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physics.ins-det2017★ 490 cited

Discovery of a big void in Khufu's Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons

Kunihiro Morishima, Mitsuaki Kuno, Akira Nishio +31

The Great Pyramid or Khufu's Pyramid was built on the Giza Plateau (Egypt) during the IVth dynasty by the pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), who reigned from 2509 to 2483 BC. Despite being on…

physics.ins-det2017★ 18 cited

A compact imaging system with a CdTe double-sided strip detector for non-destructive analysis using negative muonic X-rays

Miho Katsuragawa, Motonobu Tampo, Koji Hamada +8

A CdTe double-sided strip detector (CdTe-DSD) is an ideal device for imaging and spectroscopic measure- ments in the hard X-ray range above 10 keV. Recent development enables us to…

physics.ins-det2017★ 13 cited

YUI and HANA: Control and Visualization Programs for HRC in J-PARC

Daichi Kawana, Minoru Soda, Masahiro Yoshida +9

We developed control and visualization programs, YUI and HANA, for High- Resolution Chopper spectrometer (HRC) installed at BL12 in MLF, J-PARC. YUI is a comprehensive program to c…

physics.ins-det2017★ 5 cited

Theoretical Calculation of coherent Laue-case conversion between X rays and ALPs for an X-ray LSW experiment

T. Yamaji, T. Yamazaki, K. Tamasaku +1

Single crystals have high atomic electric fields as much as 10^{11} V/m, which correspond to magnetic fields of \sim 10^3 T. These fields can be utilized to convert X rays into Axi…

physics.ins-det2017★ 20 cited

Mirror actuation design for the interferometer control of the KAGRA gravitational wave telescope

Yuta Michimura, Tomofumi Shimoda, Takahiro Miyamoto +36

KAGRA is a 3-km cryogenic interferometric gravitational wave telescope located at an underground site in Japan. In order to achieve its target sensitivity, the relative positions o…

physics.ins-det2017★ 8 cited

The SeaQuest Spectrometer at Fermilab

SeaQuest Collaboration, C. A. Aidala, J. R. Arrington +95

The SeaQuest spectrometer at Fermilab was designed to detect oppositely-charged pairs of muons (dimuons) produced by interactions between a 120 GeV proton beam and liquid hydrogen,…

physics.ins-det2017★ 14 cited

Evaluation of commercial nickel-phosphorus coating for ultracold neutron guides using a pinhole bottling method

R. W. Pattie, E. Adamek, T. Brenner +24

We report on the evaluation of commercial electroless nickel phosphorus (NiP) coatings for ultracold neutron (UCN) transport and storage. The material potential of 50~m thick Ni…

physics.ins-det2017★ 19 cited

Subnanosecond Time-to-Digital Converter Implemented in a Kintex-7 FPGA

Yuta Sano, Yasuyuki Horii, Masahiro Ikeno +3

Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are used in various fields, including high-energy physics. One advantage of implementing TDCs in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is the fle…