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physics.ins-det2014★ 11 cited

An aerogel Cherenkov detector for multi-GeV photon detection with low sensitivity to neutrons

Y. Maeda, N. Kawasaki, T. Masuda +10

We describe a novel photon detector which operates under an intense flux of neutrons. It is composed of lead-aerogel sandwich counter modules. Its salient features are high photon…

physics.ins-det2014★ 13 cited

Measurement of the muon beam direction and muon flux for the T2K neutrino experiment

K. Suzuki, S. Aoki, A. Ariga +30

The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) neutrino experiment measures neutrino oscillations by using an almost pure muon neutrino beam produced at the J-PARC accelerator facility. The T2K muon m…

physics.ins-det2014★ 3 cited

Assembly and bench testing of a spiral fiber tracker for the J-PARC TREK/E36 experiment

Makoto Tabata, Sébastien Bianchin, Michael D. Hasinoff +12

This study presents the recent progress made in developing a spiral fiber tracker (SFT) for use in the experiment TREK/E36 planned at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex.…

physics.ins-det2014★ 41 cited

LBNO-DEMO: Large-scale neutrino detector demonstrators for phased performance assessment in view of a long-baseline oscillation experiment

L. Agostino, B. Andrieu, R. Asfandiyarov +111

In June 2012, an Expression of Interest for a long-baseline experiment (LBNO) has been submitted to the CERN SPSC. LBNO considers three types of neutrino detector technologies: a d…

physics.ins-det2014★ 6 cited

Photon-Veto Counters at the Outer Edge of the Endcap Calorimeter for the KOTO Experiment

T. Matsumura, T. Shinkawa, H. Yokota +17

The Outer-Edge Veto (OEV) counter subsystem for extra-photon detection from the backgrounds for the? decay is located at the outer edge of the endcap Cs…

physics.ins-det2014★ 5 cited

Design and performance of coded aperture optical elements for the CESR-TA x-ray beam size monitor

J. P. Alexander, A. Chatterjee, C. Conolly +11

We describe the design and performance of optical elements for an x-ray beam size monitor (xBSM), a device measuring and beam sizes in the CESR-TA storage ring. The dev…

physics.ins-det2014★ 48 cited

Enhancement of muonium emission rate from silica aerogel with a laser ablated surface

G. A. Beer, Y. Fujiwara, S. Hirota +24

Emission of muonium () atoms from a laser-processed aerogel surface into vacuum was studied for the first time. Laser ablation was used to create hole-like regions with dia…

physics.ins-det2014★ 14 cited

Silica aerogel radiator for use in the A-RICH system utilized in the Belle II experiment

Makoto Tabata, Ichiro Adachi, Nao Hamada +17

This paper presents recent progress in the development and mass production of large-area hydrophobic silica aerogels for use as radiators in the aerogel-based ring-imaging Cherenko…

physics.ins-det2014★ 12 cited

Extraction Method of Fine Granular Performance from Scintillator Strip Electromagnetic Calorimeter

Katsushige Kotera, Daniel Jeans, Akiya Miyamoto +1

We describe an algorithm which has been developed to extract fine granularity information from an electromagnetic calorimeter with strip-based readout. Such a calorimeter, based on…

physics.ins-det2014★ 66 cited

Reactor antineutrino monitoring with a plastic scintillator array as a new safeguards method

S. Oguri, Y. Kuroda, Y. Kato +4

We developed a segmented reactor-antineutrino detector made of plastic scintillators for application as a tool in nuclear safeguards inspection and performed mostly unmanned field…

physics.ins-det2014★ 11 cited

Cosmic ray tests of a GEM-based TPC prototype operated in Ar-CF4-isobutane gas mixtures: II

M. Kobayashi, R. Yonamine, T. Tomioka +19

The spatial resolution along the pad-row direction was measured with a GEM-based TPC prototype for the future linear collider experiment in order to understand its performance for…

physics.ins-det2014★ 1 cited

Activity report of ILD-TPC Asia group

Y. Kato, R. Yonamine, P. Gros +10

The purpose of ILD-TPC Asia group is realization of high precision Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) as a central tracker in International Linear Col…

physics.ins-det2014★ 1 cited

Study of Tracking and Flavor Tagging with FPCCD Vertex Detector

Tatsuya Mori, Daisuke Kamai, Akiya Miyamoto +5

One of the major physics goals at the ILC is the precise measurement of the Higgs coupling constants to b-quarks and c-quarks. To achieve this measurement, we need a high-performan…

physics.ins-det2014★ 11 cited

High-resolution kaonic-atom x-ray spectroscopy with transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeters

S. Okada, D. A. Bennett, W. B. Doriese +9

We are preparing for an ultra-high resolution x-ray spectroscopy of kaonic atoms using an x-ray spectrometer based on an array of superconducting transition-edge-sensor microcalori…

physics.ins-det2014★ 274 cited

NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: beams and detector system

N. Abgrall, O. Andreeva, A. Aduszkiewicz +145

NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a multi-purpose experimental facility to study hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisio…