Publications (32)
The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications
G. Aymar, T. Becker, S. Boogert +37
The `Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications', LhARA, is conceived as a novel, uniquely-flexible facility dedicated to the study of radiobiology. The technologies…
Adaptive Task Space Non-Singular Terminal Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control of a 7-DOF Robotic Manipulator
L. Wan, S. Smith, Y. -J. Pan +1
This paper presents a new task-space Non-singular Terminal Super-Twisting Sliding Mode (NT-STSM) controller with adaptive gains for robust trajectory tracking of a 7-DOF robotic ma…
SLAC UED LLRF System Upgrade
L. Ma, X. Shen, K. Kim +11
The SLAC mega-electron-volt (MeV) ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) instrument is a powerful "electron camera" for the study of time-resolved, ultrafast atomic & molecular dynam…
ATHENA X-IFU Demonstration Model: First joint operation of the main TES Array and its Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC)
M. D'Andrea, K. Ravensberg, A. Argan +28
The X-IFU is the cryogenic spectrometer onboard the future ATHENA X-ray observatory. It is based on a large array of TES microcalorimeters, which works in combination with a Cryoge…
SLAC Microresonator Radio Frequency (SMuRF) Electronics for Read Out of Frequency-Division-Multiplexed Cryogenic Sensors
S. A. Kernasovskiy, S. E. Kuenstner, E. Karpel +20
Large arrays of cryogenic sensors for various imaging applications ranging across x-ray, gamma-ray, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), mm/sub-mm, as well as particle detection incr…
Modern observations of Hubble's first-discovered Cepheid in M31
M. Templeton, A. Henden, W. Goff +9
We present a modern ephemeris and modern light curve of the first-discovered Cepheid variable in M31, Edwin Hubble's M31-V1. Observers of the American Association of Variable Star…
TeV and Multi-wavelength Observations of Mrk 421 in 2006-2008
V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen +103
We report on TeV gamma-ray observations of the blazar Mrk 421 (redshift of 0.031) with the VERITAS observatory and the Whipple 10m Cherenkov telescope. The excellent sensitivity of…
Modeling of Particle Transport, Neutrals and Radiation in Magnetically-Confined Plasmas with Aurora
F. Sciortino, T. OdstrÄil, A. Cavallaro +8
We present Aurora, an open-source package for particle transport, neutrals and radiation modeling in magnetic confinement fusion plasmas. Aurora's modern multi-language interface e…
Accelerator system for the PRISM based muon to electron conversion experiment
A. Alekou, R. Appleby, M. Aslaninejad +23
The next generation of lepton flavor violation experiments need high intensity and high quality muon beams. Production of such beams requires sending a short, high intensity proton…
Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics - A Collation of Six Submitted White Papers
G. Fabbiano, M. Elvis, A. Accomazzi +46
We write in response to the call from the 2020 Decadal Survey to submit white papers illustrating the most pressing scientific questions in astrophysics for the coming decade. We p…
First operation of LArTPC in the stratosphere as an engineering GRAMS balloon flight (eGRAMS)
R. Nakajima, S. Arai, K. Aoyama +60
GRAMS (Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey) is a next-generation balloon/satellite experiment utilizing a LArTPC (Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber), to simultaneously target astrop…
Supernova Relic Neutrino Search at Super-Kamiokande
Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Bays, T. Iida +104
A new Super-Kamiokande (SK) search for Supernova Relic Neutrinos (SRNs) was conducted using 2853 live days of data. Sensitivity is now greatly improved compared to the 2003 SK resu…
Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey(GRAMS) experiment
J. Zeng, T. Aramaki, D. Ames +62
The Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey (GRAMS) is a next-generation experiment using a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detector to measure MeV gamma rays and antiparticl…
The new radiation-hard optical links for the ATLAS pixel detector
Richard Kass, K. K. Gan, H. P. Kagan +6
The ATLAS detector is currently being upgraded with a new layer of pixel based charged particle tracking and a new arrangement of the services for the pixel detector. These upgrade…
Testing of Hamamatsu R5900-00-M64 Multi-Pixel PMTs for MINOS
M. A. Barker, A. De Santo, P. Dervan +7
The MINOS long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is comprised of three calorimeters, a Near Detector at FNAL, a Far Detector at the Soudan mine in northern Minnesota, and a…
Automated Assignment of Backbone Resonances Using Residual Dipolar Couplings Acquired from a Protein with Known Structure
P. Shealy, R. Mukhopadhyay, S. Smith +1
Resonance assignment is a critical first step in the investigation of protein structures using NMR spectroscopy. The development of assignment methods that require less experimenta…
Systematic Uncertainties in RF-Based Measurement of Superconducting Cavity Quality Factors
J. P. Holzbauer, Yu. Pischalnikov, D. A. Sergatskov +2
Q0 determinations based on RF power measurements are subject to at least three potentially large systematic effects that have not been previously appreciated. Instrumental factors…
Technical Design Report EuroGammaS proposal for the ELI-NP Gamma beam System
O. Adriani, S. Albergo, D. Alesini +106
The machine described in this document is an advanced Source of up to 20 MeV Gamma Rays based on Compton back-scattering, i.e. collision of an intense high power laser beam and a h…
A Test Facility for the International Linear Collider at SLAC End Station A, for Prototypes of Beam Delivery and IR Components
M. Woods, R. Erickson, J. Frisch +58
The SLAC Linac can deliver damped bunches with ILC parameters for bunch charge and bunch length to End Station A. A 10Hz beam at 28.5 GeV energy can be delivered there, parasitic w…
Antihelium-3 Sensitivity for the GRAMS Experiment
J. Zeng, T. Aramaki, K. Aoyama +62
The Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey (GRAMS) is a next-generation balloon/satellite mission utilizing a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detector to measure both MeV ga…
HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper Working Group - Data and Software Preservation to Enable Reuse
M. D. Hildreth, A. Boehnlein, K. Cranmer +20
In this chapter of the High Energy Physics Software Foundation Community Whitepaper, we discuss the current state of infrastructure, best practices, and ongoing developments in the…
ATLAS Pixel Opto-Electronics
K. E. Arms, P. Buchholz, K. K. Gan +13
We have developed two radiation-hard ASICs for optical data transmission in the ATLAS pixel detector at the LHC at CERN: a driver chip for a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser…
The Power Supply System of the CLEO III Silicon Detector
E. von Toerne, J. Burns, J. Duboscq +7
The CLEO III detector has recently commenced data taking at the Cornell electron Storage Ring (CESR). One important component of this detector is a 4 layer double-sided silicon tra…
Multiwavelength Observations of Markarian 421 in 2005 - 2006
D. Horan, V. A. Acciari, S. M. Bradbury +71
Since September 2005, the Whipple 10m Gamma-ray Telescope has been operated primarily as a blazar monitor. The five Northern Hemisphere blazars that have already been detected at t…
The Large Hadron-Electron Collider at the HL-LHC
P. Agostini, H. Aksakal, S. Alekhin +333
The Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) is designed to move the field of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) to the energy and intensity frontier of particle physics. Exploiting ener…
Science Objectives for an X-Ray Microcalorimeter Observing the Sun
J. Martin Laming, J. Adams, D. Alexander +57
We present the science case for a broadband X-ray imager with high-resolution spectroscopy, including simulations of X-ray spectral diagnostics of both active regions and solar fla…
An Indirect Search for WIMPs in the Sun using 3109.6 days of upward-going muons in Super-Kamiokande
Kamiokande Collaboration, T. Tanaka, K. Abe +110
We present the result of an indirect search for high energy neutrinos from WIMP annihilation in the Sun using upward-going muon (upmu) events at Super-Kamiokande. Datasets from SKI…
Strong absorption and selective thermal emission from a mid-infrared metamaterial
J. A. Mason, S. Smith, D. Wasserman
We demonstrate thin-film metamaterials with resonances in the mid-infrared wavelength range. Our structures are numerically modeled and experimentally characterized by reflection a…
Revival of the magnetar PSR J1622-4950: observations with MeerKAT, Parkes, XMM-Newton, Swift, Chandra, and NuSTAR
F. Camilo, P. Scholz, M. Serylak +205
New radio (MeerKAT and Parkes) and X-ray (XMM-Newton, Swift, Chandra, and NuSTAR) observations of PSR J1622-4950 indicate that the magnetar, in a quiescent state since at least ear…
Characterization of a Single Crystal Diamond Pixel Detector in a High Energy Particle Beam
M. Mathes, M. Cristinziani, H. Kagan +4
Diamond has been developed as a material for the detection of charged particles by ionization. Its radiation hardness makes it an attractive material for detectors operated in a ha…
PERLE: Powerful Energy Recovery Linac for Experiments - Conceptual Design Report
D. Angal-Kalinin, G. Arduini, B. Auchmann +39
A conceptual design is presented of a novel ERL facility for the development and application of the energy recovery technique to linear electron accelerators in the multi-turn, lar…
Determining Individual Origin Similarity (DInOS): Binary Classification of Authors Using Stylometric Features
A. Kingsland, D. Fortin, E. Cary +3
Author similarity and detection is an integral first step in detecting state-led disinformation campaigns in an automated fashion. Current detection techniques require an analyst o…