Instruments, Volume 6, Issue 1

An AGILE (Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tElescope) instrument is being developed at the University of Kansas and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to be launched on board a CubeSat in 2022. The AGILE instrument aims to identify a large variety of io...

The continuous improvement of current gravitational wave detectors (GWDs) and the preparations for next generation GWDs place high demands on their stabilized laser sources. Some of the laser sources need to operate at laser wavelengths between 1.5 $\mathsf{\&}$...

AMS-100 is the next-generation high-energy cosmic-ray experiment in Space. It is designed as a magnetic spectrometer with a geometrical acceptance of 100 m² · sr to be operated for ten years at the Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 2. Its Time-of...

Within the ATTRACT FASTPIX project, a monolithic pixel sensor demonstrator chip has been developed in a modified 180 $\mathrm{n}$$\mathrm{m}$ CMOS imaging process, targeting sub-nanosecond timing measurements for single ionizing particles. It features a small collection e...

We report on the measurements of time resolution for double-sided 3D pixel sensors with a single cell of 50 $\mathsf{\mu }$m $\times$ 50 $\mathsf{\mu }$m and thickness of 285 $\mathsf{\mu }$m, fabricated at IMB-CNM and irradiated with reactor neutrons from 8 $\times {10}^{14}$ 1MeV $n_{eq}$/cm${}^2$...

Data logging and complex algorithm implementations acting on multichannel systems with independent devices require the use of time synchronization. In the case of Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) and Thick-GEM (THGEM) detectors, the biasing potential c...

A very simple Gaussian model is used to illustrate an interesting fitting result: a linear growth of the resolution with the number N of detecting layers. This rule is well beyond the well-known rule proportional to $\sqrt{N}$ for the resolution of the usual...

Additive manufacturing (AM or “3D printing”) has become a powerful tool for the rapid prototyping and manufacturing of complex part geometries. Especially interesting for the world of particle accelerators is the process of the 3D printin...

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The increase in instantaneous luminosity during the high-luminosity phase of the LHC represents a significant challenge for future detectors. A strategy to cope with high-pileup conditions is to add a fourth dimension to the measurements of the hits,...

The search for a novel technology able to detect and reconstruct nuclear and electron recoil events with the energy of a few $\mathrm{keV}$ has become more and more important now that large regions of high-mass dark matter (DM) candidates have been excluded. Mo...

This communication focuses on the technological developments aiming to show the viability of novel welding techniques [...]

The combination of advanced high-power laser technology, new acceleration methods and achievements in undulator development offers the opportunity to build compact, high-brilliance free electron lasers driven by a laser wakefield accelerator. Here, w...

The present work describes a method to determine excitation function curves and, therefore, cross-sections, making use of the irradiation of liquid targets at distinct energies in a biomedical cyclotron. The method relies on the derivative of experim...

Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are n-on-p silicon sensors with an extra doped p-layer below the n-p junction which provides signal amplification. The moderate gain of these sensors, together with the relatively thin active region, provides exce...

Axions, hypothetical particles theorised to solve the strong CP problem, are presently being considered as strong candidates for cold dark matter constituents. The signal power of resonant-based axion detectors, known as haloscopes, is directly propo...