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Test beam studies of the light yield, time and coordinate resolutions of scintillator strips with WLS fibers and SiPM readout
Dmitri Denisov, Valery Evdokimov, Strahinja Lukić +1
Prototype scintilator+WLS strips with SiPM readout for large muon detection systems were tested in the muon beam of the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. Light yield of up to 137 photoe…
Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to Neutrino Events in a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +136
We present several studies of convolutional neural networks applied to data coming from the MicroBooNE detector, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). The algorithms stu…
Effect of Low Electric Fields on Alpha Scintillation Light Yield in Liquid Argon
P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +158
Measurements were made of scintillation light yield of alpha particles from the Rn decay chain within the DarkSide-50 liquid argon time projection chamber. The light yield…
The Holometer: An Instrument to Probe Planckian Quantum Geometry
Aaron Chou, Henry Glass, H. Richard Gustafson +10
This paper describes the Fermilab Holometer, an instrument for measuring correlations of position variations over a four-dimensional volume of space-time. The apparatus consists of…
CALIS - a CALibration Insertion System for the DarkSide-50 dark matter search experiment
P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +162
This paper describes the design, fabrication, commissioning and use of a CALibration source Insertion System (CALIS) in the DarkSide-50 direct dark matter search experiment. CALIS…
Background rejection in NEXT using deep neural networks
NEXT Collaboration, J. Renner, A. Farbin +64
We investigate the potential of using deep learning techniques to reject background events in searches for neutrinoless double beta decay with high pressure xenon time projection c…
Capacitively coupled pickup in MCP-based photodetectors using a conductive metallic anode
Evan Angelico, Todd Seiss, Bernhard Adams +3
We have designed and tested a robust 20 20 cm thin metal film internal anode capacitively coupled to an external array of signal pads or micro-strips for use in fast m…
Projected Sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment
R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, T. Aramaki +93
SuperCDMS SNOLAB will be a next-generation experiment aimed at directly detecting low-mass (< 10 GeV/c) particles that may constitute dark matter by using cryogenic detectors o…
Separating Double-Beta Decay Events from Solar Neutrino Interactions in a Kiloton-Scale Liquid Scintillator Detector By Fast Timing
Andrey Elagin, Henry Frisch, Brian Naranjo +3
We present a technique for separating nuclear double beta decay (-decay) events from background neutrino interactions due to B decays in the sun. This background becomes…
Dose rate effects in the radiation damage of the plastic scintillators of the CMS Hadron Endcap Calorimeter
HCAL collaboration
We present measurements of the reduction of light output by plastic scintillators irradiated in the CMS detector during the 8 TeV run of the Large Hadron Collider and show that the…
Optimizing floating guard ring designs for FASPAX N-in-P silicon sensors
Kyung-Wook Shin, Robert Bradford, Ronald Lipton +4
FASPAX (Fermi-Argonne Semiconducting Pixel Array X-ray detector) is being developed as a fast integrating area detector with wide dynamic range for time resolved applications at th…
Construction and Assembly of the Wire Planes for the MicroBooNE Time Projection Chamber
R. Acciarri, C. Adams, J. Asaadi +14
In this paper we describe how the readout planes for the MicroBooNE Time Projection Chamber were constructed, assembled and installed. We present the individual wire preparation us…
The CMS trigger system
CMS Collaboration
This paper describes the CMS trigger system and its performance during Run 1 of the LHC. The trigger system consists of two levels designed to select events of potential physics in…
Measurement of the low-energy quenching factor in germanium using an Y/Be photoneutron source
B. J. Scholz, A. E. Chavarria, J. I. Collar +2
We employ an Y/Be photoneutron source to derive the quenching factor for neutron-induced nuclear recoils in germanium, probing recoil energies from a few hundred eV t…
Design and status of the Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter
N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +33
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab aims at measuring the neutrinoless conversion of a negative muon into an electron and reach a single event sensitivity of 2.5x10^{-17} after three y…
A Modular Data Acquisition System using the 10 GSa/s PSEC4 Waveform Recording Chip
M. Bogdan, E. Oberla, H. J. Frisch +1
We describe a modular multi-channel data acquisition system based on the 5-15 Gigasample-per-second waveform-recording PSEC4 chip. The system architecture incorporates two levels o…
Design, status and test of the Mu2e crystal calorimeter
N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +33
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab searches for the charged-lepton flavor violating neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a aluminum nucleus. Th…
Experiment Simulation Configurations Used in DUNE CDR
T. Alion, J. J. Back, A. Bashyal +31
The LBNF/DUNE CDR describes the proposed physics program and experimental design at the conceptual design phase. Volume 2, entitled The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF, outlines t…
The Electronics and Data Acquisition System for the DarkSide-50 Veto Detectors
P. Agnes, L. Agostino, I. F. M. Albuquerque +155
DarkSide-50 is a detector for dark matter candidates in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). It utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) for t…
A Factor of Four Increase in Attenuation Length of Dipped Lightguides for Liquid Argon TPCs Through Improved Coating
Z. Moss, J. Moon, L. Bugel +4
This paper describes new techniques for producing lightguides for detection of scintillation light in liquid argon time projection chambers. These can be used in future neutrino ex…
Results of the engineering run of the Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE)
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, X. Bertou, C. Bonifazi +25
The CONNIE detector prototype is operating at a distance of 30 m from the core of a 3.8 GW nuclear reactor with the goal of establishing Charge-Coupled Devices (CCD) as…
Near-infrared scintillation of liquid argon
T. Alexander, C. O. Escobar, W. H. Lippincott +1
Since the 1970s it has been known that noble gases scintillate in the near infrared (NIR) region of the spectrum (0.7 m < ; < 1.5m). More controversial has been the questi…
Design, Construction and Commissioning of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter - DHCAL
C. Adams, A. Bambaugh, B. Bilki +33
A novel hadron calorimeter is being developed for future lepton colliding beam detectors. The calorimeter is optimized for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) to the…
Status of Dual-readout R&D for a linear collider in T1015 Collaboration
Corrado Gatto, Vito Di Benedetto, Eileen Hahn +1
The hadronic energy resolution required for an hadronic operating at lepton collider is at the limits or even exceeds that obtained with traditional techniques. Furthermore, it is…