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Cosmic-Ray Tomography for Border Security

  • Sarah Barnes,
  • Anzori Georgadze,
  • Andrea Giammanco,
  • Madis Kiisk,
  • Vitaly A. Kudryavtsev,
  • Maxime Lagrange and
  • Olin Lyod Pinto

A key task for customs workers is the interception of hazardous, illegal and counterfeit items in order to protect the health and safety of citizens. However, it is estimated that only a small fraction of cargo is inspected and an even smaller fracti...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,804 Views
20 Pages

Low-Cost Hyperspectral Imaging Device for Portable Remote Sensing

  • Eleftheria Maria Pechlivani,
  • Athanasios Papadimitriou,
  • Sotirios Pemas,
  • Nikolaos Giakoumoglou and
  • Dimitrios Tzovaras

Hyperspectral imaging has revolutionized various scientific fields by enabling a detailed analysis of objects and materials based on their spectral signatures. However, the high cost and complexity of commercial hyperspectral camera systems limit the...

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9 Citations
2,423 Views
9 Pages

Additive Manufacturing of an IH-Type Linac Structure from Stainless Steel and Pure Copper

  • Hendrik Hähnel,
  • Adem Ateş,
  • Benjamin Dedić and
  • Ulrich Ratzinger

Additive manufacturing (AM) of metals has the potential to provide significant benefits for the construction of future particle accelerators. The combination of low cost manufacturing of complex geometries in combination with efficiency gains from im...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,593 Views
23 Pages

Additive Manufacturing of Side-Coupled Cavity Linac Structures from Pure Copper: A First Concept

  • Michael Mayerhofer,
  • Stefan Brenner,
  • Ricardo Helm,
  • Samira Gruber,
  • Elena Lopez,
  • Lukas Stepien,
  • Gerald Gold and
  • Günther Dollinger

Compared to conventional manufacturing, additive manufacturing (AM) of radio frequency (RF) cavities has the potential to reduce manufacturing costs and complexity and to enable higher performance. This work evaluates whether normal conducting side-c...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,802 Views
11 Pages

Improving Fabrication and Performance of Additively Manufactured RF Cavities by Employing Co-Printed Support Structures and Their Subsequent Removal

  • Michael Mayerhofer,
  • Stefan Brenner,
  • Michael Doppler,
  • Luis Catarino,
  • Stefanie Girst,
  • Vesna Nedeljkovic-Groha and
  • Günther Dollinger

The enormous potential of additive manufacturing (AM), particularly laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), to produce radiofrequency cavities (cavities) has already been demonstrated. However, the required geometrical accuracy for GHz TM010 cavities is cur...

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8 Citations
9,869 Views
65 Pages

Transition Edge Sensors: Physics and Applications

  • Mario De Lucia,
  • Paolo Dal Bo,
  • Eugenia Di Giorgi,
  • Tommaso Lari,
  • Claudio Puglia and
  • Federico Paolucci

Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are amongst the most sensitive cryogenic detectors and can be easily optimized for the detection of massive particles or photons ranging from X-rays all the way down to millimetre radiation. Furthermore, TESs exhibit un...

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7 Citations
2,776 Views
17 Pages

Response of G-NUMEN LaBr3(Ce) Detectors to High Counting Rates

  • Elisa Maria Gandolfo,
  • José Roberto Brandao Oliveira,
  • Luigi Campajola,
  • Dimitra Pierroutsakou,
  • Alfonso Boiano,
  • Clementina Agodi,
  • Francesco Cappuzzello,
  • Diana Carbone,
  • Manuela Cavallaro and
  • Irene Ciraldo
  • + 11 authors

The G-NUMEN array is the future gamma spectrometer of the NUMEN experiment (nuclear matrix element for neutrinoless double beta decay), to be installed around the object point of the MAGNEX magnetic spectrometer at the INFN-LNS laboratory. This proje...

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7 Citations
7,264 Views
21 Pages

In the realm of space exploration, solid rocket motors (SRMs) play a pivotal role due to their reliability and high thrust-to-weight ratio. Serving as boosters in space launch vehicles and employed in military systems, and other critical & emergi...

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6 Citations
3,019 Views
10 Pages

Double Photodiode Readout System for the Calorimeter of the HERD Experiment: Challenges and New Horizons in Technology for the Direct Detection of High-Energy Cosmic Rays

  • Pietro Betti,
  • Oscar Adriani,
  • Matias Antonelli,
  • Yonglin Bai,
  • Xiaohong Bai,
  • Tianwei Bao,
  • Eugenio Berti,
  • Lorenzo Bonechi,
  • Massimo Bongi and
  • Valter Bonvicini
  • + 42 authors

The HERD experiment is a future experiment for the direct detection of high-energy cosmic rays and is to be installed on the Chinese space station in 2027. The main objectives of HERD are the first direct measurement of the knee of the cosmic ray spe...

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6 Citations
4,184 Views
23 Pages

Results and Perspectives of Timepix Detectors in Space—From Radiation Monitoring in Low Earth Orbit to Astroparticle Physics

  • Benedikt Bergmann,
  • Stefan Gohl,
  • Declan Garvey,
  • Jindřich Jelínek and
  • Petr Smolyanskiy

In space application, hybrid pixel detectors of the Timepix family have been considered mainly for the measurement of radiation levels and dosimetry in low earth orbits. Using the example of the Space Application of Timepix Radiation Monitor (SATRAM)...

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