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physics.ins-det2017★ 26 cited

Fast neutron sensitivity of neutron detectors based on boron-10 converter layers

G. Mauri, F. Messi, K. Kanaki +4

In the last few years many detector technologies for thermal neutron detection have been developed in order to face the shortage of 3He, which is now much less available and more e…

physics.ins-det2017★ 22 cited

An algorithm to resolve γ-rays from charged cosmic rays with DAMPE

Z. L. Xu, K. K. Duan, Z. Q. Shen +18

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), also known as Wukong in China, launched on December 17, 2015, is a new high energy cosmic ray and γ-ray satellite-borne observatory in sp…

physics.ins-det2017★ 635 cited

Identification of heavy-flavour jets with the CMS detector in pp collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Many measurements and searches for physics beyond the standard model at the LHC rely on the efficient identification of heavy-flavour jets, i.e. jets originating from bottom or cha…

physics.ins-det2017★ 37 cited

Internal alignment and position resolution of the silicon tracker of DAMPE determined with orbit data

A. Tykhonov, G. Ambrosi, R. Asfandiyarov +40

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-borne particle detector designed to probe electrons and gamma-rays in the few GeV to 10 TeV energy range, as well as cosmic-ray…

physics.ins-det2017★ 613 cited

DarkSide-20k: A 20 Tonne Two-Phase LAr TPC for Direct Dark Matter Detection at LNGS

C. E. Aalseth, F. Acerbi, P. Agnes +282

Building on the successful experience in operating the DarkSide-50 detector, the DarkSide Collaboration is going to construct DarkSide-20k, a direct WIMP search detector using a tw…

physics.ins-det2017★ 8 cited

The Cylindrical GEM Inner Tracker of the BESIII experiment: prototype test beam results

L. Lavezzi, M. Alexeev, A. Amoroso +49

A cylindrical GEM detector is under development, to serve as an upgraded inner tracker at the BESIII spectrometer. It will consist of three layers of cylindrically-shaped triple GE…

physics.ins-det2017★ 15 cited

The Electronics, Trigger and Data Acquisition System for the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber of the DarkSide-50 Search for Dark Matter

DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +177

The DarkSide-50 experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso is a search for dark matter using a dual phase time projection chamber with 50 kg of low radioactivity argon a…

physics.ins-det2017★ 38 cited

Simulation of argon response and light detection in the DarkSide-50 dual phase TPC

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +147

A Geant4-based Monte Carlo package named G4DS has been developed to simulate the response of DarkSide-50, an experiment operating since 2013 at LNGS, designed to detect WIMP intera…

physics.ins-det2017★ 10 cited

A custom readout electronics for the BESIII CGEM detector

M. Da Rocha Rolo, M. Alexeev, A. Amoroso +53

For the upgrade of the inner tracker of the BESIII spectrometer, planned for 2018, a lightweight tracker based on an innovative Cylindrical Gas Electron Multiplier (CGEM) detector…

physics.ins-det2017★ 995 cited

Particle-flow reconstruction and global event description with the CMS detector

CMS Collaboration

The CMS apparatus was identified, a few years before the start of the LHC operation at CERN, to feature properties well suited to particle-flow (PF) reconstruction: a highly-segmen…

physics.ins-det2017

Operating Gravitational Wave Detectors far from equilibrium

Igor Neri, Miquel López-Suárez, Luca Gammaitoni

Tiny vibrations of mechanical structures are the main limiting cause in a number of high sensitivity measurement apparatus, chief among them the most sensitive displacement apparat…

physics.ins-det2017★ 8 cited

Test Beam Performance Measurements for the Phase I Upgrade of the CMS Pixel Detector

M. Dragicevic, M. Friedl, J. Hrubec +481

A new pixel detector for the CMS experiment was built in order to cope with the instantaneous luminosities anticipated for the Phase~I Upgrade of the LHC. The new CMS pixel detecto…

physics.ins-det2017★ 14 cited

Charge reconstruction study of the DAMPE Silicon-Tungsten Tracker with ion beams

Rui Qiao, Wen-Xi Peng, Dong-Ya Guo +12

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is one of the four satellites within Strategic Pioneer Research Program in Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). DAMPE ca…

physics.ins-det2017★ 22 cited

Cryogenic Characterization of FBK RGB-HD SiPMs

C. E. Aalseth, F. Acerbi, P. Agnes +268

We report on the cryogenic characterization of Red Green Blue - High Density (RGB-HD) SiPMs developed at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) as part of the DarkSide program of dark matt…

physics.ins-det2017★ 41 cited

The Monte Carlo simulation of the Borexino detector

M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +97

We describe the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation package of the Borexino detector and discuss the agreement of its output with data. The Borexino MC 'ab initio' simulates the energy los…

physics.ins-det2017★ 240 cited

The Beam and detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN

NA62 collaboration

NA62 is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS dedicated to measurements of rare kaon decays. Such measurements, like the branching fraction of the $K^{+} \rightarrow π^{+} ν\ba…

physics.ins-det2017★ 68 cited

High-performance versatile setup for simultaneous Brillouin-Raman micro-spectroscopy

F. Scarponi, S. Mattana, S. Corezzi +13

Brillouin and Raman scattering spectroscopy are established techniques for the nondestructive contactless and label-free readout of mechanical, chemical and structural properties o…

physics.ins-det2017★ 1 cited

Mechanical stability of the CMS strip tracker measured with a laser alignment system

CMS Collaboration

The CMS tracker consists of 206 square meters of silicon strip sensors assembled on carbon fibre composite structures and is designed for operation in the temperature range from -2…