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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-det2025★ 2 cited

Simulation of radiation environment for the beam monitor of CEE experiment

Qian Wang, Hulin Wang, Chaosong Gao +12

The cooling storage ring external-target experiment is a large-scale nuclear physics experiment, which aims to study the physics of heavy-ion collisions at low temperatures and hig…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

Design and performance of the prototype gaseous beam monitor with GEM and pixel sensors for the CSR external-target experiment

Hulin Wang, Xianglun Wei, Chaosong Gao +13

A gaseous beam monitor utilizing gas electron multiplier (GEM) and pixel sensors is being developed for the Cooling Storage Ring (CSR) External-target Experiment (CEE) at Heavy Ion…

physics.ins-det2025

Development of a simulation and analysis framework for NνDEx experiment

Tianyu Liang, Hulin Wang, Dongliang Zhang +9

NDEx aims to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay in Se using a high pressure SeF gas time projection chamber (TPC). This paper presents a simulation…

physics.ins-det2025

Towards energy-insensitive and robust neutron/gamma classification: A learning-based frequency-domain parametric approach

Pengcheng Ai, Hongtao Qin, Xiangming Sun +1

Neutron/gamma discrimination has been intensively researched in recent years, due to its unique scientific value and widespread applications. With the advancement of detection mate…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

A Comprehensive Monte Carlo Simulation Tool on Electron Transport in Noble Gases and Liquids

Lei Cao, Guofu Cao, Yan Fan +9

For the particle detectors based on noble gases or liquids, it is essential to understand the transport dynamic and the properties of the electrons. We report the development of a…

physics.ins-det2025

Intelligent experiments through real-time AI: Fast Data Processing and Autonomous Detector Control for sPHENIX and future EIC detectors

J. Kvapil, G. Borca-Tasciuc, H. Bossi +30

This R\&D project, initiated by the DOE Nuclear Physics AI-Machine Learning initiative in 2022, leverages AI to address data processing challenges in high-energy nuclear experiment…

physics.ins-det2024★ 1 cited

Measurement of gas properties for the ion-TPC of NDEx experiment

Tianyu Liang, Meiqiang Zhan, Hulin Wang +13

In the NDEx collaboration, a high-pressure gas TPC is being developed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay. The use of electronegative gas ma…

physics.ins-det2024

Scintillation pulse characterization with spectrum-inspired temporal neural networks: case studies on particle detector signals

Pengcheng Ai, Xiangming Sun, Zhi Deng +1

Particle detectors based on scintillators are widely used in high-energy physics and astroparticle physics experiments, nuclear medicine imaging, industrial and environmental detec…

physics.ins-det2024★ 5 cited

The 120Gbps VCSEL Array Based Optical Transmitter (ATx) Development for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) Experiments

Di Guo, Chonghan Liu, Jinghong Chen +18

The integration of a Verticle Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) array and a driving Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) in a custom optical array transmitter module…

physics.ins-det2024★ 11 cited

Optical Data Transmission ASICs for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) Experiments

Xiaoting Li, Gang Liu, Jinghong Chen +17

We present the design and test results of two optical data transmission ASICs for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) experiments. These ASICs include a two-channel serializer (LOCs2)…

physics.ins-det2024★ 5 cited

The Clock Distribution System for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-I Upgrade Demonstrator

Binwei Deng, Hucheng Chen, Kai Chen +14

A prototype Liquid-argon Trigger Digitizer Board (LTDB), called the LTDB Demonstrator, has been developed to demonstrate the functions of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-I…

physics.ins-det2024★ 7 cited

The VCSEL-based Array Optical Transmitter (ATx) Development Towards 120-Gbps Link for Collider Detector: Development Update

Di Guo, Chonghan Liu, Jinghong Chen +14

A compact radiation-tolerant array optical transmitter module (ATx) is developed to provide data transmission up to 10Gbps per channel with 12 parallel channels for collider detect…

physics.ins-det2024★ 12 cited

JTAG-based Remote Configuration of FPGAs over Optical Fibers

Binwei Deng, Chonghan Liu, Jinghong Chen +12

In this paper, a remote FPGA-configuration method based on JTAG extension over optical fibers is presented. The method takes advantage of commercial components and ready-to-use sof…

physics.ins-det2023

A demonstrator for a real-time AI-FPGA-based triggering system for sPHENIX at RHIC

J. Kvapil, G. Borca-Tasciuc, H. Bossi +28

The RHIC interaction rate at sPHENIX will reach around 3 MHz in pp collisions and requires the detector readout to reject events by a factor of over 200 to fit the DAQ bandwidth of…

physics.ins-det2023★ 5 cited

Performance of the electromagnetic and hadronic prototype segments of the ALICE Forward Calorimeter

M. Aehle, J. Alme, C. Arata +74

We present the performance of a full-length prototype of the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal). The detector is composed of a silicon-tungsten electromagnetic sampling calorimeter…

physics.ins-det2023★ 3 cited

Label-free timing analysis of SiPM-based modularized detectors with physics-constrained deep learning

Pengcheng Ai, Le Xiao, Zhi Deng +6

Pulse timing is an important topic in nuclear instrumentation, with far-reaching applications from high energy physics to radiation imaging. While high-speed analog-to-digital conv…

physics.ins-det2023★ 22 cited

NvDEx-100 Conceptual Design Report

X. Cao, Y. Chang, K. Chen +34

Observing nuclear neutrinoless double beta (0vbb) decay would be a revolutionary result in particle physics. Observing such a decay would prove that the neutrinos are their own ant…

physics.ins-det2023★ 4 cited

GBT20, a 20.48 Gbps PAM4 Optical Transmitter Module for Particle Physics Experiments

B. Deng, L. Zhang, C. -P. Chao +14

We present a pluggable radiation-tolerant 4-level Pulse-Amplitude-Modulation (PAM4) optical transmitter module called GBT20 (Giga-Bit Transmitter at 20 Gbps) for particle-physics e…

physics.ins-det2023★ 64 cited

ALICE upgrades during the LHC Long Shutdown 2

ALICE Collaboration

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) has been conceived and constructed as a heavy-ion experiment at the LHC. During LHC Runs 1 and 2, it has produced a wide range of physics re…

physics.ins-det2023

The design and test results of A Giga-Bit Cable Receiver (GBCR) for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Pixel Detector

L. Zhang, D. Gong, T. Liu +12

This paper presents the design and test results of a Gigabit Cable Receiver ASIC called GBCR for the HL-LHC upgrade of the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) pixel detector. Three prototype…

physics.ins-det2022★ 47 cited

Digital Pixel Test Structures implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process

Gianluca Aglieri Rinella, Anton Andronic, Matias Antonelli +49

The ALICE ITS3 (Inner Tracking System 3) upgrade project and the CERN EP R&D on monolithic pixel sensors are investigating the feasibility of the Tower Partners Semiconductor Co. 6…

physics.ins-det2022★ 5 cited

PulseDL-II: A System-on-Chip Neural Network Accelerator for Timing and Energy Extraction of Nuclear Detector Signals

Pengcheng Ai, Zhi Deng, Yi Wang +3

Front-end electronics equipped with high-speed digitizers are being used and proposed for future nuclear detectors. Recent literature reveals that deep learning models, especially…

physics.ins-det2022★ 15 cited

Design and Simulated Performance of Calorimetry Systems for the ECCE Detector at the Electron Ion Collider

F. Bock, N. Schmidt, P. K. Wang +276

We describe the design and performance the calorimeter systems used in the ECCE detector design to achieve the overall performance specifications cost-effectively with careful cons…

physics.ins-det2022★ 10 cited

AI-assisted Optimization of the ECCE Tracking System at the Electron Ion Collider

C. Fanelli, Z. Papandreou, K. Suresh +272

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a cutting-edge accelerator facility that will study the nature of the "glue" that binds the building blocks of the visible matter in the universe…