS imaging technologies are key to next-generation tracking systems for high-energy physics, where radiation hardness and precise vertex reconstruction are essential. As part of the ALICE…

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First results from a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber in a Magnetic Field

A small liquid argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) was operated for the first time in a magnetic field of 0.55 Tesla. The imaging properties of the detector were not affected by the magnetic field. In a test run with cosmic rays a…

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Prospects of solar axion searches with crystal detectors

A calculation of the expected signal due to Primakoff coherent conversion of solar axions into photons via Bragg scattering in several crystal detectors is presented. The results are confronted with the experimental sensitivities of present…

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Texas Active Target (TexAT) detector for experiments with rare isotope beams

The TexAT (Texas Active Target) detector is a new active-target time projection chamber (TPC) that was built at the Cyclotron Institute Texas A$\&$M University. The detector is designed to be of general use for nuclear structure and nuclear…

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First Operation of a Resistive Shell Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber -- A new Approach to Electric-Field Shaping

We present a new technology for the shaping of the electric field in Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) using a carbon-loaded polyimide foil. This technology allows for the minimisation of passive material near the active volume of the TPC and…

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Development of Micromegas-based Time Projection Chamber for Nuclear Astrophysics Studies

A Micromegas-based active-target detector named SAT-TPC (Saha Active Target TPC) has been designed and fabricated at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. The SAT-TPC was tested with Ar-CO2 (90:10) and Ar-iC4H10 (95:5) at atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-22 Pralay Kumar Das , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay

Enhancing Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Sensitivity of Liquid-Xenon Time Projection Chamber with Augmented Convolutional Neural Network

Dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) that employs a multi-ton-scale liquid xenon (LXe) target mass is a pioneering detector technology to search for dark matter. Beyond its advantage in dark matter direct detection efforts, the natural…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-26 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , K. Abe , M. Adrover , S. Ahmed Maouloud , L. Althueser , B. Andrieu , E. Angelino , D. Antón Martin , S. R. Armbruster , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , M. Bazyk , L. Bellagamba , R. Biondi , A. Bismark , K. Boese , R. M. Braun , G. Bruni , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Cai , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , A. P. Cimental Chávez , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. J. Cuenca-García , V. D'Andrea , L. C. Daniel Garcia , M. P. Decowski , A. Deisting , C. Di Donato , P. Di Gangi , S. Diglio , K. Eitel , S. el Morabit , R. Elleboro , A. Elykov , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , H. Fischer , T. Flehmke , M. Flierman , R. Frankel , D. Fuchs , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , R. Gaior , F. Gao , R. Giacomobono , F. Girard , R. Glade-Beucke , L. Grandi , J. Grigat , H. Guan , M. Guida , P. Gyorgy , R. Hammann , A. Higuera , C. Hils , L. Hoetzsch , N. F. Hood , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , J. Jakob , F. Joerg , Y. Kaminaga , M. Kara , S. Kazama , P. Kharbanda , M. Kobayashi , D. Koke , K. Kooshkjalali , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , A. Li , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , Z. Liang , Y. -T. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , K. Liu , M. Liu , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , G. M. Lucchetti , T. Luce , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , S. Mastroianni , V. Mazza , A. Melchiorre , J. Merz , M. Messina , A. Michel , K. Miuchi , A. Molinario , S. Moriyama , K. Morå , M. Murra , J. Müller , K. Ni , C. T. Oba Ishikawa , U. Oberlack , S. Ouahada , B. Paetsch , Y. Pan , Q. Pellegrini , R. Peres , J. Pienaar , M. Pierre , G. Plante , T. R. Pollmann , A. Prajapati , L. Principe , J. Qin , D. Ramírez García , A. Ravindran , A. Razeto , R. Singh , L. Sanchez , J. M. F. dos Santos , I. Sarnoff , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , P. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , F. N. Semler , P. Shagin , S. Shi , H. Simgen , Z. Song , A. Stevens , C. Szyszka , A. Takeda , Y. Takeuchi , P. -L. Tan , D. Thers , G. Trinchero , C. D. Tunnell , K. Valerius , S. Vecchi , S. Vetter , G. Volta , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , V. H. S. Wu , Y. Xing , D. Xu , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , J. Yang , L. Yang , J. Ye , M. Yoshida , L. Yuan , G. Zavattini , Y. Zhao , M. Zhong , T. Zhu