仪器与探测器
The TRIUMF Ultracold Advanced Neutron (TUCAN) collaboration has commissioned a large magnetically shielded room to be used for measuring the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) to a precision of $10^{-27}~e\mathrm{cm}$. The room is…
A gas-driven permeation (GDP) platform, SHIELD (Salt-compatible Hydrogen barrier Investigation and EvaLuation for fusion Devices), has been developed to measure hydrogen transport properties in structural materials under controlled thermal…
Material radioactivity compilations, such as the one presented here, are important enablers of science. They are useful for the selection of radiopure materials used in the design and construction of low-energy rare-event search…
Ultrafast electron diffraction and phonon-diffuse scattering (UED(S)) experiments make use of photo-induced changes to electron scattering intensity across 2D detectors to report on a very wide range of dynamic structural phenomena in…
In this work, we present a conditional denoising-diffusion surrogate for electromagnetic calorimeter showers that is trained to generate high-fidelity energy-deposition maps conditioned on key detector and beam parameters. The model employs…
We present a tracker gas flow quality control method developed for the Mu2e straw tube tracker. Using time-dependent current measurements, we quantify the onset time of ionization gain induced by an 55Fe source during gas exchange, which is…
The Columbia Stellarator eXperiment (CSX) is an upgrade of the Columbia Non-neutral Torus (CNT) that aims to demonstrate a university-scale, quasi-axisymmetric stellarator using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) technology at an…
As superconducting kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) continue to grow in popularity for sensitive submillimeter detection and other applications, there is a drive to advance toward lower-loss devices. We present measurements of diagnostic…
The INTENTAS project aims to develop an atomic sensor utilizing entangled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a microgravity environment. This key achievement is necessary to advance the capability for measurements that benefit from both…
The MCORD detector is a modular scintillator-based system employing silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and FPGA-based digital signal processing, designed for applications such as cosmic muon detection, veto systems, and detector calibration…
Achieving tritium self-sufficiency is a critical challenge for future fusion power plants. The BABY 1L experiment, part of the LIBRA project at MIT, aims to benchmark tritium breeding and release in molten salt breeder systems under…
This study establishes a methanol-mediated room-temperature synthesis approach for tellurium-diol (Te-diol) compounds for use in tellurium-loaded liquid scintillator (Te-LS). The synthesis involves the direct reaction of telluric acid with…
Muon scattering tomography is a non-destructive imaging technique that utilizes the penetrating properties and multiple Coulomb scattering of muons to produce detailed internal images of objects. This information is crucial for various…
We report on a new measurement of the energy resolution that can be attained in liquid xenon when recording only the scintillation light. Our setup is optimized to maximize light collection, and uses state-of-the-art, high-PDE,…
Wavelength shifting (WLS) fibers are widely used in particle physics for light collection from scintillators. Light production by charged particles directly in WLS fibers is traditionally ignored. In this study, light produced by charged…
JUNO is designed to determine the neutrino mass ordering with an energy resolution of 3% at 1 MeV. In the real detector, however, deformations of the central stainless-steel structure during installation lead to deviations of the…
Low-noise detectors are a key technology for the next generation of astronomical instruments aimed at spectroscopy of faint objects and the search for exoplanets. In this context, the multiple-amplifier sensing charge-coupled device…
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) has revolutionized our atomic scale understanding of surfaces and accelerated progress in nanotechnology. This technique, however, is restricted to metal or semiconducting samples, as it requires a tiny…
The RELICS (REactor neutrino LIquid xenon Coherent elastic Scattering) experiment employs a dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber to search for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) induced by reactor neutrinos.…
We present the application of Parnassus, a generative model for full detector simulation and reconstruction, to the ALEPH detector at the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP). Training on simulated $e^+e^-$ to Z to qqbar events processed…