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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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physics.ins-det2020★ 4 cited

A novel experimental system for the KDK measurement of the K decay scheme relevant for rare event searches

M. Stukel, B. C. Rasco, N. T. Brewer +26

Potassium-40 (K) is a long-lived, naturally occurring radioactive isotope. The decay products are prominent backgrounds for many rare event searches, including those involvi…

physics.ins-det2020★ 8 cited

A time resolved study of injection backgrounds during the first commissioning phase of SuperKEKB

Miroslav Gabriel, Frank Simon, Hendrik Windel +13

We report on measurements of beam backgrounds during the first commissioning phase of the SuperKEKB collider in 2016, performed with the plastic scintillator and silicon photomulti…

physics.ins-det2020

Calibration of nuclear recoils at the 100 eV scale using neutron capture

L. Thulliez, D. Lhuillier, F. Cappella +34

The development of low-threshold detectors for the study of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and for the search for light dark matter necessitates methods of low-energy…

physics.ins-det2020★ 20 cited

Characterization of Silicon Drift Detectors with Electrons for the TRISTAN Project

S. Mertens, T. Brunst, M. Korzeczek +30

Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. A promising model-independent way to search for sterile neutrinos is via high-precision beta sp…

physics.ins-det2020★ 36 cited

Characterization of a Silicon Drift Detector for High-Resolution Electron Spectroscopy

Matteo Gugiatti, Matteo Biassoni, Marco Carminati +8

Silicon Drift Detectors, widely employed in high-resolution and high-rate X-ray applications, are considered here with interest also for electron detection. The accurate measuremen…

physics.ins-det2020★ 18 cited

-event Characterization and Rejection in Point-Contact HPGe Detectors

The MAJORANA Collaboration, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +62

P-type point contact (PPC) HPGe detectors are a leading technology for rare event searches due to their excellent energy resolution, low thresholds, and multi-site event rejection…

physics.ins-det2020★ 7 cited

Investigation of ASIC-based signal readout electronics for LEGEND-1000

F. Edzards, M. Willers, A. Alborini +9

LEGEND, the Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay, is a ton-scale experimental program to search for neutrinoless double beta () decay in the isotop…

physics.ins-det2020★ 20 cited

Performance of the upgraded PreProcessor of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger

ATLAS Collaboration

The PreProcessor of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger prepares the analogue trigger signals sent from the ATLAS calorimeters by digitising, synchronising, and calibrating them…

physics.ins-det2020★ 9 cited

Cryogenic characterization of a LiAlO crystal and new results on spin-dependent dark matter interactions with ordinary matter

A. H. Abdelhameed, G. Angloher, P. Bauer +56

In this work, a first cryogenic characterization of a scintillating LiAlO single crystal is presented. The results achieved show that this material holds great potential as a…

physics.ins-det2020★ 9 cited

Hunting keV sterile neutrinos with KATRIN: building the first TRISTAN module

Thibaut Houdy, Antonio Alborini, Konrad Altenmüller +21

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

physics.ins-det2020★ 5 cited

Particle Identification Using Boosted Decision Trees in the Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter Prototype

D. Boumediene, A. Pingault, M. Tytgat +87

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype using Glass Resistive Plate Chambers as a sensitive medium is the first technological prototype of a family of high-…

physics.ins-det2020★ 322 cited

Performance of the ATLAS muon triggers in Run 2

ATLAS Collaboration

The performance of the ATLAS muon trigger system is evaluated with proton-proton () and heavy-ion (HI) collision data collected in Run 2 during 2015-2018 at the Large Hadron Co…

physics.ins-det2020★ 9 cited

Effects of misalignment on response uniformity of SiPM-on-tile technology for highly granular calorimeters

L. M. S. de Silva, F. Simon

The SiPM-on-tile technology, consisting of plastic scintillator tiles with typical sizes of a few cm mounted on top of SiPMs, has been developed within the CALICE collaboration…

physics.ins-det2020★ 12 cited

Characterization of High-Purity Germanium Detectors with Amorphous Germanium Contacts in Cryogenic Liquids

R. Panth, J. Liu, I. Abt +6

For the first time, planar high-purity germanium detectors with thin amorphous germanium contacts were successfully operated directly in liquid nitrogen and liquid argon in a cryos…

physics.ins-det2020★ 14 cited

ADC Nonlinearity Correction for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

N. Abgrall, J. M. Allmond, I. J. Arnquist +64

Imperfections in analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) cannot be ignored when signal digitization requirements demand both wide dynamic range and high resolution, as is the case for t…

physics.ins-det2020★ 16 cited

A first proof of principle booster setup for the MADMAX dielectric haloscope

Jacob Egge, Stefan Knirck, Béla Majorovits +2

Axions and axion-like particles are excellent low-mass dark matter candidates. The MADMAX experiment aims to directly detect galactic axions with masses between and…