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physics.ins-det2016★ 12 cited

Limits on uranium and thorium bulk content in GERDA Phase I detectors

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, M. Allardt +113

Internal contaminations of U, U and Th in the bulk of high purity germanium detectors are potential backgrounds for experiments searching for neutrinoless d…

physics.ins-det2016★ 119 cited

Reconstruction of primary vertices at the ATLAS experiment in Run 1 proton-proton collisions at the LHC

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper presents the method and performance of primary vertex reconstruction in proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment during Run 1 of the LHC. The studie…

physics.ins-det2016★ 423 cited

Dielectric Haloscopes: A New Way to Detect Axion Dark Matter

The MADMAX Working Group, Allen Caldwell, Gia Dvali +7

We propose a new strategy to search for dark matter axions in the mass range of 40--400 eV by introducing dielectric haloscopes, which consist of dielectric disks placed in a ma…

physics.ins-det2016★ 6 cited

Alpha-event and surface characterisation in segmented true-coaxial HPGe detectors

Iris Abt, Lucia Garbini, Chris Gooch +4

A detailed study of alpha interactions on the passivation layer on the end-plate of a true-coaxial high-purity germanium detector is presented. The observation of alpha events on s…

physics.ins-det2016★ 7 cited

The Muon-Induced Neutron Indirect Detection EXperiment, MINIDEX

I. Abt, A. Caldwell, C. Carissimo +8

A new experiment to quantitatively measure neutrons induced by cosmic-ray muons in selected high-Z materials is introduced. The design of the Muon-Induced Neutron Indirect Detectio…

physics.ins-det2016★ 10 cited

Investigation of thin n-in-p planar pixel modules for the ATLAS upgrade

N. Savic, J. Beyer, A. La Rosa +2

In view of the High Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), planned to start around 2023-2025, the ATLAS experiment will undergo a replacement of the Inner Detect…

physics.ins-det2016★ 11 cited

Impact of ADC non-linearities on the sensitivity to sterile keV neutrinos with a KATRIN-like experiment

K. Dolde, S. Mertens, D. Radford +5

ADC non-linearities are a major systematic effect in the search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with tritium -decay experiments like KATRIN. They can significantly distort the s…

physics.ins-det2016★ 10 cited

A novel technique for the measurement of the avalanche fluctuation of gaseous detectors

Makoto Kobayashi, Tomohisa Ogawa, Tomohiko Kawaguchi +12

We have developed a novel technique for the measurement of the avalanche fluctuation of gaseous detectors using a UV laser. The technique is simple and requires a short data-taking…

physics.ins-det2016★ 17 cited

First test of an enriched CdWO scintillating bolometer for neutrinoless double-beta-decay searches

A. S. Barabash, F. A. Danevich, Y. Gimbal-Zofka +13

For the first time, a cadmium tungstate crystal scintillator enriched in Cd has been succesfully tested as a scintillating bolometer. The measurement was performed above gr…

physics.ins-det2016★ 10 cited

Development of n-in-p pixel modules for the ATLAS Upgrade at HL-LHC

Anna Macchiolo, Richard Nisius, Natascha Savic +1

Thin planar pixel modules are promising candidates to instrument the inner layers of the new ATLAS pixel detector for HL-LHC, thanks to the reduced contribution to the material bud…

physics.ins-det2016★ 74 cited

First array of enriched ZnSe bolometers to search for double beta decay

D. R. Artusa, A. Balzoni, J. W. Beeman +47

The R&D activity performed during the last years proved the potential of ZnSe scintillating bolometers to the search for neutrino-less double beta decay, motivating the realization…

physics.ins-det2016★ 17 cited

Thin n-in-p planar pixel modules for the ATLAS upgrade at HL-LHC

N. Savic, L. Bergbreiter, J. Breuer +4

The ATLAS experiment will undergo a major upgrade of the tracker system in view of the high luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) foreseen to start around 2025. Thin planar pixel mo…

physics.ins-det2016★ 10 cited

Resistive Plate Chamber Digitization in a Hadronic Shower Environment

Z. Deng, Y. Li, Y. Wang +125

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadron Calorimeter (SDHCAL) technological prototype is a sampling calorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chamber detectors with a three-threshold readout a…

physics.ins-det2016★ 12 cited

Construction and Test of the Precision Drift Chambers for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

F. Bauer, W. Blum, U. Bratzler +14

The Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers for the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consist of 3-4 layers of pressurised drift tubes on eithe…

physics.ins-det2016★ 38 cited

Construction and Test of MDT Chambers for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

F. Bauer, U. Bratzler, H. Dietl +12

The Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers for the muon spectrometer of the AT- LAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consist of 3-4 layers of pressurized drift tubes on eit…

physics.ins-det2016★ 1 cited

Performance of the ATLAS Muon Drift-Tube Chambers at High Background Rates and in Magnetic Fields

J. Dubbert, S. Horvat, F. Legger +6

The ATLAS muon spectrometer uses drift-tube chambers for precision tracking. The performance of these chambers in the presence of magnetic field and high radiation fluxes is studie…

physics.ins-det2016★ 4 cited

A Time Projection Chamber with GEM-Based Readout

The LCTPC Collaboration, David Attié, Ties Behnke +67

For the International Large Detector concept at the planned International Linear Collider, the use of time projection chambers (TPC) with micro-pattern gas detector readout as the…

physics.ins-det2016★ 6 cited

Large-Scale Production of Monitored Drift Tube Chambers for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

F. Bauer, S. Horvat, O. Kortner +5

Precision drift tube chambers with a sense wire positioning accuracy of better than 20 microns are under construction for the ATLAS muon spectrometer. 70% of the 88 large chambers…

physics.ins-det2016★ 23 cited

Performance of the ATLAS Precision Muon Chambers under LHC Operating Conditions

M. Deile, H. Dietl, J. Dubbert +8

For the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider (LHC), large drift chambers consisting of 6 to 8 layers of pressurized drift tubes are used for precisi…

physics.ins-det2016★ 8 cited

Resolution and Efficiency of the ATLAS Muon Drift-Tube Chambers at High Background Rates

M. Deile, J. Dubbert, S. Horvat +8

The resolution and efficiency of a precision drift-tube chamber for the ATLAS muon spectrometer with final read-out electronics was tested at the Gamma Irradiation Facility at CERN…

physics.ins-det2016★ 10 cited

Upgrades of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer with sMDT Chambers

C. Ferretti, H. Kroha

With half the drift-tube diameter of the Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers of the ATLAS muon spectrometer and otherwise unchanged operating parameters, small-diameter Muon Drift…

physics.ins-det2016★ 11 cited

Development of Fast High-Resolution Muon Drift-Tube Detectors for High Counting Rates

B. Bittner, J. Dubbert, S. Horvat +10

Pressurized drift-tube chambers are efficient detectors for high-precision tracking over large areas. The Monitored Drift-Tube (MDT) chambers of the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS…

physics.ins-det2016★ 14 cited

Performance of Drift-Tube Detectors at High Counting Rates for High-Luminosity LHC Upgrades

Bernhard Bittner, Joerg Dubbert, Oliver Kortner +11

The performance of pressurized drift-tube detectors at very high background rates has been studied at the Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF) at CERN and in an intense 20 MeV proton b…

physics.ins-det2016★ 19 cited

Development of Muon Drift-Tube Detectors for High-Luminosity Upgrades of the Large Hadron Collider

B. Bittner, J. Dubbert, O. Kortner +7

The muon detectors of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have to cope with unprecedentedly high neutron and gamma ray background rates. In the forward regions of th…