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physics.ins-det2018★ 5 cited

The Mu2e calorimeter: quality assurance of production crystals and SiPMs

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +34

The Mu2e calorimeter is composed of two disks each containing 1348 pure CsI crystals, each crystal read out by two arrays of 6x6 mm2 monolithic SiPMs. The experimental requirements…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

The Klash Proposal: Status and Perspectives

C. Gatti, D. Alesini, D. Babusci +12

Recently some of the authors proposed a search for galactic axions with mass about 0.2~eV using a large volume resonant cavity, tens of cubic meters, cooled down to 4~K and imme…

physics.ins-det2018★ 4 cited

Performance of Thin Planar \textit{n-on-p} silicon pixels after HL-LHC radiation fluences

A. Ducourthial, M. Bomben, G. Calderini +13

The tracking detector of ATLAS, one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be upgraded in 2024-2026 to cope with the challenging environment conditions of the…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

Results from Pilot Run for MEG II Positron Timing Counter

M. Nakao, A. De Bari, M. Biasotti +15

The MEG II experiment at Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland will search for the lepton flavour violating muon decay, , with a sensitivity of impro…

physics.ins-det2018★ 26 cited

Test and characterization of 400 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD photomultiplier tubes for the ICARUS T600 detector

M. Babicz, L. Bagby, B. Baibussinov +35

ICARUS T600 will be operated as far detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab (USA), which foresees three liquid argon time projection chambers along the Booster…

physics.ins-det2018★ 15 cited

Magnetic coupling to the Advanced Virgo payloads and its impact on the low frequency sensitivity

A. Cirone, A. Chincarini, M. Neri +9

We study the electromagnetic coupling of the Advanced Virgo (AdV) Input Mirror Payload (IMP) in response to a slowly time-varying magnetic field. As the problem is not amenable to…

physics.ins-det2018★ 20 cited

Precision measurement of the structure of the CMS inner tracking system using nuclear interactions

CMS Collaboration

The structure of the CMS inner tracking system has been studied using nuclear interactions of hadrons striking its material. Data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass…

physics.ins-det2018★ 1 cited

The WaveDAQ integrated Trigger and Data Acquisition System for the MEG II experiment

Marco Francesconi, Alessandro Massimo Baldini, Fabrizio Cei +11

The WaveDAQ is a newly-designed digitization Trigger and Data AcQuisition system (TDAQ) allowing Multi-gigasample waveform recording on a large amount of channels (up to 16384) by…

physics.ins-det2018★ 10 cited

New read-out electronics for ICARUS-T600 liquid Argon TPC. Description, simulation and tests of the new front-end and ADC system

L. Bagby, B. Baibussinov, V. Bellini +42

The ICARUS T600, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) detector mainly devoted to neutrino physics, underwent a major overhauling at CERN in 2016-2017, which included al…

physics.ins-det2018★ 15 cited

Intrinsic mirror noise in Fabry-Perot based polarimeters: the case for the measurement of vacuum magnetic birefringence

G. Zavattini, F. Della Valle, A. Ejlli +5

Although experimental efforts have been active for about 30 years now, a direct laboratory observation of vacuum magnetic birefringence, an effect due to vacuum fluctuations, still…

physics.ins-det2018★ 12 cited

Gas Distribution and Monitoring for the Drift Chamber of the MEG-II Experiment

A. M. Baldini, E. Baracchini, G. Cavoto +22

The reconstruction of the positron trajectory in the MEG-II experiment searching for the decay uses a cylindrical drift chamber operated with a helium-isobutane gas…

physics.ins-det2018★ 528 cited

Performance of the CMS muon detector and muon reconstruction with proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The CMS muon detector system, muon reconstruction software, and high-level trigger underwent significant changes in 2013-2014 in preparation for running at higher LHC collision ene…

physics.ins-det2018★ 14 cited

Quality Assurance on Un-Doped CsI Crystals for the Mu2e Experiment

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +34

The Mu2e experiment is constructing a calorimeter consisting of 1,348 undoped CsI crystals in two disks. Each crystal has a dimension of 34 x 34 x 200 mm, and is readout by a large…

physics.ins-det2018★ 7 cited

The Mu2e undoped CsI crystal calorimeter

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +32

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violating conversion of a muon to an electron in an atomic field. The Mu2e detector is composed of a tracker,…

physics.ins-det2018★ 30 cited

Design and status of the Mu2e crystal calorimeter

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +32

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab searches for the charged-lepton flavour violating (CLFV) conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus, with a…

physics.ins-det2018★ 10 cited

The Mu2e Calorimeter Final Technical Design Report

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +37

Since the first version of the Mu2e TDR released at the beginning of 2015, the Mu2e Calorimeter system has undergone a long list of changes to arrive to its final design. These cha…

physics.ins-det2018★ 2 cited

Searching for galactic axions through magnetized media: QUAX status report

G. Ruoso, D. Alesini, C. Braggio +15

The current status of the QUAX R\&D program is presented. QUAX is a feasibility study for a detection of axion as dark matter based on the coupling to the electrons. The relevant s…

physics.ins-det2018★ 24 cited

Electroluminescence pulse shape and electron diffusion in liquid argon measured in a dual-phase TPC

P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +163

We report the measurement of the longitudinal diffusion constant in liquid argon with the DarkSide-50 dual-phase time projection chamber. The measurement is performed at drift elec…

physics.ins-det2018★ 308 cited

The design of the MEG II experiment

A. M. Baldini, E. Baracchini, C. Bemporad +72

The MEG experiment, designed to search for the mu+->e+ gamma decay at a 10^-13 sensitivity level, completed data taking in 2013. In order to increase the sensitivity reach of the e…