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physics.ins-det2013

CDF Run II Silicon Vertex Detector Annealing Study

M. Stancari, K. Knoepfel, S. Behari +8

Between Run II commissioning in early 2001 and the end of operations in September 2011, the Tevatron collider delivered 12~fb of collisions at TeV…

physics.ins-det2013★ 2 cited

Development of a proton Computed Tomography (pCT) scanner at NIU

S. A. Uzunyan, G. Blazey, S. Boi +17

We describe the development of a proton Computed Tomography (pCT) scanner at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in collaboration with Fermilab and Delhi University. This paper prov…

physics.ins-det2013

Applications of Many-Core Technologies to On-line Event Reconstruction in High Energy Physics Experiments

A. Gianelle, S. Amerio, D. Bastieri +10

Interest in many-core architectures applied to real time selections is growing in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. In this paper we describe performance measurements of many-…

physics.ins-det2013★ 47 cited

A New Method for Measuring Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering at an Off-Axis High-Energy Neutrino Beam Target

S. J. Brice, R. L. Cooper, F. DeJongh +17

We present a new experimental method for measuring the process of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CENNS). This method uses a detector situated transverse to a high en…

physics.ins-det2013★ 49 cited

Detector and Event Visualization with SketchUp at the CMS Experiment

Tai Sakuma, Thomas McCauley

We have created 3D models of the CMS detector and particle collision events in SketchUp, a 3D modelling program. SketchUp provides a Ruby API which we use to interface with the CMS…

physics.ins-det2013★ 4 cited

Many-core applications to online track reconstruction in HEP experiments

S. Amerio, D. Bastieri, M. Corvo +10

Interest in parallel architectures applied to real time selections is growing in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. In this paper we describe performance measurements of Graphi…

physics.ins-det2013★ 45 cited

The PHENIX Forward Silicon Vertex Detector

C. Aidala, L. Anaya, E. Anderssen +82

A new silicon detector has been developed to provide the PHENIX experiment with precise charged particle tracking at forward and backward rapidity. The Forward Silicon Vertex Track…

physics.ins-det2013

Sensor Compendium

M. Artuso, M. Battaglia, G. Bolla +29

Sensors play a key role in detecting both charged particles and photons for all three frontiers in Particle Physics. The signals from an individual sensor that can be used include…

physics.ins-det2013

Intensity Frontier Computing at Fermilab

Stephen Wolbers

The Intensity Frontier (IF) experiments at Fermilab require computing, software, data handling, and infrastructure development for detector and beamline design and to extract maxim…

physics.ins-det2013★ 23 cited

The CAPTAIN Detector and Physics Program

The CAPTAIN Collaboration, H. Berns, H. Chen +44

The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrino (CAP- TAIN) program is designed to make measurements of scientific importance to long-baseline neutr…

physics.ins-det2013★ 288 cited

CDMSlite: A Search for Low-Mass WIMPs using Voltage-Assisted Calorimetric Ionization Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, M. Asai +77

SuperCDMS is an experiment designed to directly detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a favored candidate for dark matter ubiquitous in the Universe. In this paper,…

physics.ins-det2013★ 16 cited

The Effects of Dissolved Methane upon Liquid Argon Scintillation Light

B. J. P. Jones, T. Alexander, H. O. Back +6

In this paper we report on measurements of the effects of dissolved methane upon argon scintillation light. We monitor the light yield from an alpha source held 20 cm from a cryoge…

physics.ins-det2013★ 15 cited

Status and New Ideas Regarding Liquid Argon Detectors

Alberto Marchionni

Large (up to kt) liquid argon time-projection chamber detectors are presently being considered for proton decay searches and neutrino astrophysics, as well as for far de…

physics.ins-det2013★ 14 cited

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States

B. Baller, C. Bromberg, N. Buchanan +34

A workshop was held at Fermilab on March 20-21, 2013 to discuss the development of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPC) in the United States. The workshop was organized u…

physics.ins-det2013★ 1 cited

R&D Argon Detector at Ash River (RADAR) - Letter of Intent

P. Adamson, S. Agarwalla, A. Aurisano +18

In the RADAR project described in this Letter of Intent, we propose to deploy a 6 kton liquid argon TPC at the NOvA Far Detector building in Ash River, Minnesota, and expose it to…

physics.ins-det2013★ 2 cited

CHerenkov detectors In mine PitS (CHIPS) Letter of Intent to FNAL

P. Adamson, S. V. Cao, J. A. B. Coelho +32

This Letter of Intent outlines a proposal to build a large, yet cost-effective, 100 kton fiducial mass water Cherenkov detector that will initially run in the NuMI beam line. The C…

physics.ins-det2013★ 109 cited

A study of electron recombination using highly ionizing particles in the ArgoNeuT Liquid Argon TPC

R. Acciarri, C. Adams, J. Asaadi +29

Electron recombination in highly ionizing stopping protons and deuterons is studied in the ArgoNeuT detector. The data are well modeled by either a Birks model or a modified form o…

physics.ins-det2013★ 37 cited

Observation of the Dependence of Scintillation from Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon on Drift Field

T. Alexander, H. O. Back, H. Cao +27

We have exposed a dual-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC) to a low energy pulsed narrowband neutron beam, produced at the Notre Dame Institute for Structure and N…

physics.ins-det2013★ 7 cited

A Toroidal Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector (MIND) for a Neutrino Factory

A. Bross, R. Wands, R. Bayes +8

A neutrino factory has unparalleled physics reach for the discovery and measurement of CP violation in the neutrino sector. A far detector for a neutrino factory must have good cha…

physics.ins-det2013★ 212 cited

Design, Calibration, and Performance of the MINERvA Detector

L. Aliaga, L. Bagby, B. Baldin +102

The MINERvA experiment is designed to perform precision studies of neutrino-nucleus scattering using and neutrinos incident at 1-20 GeV in the NuMI beam at Fermil…

physics.ins-det2013★ 34 cited

Direct Measurement of the Bubble Nucleation Energy Threshold in a CF3I Bubble Chamber

COUPP Collaboration, E. Behnke, T. Benjamin +20

We have directly measured the energy threshold and efficiency for bubble nucleation from iodine recoils in a CF3I bubble chamber in the energy range of interest for a dark matter s…

physics.ins-det2013★ 33 cited

Operational experience, improvements, and performance of the CDF Run II silicon vertex detector

T. Aaltonen, S. Behari, A. Boveia +57

The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) pursues a broad physics program at Fermilab's Tevatron collider. Between Run II commissioning in early 2001 and the end of operations in Sep…