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Special Issue "Feature Papers in Instruments 2021"

A special issue of Instruments (ISSN 2410-390X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Antonio Ereditato
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1. Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
2. Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse, 5 CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: experimental particle physics; neutrino physics; astroparticle physics; particle detectors
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Prof. Dr. Pasquale Arpaia
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1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio, 21, 80125 Napoli NA, Italy
2. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland
Interests: instrumentation and measurement for magnets; advanced materials; beam; superconductors; power converters; and cryogenics of particle accelerators; biomedical instrumentation; augmented reality; brain–computer interfaces; evolutionary diagnostics; distributed measurement systems; analog-to-digital converter (ADC) modeling and testing
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a new Instruments Special Issue aiming to provide a broad overview of the state of the art in the field. This issue will collect high-quality papers (original research articles or comprehensive review papers) in the research topics of Instruments. Highly experienced practitioners from various fields within the journal’s scope are encouraged to contribute papers highlighting the latest, groundbreaking developments in their research areas.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Ereditato
Prof. Dr. Pasquale Arpaia
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Instruments is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • instruments
  • particle accelerators and detectors
  • tracking detector
  • beams
  • scintillator
  • transducer

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An Active Plasma Beam Dump for EuPRAXIA Beams
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Alexandre Bonatto
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Roger Pizzato Nunes
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Bruno Silveira Nunes
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Sanjeev Kumar
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Linbo Liang
and
Guoxing Xia
Instruments 2021, 5(3), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments5030024 - 05 Jul 2021
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Plasma wakefields driven by high power lasers or relativistic particle beams can be orders of magnitude larger than the fields produced in conventional accelerating structures. Since the plasma wakefield is composed not only of accelerating but also of decelerating phases, this paper proposes [...] Read more.
Plasma wakefields driven by high power lasers or relativistic particle beams can be orders of magnitude larger than the fields produced in conventional accelerating structures. Since the plasma wakefield is composed not only of accelerating but also of decelerating phases, this paper proposes to utilize the strong decelerating field induced by a laser pulse in the plasma to absorb the beam energy, in a scheme known as the active plasma beam dump. The design of this active plasma beam dump has considered the beam output by the EuPRAXIA facility. Analytical estimates were obtained, and compared with particle-in-cell simulations. The obtained results indicate that this active plasma beam dump can contribute for more compact, safer, and greener accelerators in the near future. Full article
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Single-Photon Detection Module Based on Large-Area Silicon Photomultipliers for Time-Domain Diffuse Optics
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Fabio Acerbi
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Anurag Behera
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Alberto Dalla Mora
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Laura Di Sieno
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Alberto Gola
Instruments 2021, 5(2), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments5020018 - 19 May 2021
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Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are pixelated single-photon detectors combining high sensitivity, good time resolution and high dynamic range. They are emerging in many fields, such as time-domain diffuse optics (TD-DO). This is a promising technique in neurology, oncology, and quality assessment of food, wood, [...] Read more.
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are pixelated single-photon detectors combining high sensitivity, good time resolution and high dynamic range. They are emerging in many fields, such as time-domain diffuse optics (TD-DO). This is a promising technique in neurology, oncology, and quality assessment of food, wood, and pharmaceuticals. SiPMs can have very large areas and can significantly increase the sensitivity of TD-DO in tissue investigation. However, such improvement is currently limited by the high detector noise and the worsening of SiPM single-photon time resolution due to the large parasitic capacitances. To overcome such limitation, in this paper, we present two single-photon detection modules, based on 6 × 6 mm2 and 10 × 10 mm2 SiPMs, housed in vacuum-sealed TO packages, cooled to −15 °C and −36 °C, respectively. They integrate front-end amplifiers and temperature controllers, being very useful instruments for TD-DO and other biological and physical applications. The signal extraction from the SiPM was improved. The noise is reduced by more than two orders of magnitude compared to the room temperature level. The full suitability of the proposed detectors for TD-DO measurements is outside the scope of this work, but preliminary tests were performed analyzing the shape and the stability of the Instrument Response Function. The proposed modules are thus fundamental building blocks to push the TD-DO towards deeper investigations inside the body. Full article
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