Publications (77)
DigiCam - Fully Digital Compact Read-out and Trigger Electronics for the SST-1M Telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
P. Rajda, K. ZiÄtara, W. Bilnik +48
The SST-1M is one of three prototype small-sized telescope designs proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, and is built by a consortium of Polish and Swiss institutions. The SS…
The Large Area Detector of LOFT: the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing
S. Zane, D. Walton, T. Kennedy +56
LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing) is one of the five candidates that were considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024) and has been studied during an exten…
The simulation chain for the Terzina Cherenkov telescope on board the NUSES space mission
M. Abdullahi, R. Aloisio, F. Arneodo +74
The Terzina telescope is designed to detect ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and Earth-skimming neutrinos from a 550 km low-Earth orbit (LEO) by observing Cherenkov light emi…
The Super Fine-Grained Detector for the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment
S. Abe, H. Alarakia-Charles, I. Alekseev +169
The magnetised near detector ND280 of the long-baseline neutrino experiment T2K has been upgraded to improve its detection performance and, consequently, enhance our understanding…
Instrument Performance and Simulation Verification of the POLAR Detector
M. Kole, Z. H. Li, N. Produit +32
POLAR is a new satellite-born detector aiming to measure the polarization of an unprecedented number of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the 50-500 keV energy range. The instrument, launched on…
Baby MIND: A magnetized segmented neutrino detector for the WAGASCI experiment
M. Antonova, R. Asfandiyarov, R. Bayes +43
T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment in Japan designed to study various parameters of neutrino oscillations. A near detector complex (ND280) is located 280…
Picosecond Avalanche Detector -- working principle and gain measurement with a proof-of-concept prototype
L. Paolozzi, M. Munker, R. Cardella +24
The Picosecond Avalanche Detector is a multi-junction silicon pixel detector based on a structure, devised to enable charged-particle tracking wi…
Mono and stereo performance of the two SST-1M telescope prototypes
J. Jurysek, T. Tavernier, V. Novotný +51
The Single-Mirror Small-Sized Telescope, or SST-1M, was originally developed as a prototype of a small-sized telescope for CTA, designed to form an array for observations of gamma-…
Development and science perspectives of the POLAR-2 instrument: a large scale GRB polarimeter
N. De Angelis, J. M. Burgess, F. Cadoux +14
Despite several decades of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger spectral observations, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) remain one of the big mysteries of modern astrophysics. Polarization…
Efficiency and time resolution of monolithic silicon pixel detectors in SiGe BiCMOS technology
G. Iacobucci, L. Paolozzi, P. Valerio +20
A monolithic silicon pixel detector prototype has been produced in the SiGe BiCMOS SG13G2 130 nm node technology by IHP. The ASIC contains a matrix of hexagonal pixels with pitch o…
Performance of the SST-1M telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory
R. Moderski, W. Bilnik, J. BÅocki +51
The single mirror small-size telescope (SST-1M) is one of the telescope projects being proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory by a sub-consortium of Polish and Swis…
The Single Mirror Small Sized Telescope For The Cherenkov Telescope Array
M. Heller, E. jr Schioppa, A. Porcelli +46
The Small Size Telescope with Single Mirror (SST-1M) is one of the proposed types of Small Size Telescopes (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). About 70 SST telescopes wi…
The design and construction of the MICE Electron-Muon Ranger
R. Asfandiyarov, P. Bene, A. Blondel +18
The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a fully-active tracking-calorimeter installed in the beam line of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE). The experiment will demonstrate i…
Performance of a small size telescope (SST-1M) camera for gamma-ray astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
I. Al Samarai, C. Alispach, F. Cadoux +36
The foreseen implementations of the Small Size Telescopes (SST) in CTA will provide unique insights into the highest energy gamma rays offering fundamental means to discover and un…
Penetrating particle ANalyzer (PAN)
X. Wu, G. Ambrosi, P. Azzarello +18
PAN is a scientific instrument suitable for deep space and interplanetary missions. It can precisely measure and monitor the flux, composition, and direction of highly penetrating…
Testbeam results of irradiated SiGe BiCMOS monolithic silicon pixel detector without internal gain layer
T. Moretti, M. Milanesio, R. Cardella +27
Samples of the monolithic silicon pixel ASIC prototype produced in 2022 within the framework of the Horizon 2020 MONOLITH ERC Advanced project were irradiated with 70 MeV protons u…
Radiation Tolerance of SiGe BiCMOS Monolithic Silicon Pixel Detectors without Internal Gain Layer
M. Milanesio, L. Paolozzi, T. Moretti +27
A monolithic silicon pixel prototype produced for the MONOLITH ERC Advanced project was irradiated with 70 MeV protons up to a fluence of 1 x 10^16 1 MeV n_eq/cm^2. The ASIC contai…
LBNO-DEMO: Large-scale neutrino detector demonstrators for phased performance assessment in view of a long-baseline oscillation experiment
L. Agostino, B. Andrieu, R. Asfandiyarov +111
In June 2012, an Expression of Interest for a long-baseline experiment (LBNO) has been submitted to the CERN SPSC. LBNO considers three types of neutrino detector technologies: a d…
A 4pi time-of-flight detector for the ND280/T2K upgrade
A. Korzenev, F. Barao, S. Bordoni +11
ND280 is a near detector of the T2K experiment which is located in the J-PARC accelerator complex in Japan. After a decade of fruitful data-taking, ND280 is scheduled for upgrade.…
Electron-Muon Ranger: performance in the MICE Muon Beam
D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +151
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requ…
nuSTORM - Neutrinos from STORed Muons: Proposal to the Fermilab PAC
D. Adey, S. K. Agarwalla, C. M. Ankenbrandt +110
The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron neutrinos and muon neutrinos (and their anti-particles) from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central mome…
Technical design of the phase I Mu3e experiment
K. Arndt, H. Augustin, P. Baesso +102
The Mu3e experiment aims to find or exclude the lepton flavour violating decay at branching fractions above . A first phase of the experiment using an…
Introducing a Markov Chain-Based Time Calibration Procedure for Multi-Channel Particle Detectors: Application to the SuperFGD and ToF Detectors of the T2K Experiment
S. Abe, H. Alarakia-Charles, I. Alekseev +190
Inter-channel mis-synchronisation can be a limiting factor to the time resolution of high performance timing detectors with multiple readout channels and independent electronics un…
Baby MIND Experiment Construction Status
M. Antonova, R. Asfandiyarov, R Bayes +43
Baby MIND is a magnetized iron neutrino detector, with novel design features, and is planned to serve as a downstream magnetized muon spectrometer for the WAGASCI experiment on the…
Optimisation of the design for the LOFT Large Area Detector Module
D. Walton, B. Winter, S. Zane +25
LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing) is an X-ray timing observatory that, with four other candidates, was considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024) and has…
Baby MIND: A magnetised spectrometer for the WAGASCI experiment
M. Antonova, R. Asfandiyarov, R Bayes +43
The WAGASCI experiment being built at the J-PARC neutrino beam line will measure the difference in cross sections from neutrinos interacting with a water and scintillator targets,…
Prototype of the SST-1M Telescope Structure for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
J. Niemiec, W. Bilnik, J. BÅocki +49
A single-mirror small-size (SST-1M) Davies-Cotton telescope with a dish diameter of 4 m has been built by a consortium of Polish and Swiss institutions as a prototype for one of th…
Measurement of muon neutrino induced charged current interactions without charged pions in the final state using a new T2K off-axis near detector WAGASCI-BabyMIND
K. Abe, S. Abe, R. Akutsu +398
We report a flux-integrated cross section measurement of muon neutrino interactions on water and hydrocarbon via charged current reactions without charged pions in the final state…
Development of the optical system for the SST-1M telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory
K. Seweryn, W. Bilnik, J. BÅocki +58
The prototype of a Davies-Cotton small size telescope (SST-1M) has been designed and developed by a consortium of Polish and Swiss institutions and proposed for the Cherenkov Teles…
POLAR-2: a large scale gamma-ray polarimeter for GRBs
J. Hulsman, N. de Angelis, J. M. Burgess +14
The prompt emission of GRBs has been investigated for more than 50 years but remains poorly understood. Commonly, spectral and temporal profiles of γ-ray emission are analysed. Ho…
The effect of the displacement damage on the Charge Collection Efficiency in Silicon Drift Detectors for the LOFT satellite
E. Del Monte, Y. Evangelista, E. Bozzo +7
The technology of Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs) has been selected for the two instruments aboard the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT) space mission. LOFT underwent a thre…
Gamma-Ray Polarization Results of the POLAR Mission and Future Prospects
M. Kole, N. de Angelis, J. M. Burgess +14
Despite over 50 years of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) observations many open questions remain about their nature and the environments in which the emission takes place. Polarization measu…
4 m Davies-Cotton telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
R. Moderski, J. A. Aguilar, A. Barnacka +39
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high energy gamma-ray observatory. It will consist of three classes of telescopes, of large, medium and small sizes.…
20 ps Time Resolution with a Fully-Efficient Monolithic Silicon Pixel Detector without Internal Gain Layer
S. Zambito, M. Milanesio, T. Moretti +25
A second monolithic silicon pixel prototype was produced for the MONOLITH project. The ASIC contains a matrix of hexagonal pixels with 100 μm pitch, readout by a low-noise and ver…
Results from the T2K experiment on neutrino mixing including a new far detector -like sample
The T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, S. Abe +404
We have made improved measurements of three-flavor neutrino mixing with 19.7(16.3) protons on target in (anti-)neutrino-enhanced beam modes. A new sample of muon-ne…
SuperFGD prototype time resolution studies
I. Alekseev, T. Arihara, V. Baranov +87
The SuperFGD will be a part of the ND280 near detector of the T2K and Hyper Kamiokande projects, that will help to reduce systematic uncertainties related with neutrino flux and cr…
T2K ND280 Upgrade -- Technical Design Report
K. Abe, H. Aihara, A. Ajmi +380
In this document, we present the Technical Design Report of the Upgrade of the T2K Near Detector ND280. The goal of this upgrade is to improve the Near Detector performance to meas…
Production and Integration of the ATLAS Insertable B-Layer
B. Abbott, J. Albert, F. Alberti +373
During the shutdown of the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2013-2014, an additional pixel layer was installed between the existing Pixel detector of the ATLAS experiment and a new, s…
A fully active fine grained detector with three readout views
A. Blondel, F. Cadoux, S. Fedotov +13
This paper describes a novel idea of a fine-grained fully-active plastic scintillator detector made of many optically independent cubes with readout o…
In-flight performance of the DAMPE silicon tracker
A. Tykhonov, G. Ambrosi, R. Asfandiyarov +39
DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) is a spaceborne high-energy cosmic ray and gamma-ray detector, successfully launched in December 2015. It is designed to probe astroparticle p…
Camera calibration strategy of the SST-1M prototype of the Cherenokov Telescope Array
E. Prandini, M. Heller, E. Lyard +48
The SST-1M telescope is one of the prototypes under construction proposed to be part of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array. It uses a standard Davis-Cotton design for the optics…
FACT - The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope: Status and Results
T. Bretz, H. Anderhub, M. Backes +51
The First G-APD Cherenkov telescope (FACT) is the first telescope using silicon photon detectors (G-APD aka. SiPM). It is built on the mount of the HEGRA CT3 telescope, still locat…
Analysis of commissioning data from SST-1M : A Prototype of Single-Mirror Small Size Telescope
Thomas Tavernier, Jakub Jurysek, Vladimir Novotný +52
SST-1M is a prototype of a single-mirror Small Size Telescope developed by a consortium of institutes from Poland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. With a wide field of view of…
Signal selection and model-independent extraction of the neutrino neutral-current single cross section with the T2K experiment
K. Abe, S. Abe, R. Akutsu +378
This article presents a study of single production in neutrino neutral-current interactions (NC1) using the FGD1 hydrocarbon target of the ND280 detector of the T2K ex…
Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments
NOvA, T2K Collaborations, : +597
The landmark discovery that neutrinos have mass and can change type (or "flavor") as they propagate -- a process called neutrino oscillation -- has opened up a rich array of theore…
The SST-1M camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
E. J. Schioppa, F. Cadoux, A. Christov +48
The prototype camera of the single-mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST-1M) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project has been designed to be very compact and to delive…
Testbeam Characterization of a SiGe BiCMOS Monolithic Silicon Pixel Detector with Internal Gain Layer
L. Paolozzi, M. Milanesio, T. Moretti +22
A monolithic silicon pixel ASIC prototype, produced in 2024 as part of the Horizon 2020 MONOLITH ERC Advanced project, was tested with a 120 GeV/c pion beam. The ASIC features a ma…
Design and Operation of FACT -- The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope
H. Anderhub, M. Backes, A. Biland +51
The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) is designed to detect cosmic gamma-rays with energies from several hundred GeV up to about 10 TeV using the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov…
Observation of the Crab Nebula with the Single-Mirror Small-Size Telescope stereoscopic system at low altitude
C. Alispach, A. Araudo, M. Balbo +63
The Single-Mirror Small-Size Telescope (SST-1M) stereoscopic system is composed of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) designed for optimal performance for gamma-r…
First differential measurement of the single production cross section in neutrino neutral-current scattering
K. Abe, S. Abe, R. Akutsu +378
Since its first observation in the 1970s, neutrino-induced neutral-current single positive pion production (NC1) has remained an elusive and poorly understood interaction cha…
Contributions of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016)
The CTA Consortium, :, A. Abchiche +1387
List of contributions from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium presented at the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016), July 11-15,…
Neutrinos from Stored Muons nuSTORM: Expression of Interest
D. Adey, S. K. Agarwalla, C. M. Ankenbrandt +106
The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum spre…
First Measurement of the Electron Neutrino Charged-Current Pion Production Cross Section on Carbon with the T2K Near Detector
K. Abe, S. Abe, R. Akutsu +392
The T2K Collaboration presents the first measurement of electron neutrino-induced charged-current pion production on carbon in a restricted kinematical phase space. This is perform…
The SuperFGD Prototype Charged Particle Beam Tests
A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, S. Bordoni +47
A novel scintillator detector, the SuperFGD, has been selected as the main neutrino target for an upgrade of the T2K experiment ND280 near detector. The detector design will allow…
Control Software for the SST-1M Small-Size Telescope prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
V. Sliusar, R. Walter, C. Alispach +40
The SST-1M is a 4-m Davies--Cotton atmospheric Cherenkov telescope optimized to provide gamma-ray sensitivity above a few TeV. The SST-1M is proposed as part of the Small-Size Tele…
Software design for the control system for Small-Size Telescopes with single-mirror of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
A. Porcelli, W. Bilnik, J. BÅocki +49
The Small-Size Telescope with single-mirror (SST-1M) is a 4 m Davies-Cotton telescope and is among the proposed telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). It is con…
A Large Area Detector proposed for the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT)
S. Zane, D. Walton, T. Kennedy +54
The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the four candidate ESA M3 missions considered for launch in the 2022 time-frame. It is specifically designed to perform fast…
Using muon rings for the optical throughput calibration of the SST-1M prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
S. Toscano, E. Prandini, W. Bilnik +48
Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) are ground-based instruments devoted to the study of very high energy gamma-rays coming from space. The detection technique consist…
MICE: the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. Step I: First Measurement of Emittance with Particle Physics Detectors
U. Bravar, M. Bogomilov, Y. Karadzhov +144
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a strategic R&D project intended to demonstrate the only practical solution to providing high brilliance beams necessary for a neut…
Design and construction of the POLAR detector
N. Produit, T. W. Bao, T. Batsch +35
The POLAR detector is a space based Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) polarimeter with a wide field of view, which covers almost half the sky. The instrument uses Compton scattering of gamma r…
A Mini-Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope
S. Njoh Ekoume, C. Alispach, F. Cadoux +9
In this paper we describe the different software and hardware elements of a mini-telescope for the detection of cosmic rays and gamma-rays using the Cherenkov light emitted by thei…
Testing T2K's Bayesian constraints with priors in alternate parameterisations
The T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, S. Abe +400
Bayesian analysis results require a choice of prior distribution. In long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics, the usual parameterisation of the mixing matrix induces a prior tha…
The SST-1M imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope for gamma-ray astrophysics
C. Alispach, A. Araudo, M. Balbo +63
The SST-1M is a Small-Sized Telescope (SST) designed to provide a cost-effective and high-performance solution for gamma-ray astrophysics, particularly for energies beyond a few Te…
Calibration of the Space-borne Compton Polarimeter POLAR flight model with 100% polarized X-ray beams
H. L. Xiao, W. Hajdas, P. Socha +32
POLAR is space-borne detector designed for a precise measurement of gamma-ray polarization of the prompt emissions of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50 keV - 500 keV. POLAR i…
POLAR: Final Calibration and In-Flight Performance of a Dedicated GRB Polarimeter
M. Kole, T. W. Bao, T. Batsch +41
Gamma-ray polarimetry is a new powerful tool to study the processes responsible for the emission from astrophysical sources and the environments in which this emission takes place.…
Proposal for SPS beam time for the baby MIND and TASD neutrino detector prototypes
R. Asfandiyarov, R. Bayes, A. Blondel +22
The design, construction and testing of neutrino detector prototypes at CERN are ongoing activities. This document reports on the design of solid state baby MIND and TASD detector…
FACT: Towards Robotic Operation of an Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope
A. Biland, H. Anderhub, M. Backes +51
The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) became operational at La Palma in October 2011. Since summer 2012, due to very smooth and stable operation, it is the first telescope of…
Constraining Neutrino Interaction Uncertainties for Neutrino Oscillation Measurements at the T2K Experiment
K. Abe, S. Abe, H. Adhikary +438
In the context of neutrino oscillation measurements from the T2K experiment, the off-axis near detector ND280 plays a crucial role in constraining the incoming neutrino flux and ne…
The SST-1M stereoscopic system
C. Alispach, A. Araudo, M. Balbo +63
The Single-Mirror Small-Size Telescope (SST-1M) is an Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope designed for detecting very high-energy gamma rays. With a compact design achieved thr…
Development of a strategy for calibrating the novel SiPM camera of the SST-1M telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
I. Al Samarai, C. Alispach, F. Cadoux +36
CTA will comprise a sub-array of up to 70 small size telescopes (SSTs) at the southern array. The SST-1M project, a 4 m-diameter Davies Cotton telescope with 9 degrees FoV and a 12…
Design, optimization and characterization of the light concentrators of the single-mirror small size telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
J. A. Aguilar, A. Basili, V. Boccone +6
The focal-plane camera of -ray telescopes frequently uses light concentrators in front of light sensors. The purpose of these concentrators is to increase the effective area of…
Internal alignment and position resolution of the silicon tracker of DAMPE determined with orbit data
A. Tykhonov, G. Ambrosi, R. Asfandiyarov +40
The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-borne particle detector designed to probe electrons and gamma-rays in the few GeV to 10 TeV energy range, as well as cosmic-ray…
FACT -- The G-APD revolution in Cherenkov astronomy
T. Bretz, H. Anderhub, M. Backes +53
Since two years, the FACT telescope is operating on the Canary Island of La Palma. Apart from its purpose to serve as a monitoring facility for the brightest TeV blazars, it was bu…
Prospects for the detection of gamma rays using Cherenkov telescopes enhanced by a ground array observatory
C. Alispach, A. Araudo, A. Bakalová +67
We study through detailed simulated data and their optimized analysis the expected performance of the Single-Mirror Small-Size imaging atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (SST-1M) pot…
Testbeam Results of the Picosecond Avalanche Detector Proof-Of-Concept Prototype
G. Iacobucci, S. Zambito, M. Milanesio +24
The proof-of-concept prototype of the Picosecond Avalanche Detector, a multi-PN junction monolithic silicon detector with continuous gain layer deep in the sensor depleted region,…
Gain factor and parameter settings optimization of the new gamma-ray burst polarimeter POLAR
X. F. Zhang, W. Hajdas, H. L. Xiao +38
As a space-borne detector POLAR is designed to conduct hard X-ray polarization measurements of gamma-ray bursts on the statistically significant sample of events and with an unprec…
Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility
D. Adey, S. K. Agarwalla, C. M. Ankenbrandt +109
A facility that can deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam has the potential to unambiguously resolve the issue of the evidence for light…