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Instruments, Volume 6, Issue 1

March 2022 - 16 articles

Cover Story: The search for a novel technology for the detection and study of recoil events with the energy of a few keV has become more and more important now that large regions of high-mass dark matter (DM) candidates have been excluded. Moreover, a detector sensitive to the direction of incoming particles will open the possibility of studying DM properties in the case of its discovery. The CYGNO experiment is developing optically readout gaseous time projection chambers (TPC) to exploit the high sensitivity and granularity of the latest-generation active pixel CMOS sensors for the study of rare events as interactions of DM or solar neutrinos. A one cubic meter demonstrator is being installed underground at Gran Sasso Laboratory in 2022/2023, aiming at a larger scale apparatus (30 m3–100 m3) at a later stage. View this paper
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Articles (16)

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  • Open Access
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9 Pages

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...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,971 Views
17 Pages

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 &...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,660 Views
14 Pages

The Development of SiPM-Based Fast Time-of-Flight Detector for the AMS-100 Experiment in Space

  • Chanhoon Chung,
  • Theresa Backes,
  • Clemens Dittmar,
  • Waclaw Karpinski,
  • Thomas Kirn,
  • Daniel Louis,
  • Georg Schwering,
  • Michael Wlochal and
  • Stefan Schael

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...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,890 Views
12 Pages

Performance of the FASTPIX Sub-Nanosecond CMOS Pixel Sensor Demonstrator

  • Justus Braach,
  • Eric Buschmann,
  • Dominik Dannheim,
  • Katharina Dort,
  • Thanushan Kugathasan,
  • Magdalena Munker,
  • Walter Snoeys and
  • Mateus Vicente

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

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,585 Views
9 Pages

Time Resolution of an Irradiated 3D Silicon Pixel Detector

  • Christopher Betancourt,
  • Dario De Simone,
  • Gregor Kramberger,
  • Maria Manna,
  • Giulio Pellegrini and
  • Nicola Serra

We report on the measurements of time resolution for double-sided 3D pixel sensors with a single cell of 50 μm × 50 μm and thickness of 285 μm, fabricated at IMB-CNM and irradiated with reactor neutrons from 8 ×1014 1MeV neq/cm2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,134 Views
10 Pages

Multichannel Time Synchronization Based on PTP through a High Voltage Isolation Buffer Network Interface for Thick-GEM Detectors

  • Luis Guillermo García Ordóñez,
  • Maria Liz Crespo,
  • Sergio Carrato,
  • Andres Cicuttin,
  • Werner Oswaldo Florian Samayoa,
  • Daniele D’Ago and
  • Stefano Levorato

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,084 Views
12 Pages

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 N for the resolution of the usual...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,667 Views
8 Pages

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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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,502 Views
11 Pages

Development of an MCP-Based Timing Layer for the LHCb ECAL Upgrade-2

  • Stefano Perazzini,
  • Fabio Ferrari,
  • Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni and
  • on behalf of the LHCb ECAL Upgrade-2 R&D Group

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,...

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