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physics.ins-det2018★ 69 cited

Silicon Photomultipliers in Particle and Nuclear Physics

Frank Simon

Following first large-scale applications in highly granular calorimeters and in neutrino detectors, Silicon Photomultipliers have seen a wide adoption in accelerator-based particle…

physics.ins-det2018★ 1 cited

TCAD simulations of pixel sensors for the ATLAS ITk upgrade and performance of annealed planar pixel modules

Julien-Christopher Beyer, Alessandro La Rosa, Anna Macchiolo +3

For the high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider to start operation around 2026, a major upgrade of the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) is in preparation. Thanks to their low p…

physics.ins-det2018★ 5 cited

Characterisation of an n-type segmented BEGe detector

I. Abt, A. Caldwell, B. Donmez +10

A four-fold segmented n-type point-contact "Broad Energy" high-purity germanium detector, SegBEGe, has been characterised at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik in Munich. The main…

physics.ins-det2018★ 72 cited

A novel detector system for KATRIN to search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos

Susanne Mertens, Antonio Alborini, Konrad Altenmüller +19

Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. If their mass is in the kilo-electron-volt regime, they are viable dark matter candidates. One…

physics.ins-det2018★ 9 cited

A highly granular calorimeter concept for long baseline near detectors

Lorenz Emberger, Frank Simon

Future long baseline neutrino experiments such as the DUNE experiment under construction at Fermilab will perform precision measurements of neutrino oscillations, including the pot…

physics.ins-det2018

Impact of a cryogenic baffle system on the suppression of radon-induced background in the KATRIN Pre-Spectrometer

S. Goerhardt, J. Bonn, L. Bornschein +9

The KATRIN experiment will determine the effective electron anti-neutrino mass with a sensitivity of 200 meV/c at 90% CL. The energy analysis of tritium -decay electrons wil…

physics.ins-det2018★ 48 cited

A highly granular SiPM-on-tile calorimeter prototype

Felix Sefkow, Frank Simon

The Analogue Hadron Calorimeter (AHCAL) developed by the CALICE collaboration is a scalable engineering prototype for a Linear Collider detector. It is a sampling calorimeter of st…

physics.ins-det2018★ 28 cited

The KATRIN Superconducting Magnets: Overview and First Performance Results

M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek, M. Beck +121

The KATRIN experiment aims for the determination of the effective electron anti-neutrino mass from the tritium beta-decay with an unprecedented sub-eV sensitivity. The strong magne…

physics.ins-det2018★ 40 cited

Analysis of cryogenic calorimeters with light and heat read-out for double beta decay searches

O. Azzolini, M. T. Barrera, J. W. Beeman +47

The suppression of spurious events in the region of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay will play a major role in next generation experiments. The background of detectors b…

physics.ins-det2018★ 4 cited

Reduction of stored-particle background by a magnetic pulse method at the KATRIN experiment

KATRIN Collaboration, M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek +127

The KATRIN experiment aims to determine the effective electron neutrino mass with a sensitivity of (90\% C.L.) by precision measurement of the shape of the t…

physics.ins-det2018★ 14 cited

Muon-induced background in the KATRIN main spectrometer

K. Altenmüller, M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek +131

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims to make a model-independent determination of the effective electron antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c.…

physics.ins-det2018★ 12 cited

The CUORE cryostat

A. D'Addabbo, M. Biassoni, C. Bucci +38

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a bolometric experiment for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Te search, currently taking data at the under…

physics.ins-det2018★ 3 cited

Recent Results from the Majorana Demonstrator

T Gilliss, S I Alvis, I J Arnquist +65

The MAJORANA Collaboration has completed construction and is now operating an array of high purity Ge detectors searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay () in Ge.…

physics.ins-det2018★ 14 cited

Characterization of High Purity Germanium Point Contact Detectors with Low Net Impurity Concentration

S. Mertens, A. Hegai, D. C. Radford +5

High Purity germanium point-contact detectors have low energy thresholds and excellent energy resolution over a wide energy range, and are thus widely used in nuclear and particle…

physics.ins-det2018★ 4 cited

Energy Reconstruction of Hadrons in highly granular combined ECAL and HCAL systems

Yasmine Israeli

This paper discusses the hadronic energy reconstruction of two combined electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter systems using physics prototypes of the CALICE collaboration: the s…

physics.ins-det2018★ 568 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 72 cited

CUPID-0: the first array of enriched scintillating bolometers for 0νββdecay investigations

O. Azzolini, M. T. Barrera, J. W. Beeman +47

The CUPID-0 detector hosted at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, is the first large array of enriched scintillating cryogenic detectors for the investigation of $^{82…

physics.ins-det2018★ 22 cited

Calibration of high voltages at the ppm level by the difference of Kr conversion electron lines at the KATRIN experiment

M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek, M. Beck +124

The neutrino mass experiment KATRIN requires a stability of 3 ppm for the retarding potential at -18.6 kV of the main spectrometer. To monitor the stability, two custom-made ultra-…

physics.ins-det2018★ 29 cited

First transmission of electrons and ions through the KATRIN beamline

M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek, M. Beck +126

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is a large-scale effort to probe the absolute neutrino mass scale with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90% confidence level), via a prec…

physics.ins-det2018

Detector Development for a Sterile Neutrino Search with the KATRIN Experiment

Tim Brunst, Konrad Altenmüller, Tobias Bode +11

The KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment investigates the energetic endpoint of the tritium -decay spectrum to determine the effective mass of the electron anti-neutri…

physics.ins-det2018

Characterisation of novel thin n-in-p planar pixel modules for the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade

Julien-Christopher Beyer, Alessandro La Rosa, Anna Macchiolo +2

In view of the high luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) to start operation around 2026, a major upgrade of the tracker system for the ATLAS experiment is in preparation. The expec…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

Direct measurement of neutrons induced in lead by cosmic muons at a shallow underground site

Qiang Du, Iris Abt, Anton Empl +9

Neutron production in lead by cosmic muons has been studied with a Gadolinium doped liquid scintillator detector. The detector was installed next to the Muon-Induced Neutron Indire…