The New Small Wheel electronics

Autor: Iakovidis, G., Levinson, L., Afik, Y., Alexa, C., Alexopoulos, T., Ameel, J., Amidei, D., Antrim, D., Badea, A., Bakalis, C., Boterenbrood, H., Brener, R. S., Chan, S., Chapman, J., Chatzianastasiou, G., Chen, H., Chu, M. C., Coliban, R. M., de Paiva, T. Costa, de Geronimo, G., Edgar, R., Felt, N., Francescato, S., Franklin, M., Geralis, T., Gigliotti, K., Giromini, P., Gkountoumis, P., Grayzman, I., Guan, L., da Costa, J. Guimaraes, Han, L., Hou, S., Hu, X., Hu, K., Huth, J., Ivanovici, M., Jin, G., Johns, K., Kajomovitz, E., Kehris, G., Kiskiras, I., Koulouris, A., Kyriakis, E., Lankford, A., Lee, L., Leung, H., Li, F., Liang, Y., Lu, H., Lupu, N., Martinez, V., Martoiu, S., Matakias, D., Mehalev, I., Mesolongitis, I., Miao, P., Mikenberg, G., Moleri, L., Moschovakos, P., Narevicius, J., Oliver, J., Pietreanu, D., Pinkham, R., Politis, E., Polychronakos, V., Popa, S., Prapa, M. M., Ravinovich, I., Roich, A., Caballero, R. A. Rojas, Rozen, Y., Schernau, M., Schwartz, T., Scott, G., Shaked, O., Solis, M., Sun, S., Taffard, A., Tang, S., Tarem, Z., Tse, W., Tu, Y., Tuna, A., Tzanis, P., Tzanos, S., Vari, R., Vasile, M., Vdovin, A., Vermeulen, J., Wang, J., Wang, X., Wang, A., Wang, R., Xiao, X., Yao, L., Yildiz, C., Zachariadou, K., Zhou, B., Zhu, J., Zimmermann, S. U., Zormpa, O.

Publikováno v: JINST 18 P05012 (2023)

The increase in luminosity, and consequent higher backgrounds, of the LHC upgrades require improved rejection of fake tracks in the forward region of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer. The New Small Wheel upgrade of the Muon Spectrometer aims to reduce the

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12571

XL-Calibur -- a second-generation balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission

Autor: Abarr, Q., Awaki, H., Baring, M. G., Bose, R., De Geronimo, G., Dowkontt, P., Errando, M., Guarino, V., Hattori, K., Hayashida, K., Imazato, F., Ishida, M., Iyer, N. K., Kislat, F., Kiss, M., Kitaguchi, T., Krawczynski, H., Lisalda, L., Matake, H., Maeda, Y., Matsumoto, H., Mineta, T., Miyazawa, T., Mizuno, T., Okajima, T., Pearce, M., Rauch, B. F., Ryde, F., Shreves, C., Spooner, S., Stana, T. -A., Takahashi, H., Takeo, M., Tamagawa, T., Tamura, K., Tsunemi, H., Uchida, N., Uchida, Y., West, A. T., Wulf, E. A., Yamamoto, R.

XL-Calibur is a hard X-ray (15-80 keV) polarimetry mission operating from a stabilised balloon-borne platform in the stratosphere. It builds on heritage from the X-Calibur mission, which observed the accreting neutron star GX 301-2 from Antarctica, b

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10608

Design and performance of a 35-ton liquid argon time projection chamber as a prototype for future very large detectors

Autor: Adams, D. L., Baird, M., Barr, G., Barros, N., Blake, A., Blaufuss, E., Booth, A., Brailsford, D., Buchanan, N., Carls, B., Chen, H., Convery, M., De Geronimo, G., Dealtry, T., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Fowler, J., Glavin, S., Gomes, R. A., Goodman, M. C., Graham, M., Greenler, L., Hahn, A., Hartnell, J., Herbst, R., Higuera, A., Himmel, A., Insler, J., Jacobsen, J., Junk, T., Kirby, B., Klein, J., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Kutter, T., Li, Y., Li, X., Lin, S., McConkey, N., Moura, C. A., Mufson, S., Nambiar, N., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Paulos, R., Qian, X., Rodrigues, O., Sands, W., Santucci, G., Sharma, R., Sinev, G., Spooner, N. J. C., Stancu, I., Stefan, D., Stewart, J., Stock, J., Strauss, T., Sulej, R., Sun, Y., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L. F., Tsai, Y. T., Van Berg, R., Vieira, T., Wallbank, M., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Warburton, T. K., Wenman, D., Whittington, D., Wilson, R. J., Worcester, M., Yang, T., Yu, B., Zhang, C.

Liquid argon time projection chamber technology is an attractive choice for large neutrino detectors, as it provides a high-resolution active target and it is expected to be scalable to very large masses. Consequently, it has been chosen as the techn

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08739

The NUMEN project: NUclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless double beta decay

Autor: Cappuzzello, F., Agodi, C., Cavallaro, M., Carbone, D., Tudisco, S., Presti, D. Lo, Oliveira, J. R. B., Finocchiaro, P., Colonna, M., Rifuggiato, D., Calabretta, L., Calvo, D., Pandola, L., Acosta, L., Auerbach, N., Bellone, J., Bijker, R., Bonanno, D., Bongiovanni, D., Borello-Lewin, T., Boztosun, I., Brunasso, O., Burrello, S., Calabrese, S., Calanna, A., Lomelí, E. R. Chávez, D'Agostino, G., De Faria, P. N., De Geronimo, G., Delaunay, F., Deshmukh, N., Ferreira, J. L., Fisichella, M., Foti, A., Gallo, G., Garcia, H., Greco, V., Hacisalihoglu, A., Iazzi, F., Introzzi, R., Lanzalone, G., Lay, J. A., La Via, F., Lenske, H., Linares, R., Litrico, G., Longhitano, F., Lubian, J., Medina, N. H., Mendes, D. R., Moralles, M., Muoio, A., Pakou, A., Petrascu, H., Pinna, F., Reito, S., Russo, A. D., Russo, G., Santagati, G., Santopinto, E., Santos, R. B. B., Sgouros, O., da Silveira, M. A. G., Solakci, S. O., Souliotis, G., Soukeras, V., Spatafora, A., Torresi, D., Vsevolodovna, R. Magana, Zagatto, V. A. B., Yildirin, A.

The article describes the main achievements of the NUMEN project together with an updated and detailed overview of the related R&D activities and theoretical developments. NUMEN proposes an innovative technique to access the nuclear matrix elements e

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08693

Noise Characterization and Filtering in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

Autor: MicroBooNE collaboration, Acciarri, R., Adams, C., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Auger, M., Bagby, L., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Bullard, B., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Carls, B., Fernandez, R. Castillo, Cavanna, F., Chen, H., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cohen, E., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., De Geronimo, G., Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Sanchez, L. Escudero, Esquivel, J., Fadeeva, A. A., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Garvey, G. T., Genty, V., Goeldi, D., Gollapinni, S., Graf, N., Gramellini, E., Greenlee, H., Grosso, R., Guenette, R., Hackenburg, A., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Hewes, V, Hill, C., Ho, J., Horton-Smith, G., Hourlier, A., Huang, E. -C., James, C., de Vries, J. Jan, Jen, C. -M., Jiang, L., Johnson, R. A., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Kaleko, D., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Laube, A., Li, S., Li, Y., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R., Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Mariani, C., Marshall, J., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Meddage, V., Miceli, T., Mills, G. B., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Rescia, S., Rochester, L., von Rohr, C. Rudolf, Russell, B., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Terao, K., Thomson, M., Thorn, C., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tufanli, S., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Van de Water, R. G., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Woodruff, K., Yang, T., Yates, L., Yu, B., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C.

Publikováno v: JINST 12 P08003 (2017)

The low-noise operation of readout electronics in a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is critical to properly extract the distribution of ionization charge deposited on the wire planes of the TPC, especially for the induction planes. This

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07341