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most citedMeasurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHC collision data at 7 and 8 TeV

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physics.ins-det2020★ 20 cited

Performance of the upgraded PreProcessor of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger

ATLAS Collaboration

The PreProcessor of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger prepares the analogue trigger signals sent from the ATLAS calorimeters by digitising, synchronising, and calibrating them…

physics.ins-det2020★ 322 cited

Performance of the ATLAS muon triggers in Run 2

ATLAS Collaboration

The performance of the ATLAS muon trigger system is evaluated with proton-proton () and heavy-ion (HI) collision data collected in Run 2 during 2015-2018 at the Large Hadron Co…

physics.ins-det2020★ 29 cited

SiPM-matrix readout of two-phase argon detectors using electroluminescence in the visible and near infrared range

The DarkSide collaboration, C. E. Aalseth, S. Abdelhakim +312

Proportional electroluminescence (EL) in noble gases is used in two-phase detectors for dark matter searches to record (in the gas phase) the ionization signal induced by particle…

physics.ins-det2019★ 337 cited

ATLAS data quality operations and performance for 2015-2018 data-taking

ATLAS Collaboration

The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider reads out particle collision data from over 100 million electronic channels at a rate of approximately kHz, with a recording r…

physics.ins-det2019★ 13 cited

The Magnet of the Scattering and Neutrino Detector for the SHiP experiment at CERN

SHiP Collaboration

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment proposal at CERN demands a dedicated dipole magnet for its scattering and neutrino detector. This requires a very large volume to…

physics.ins-det2019★ 8 cited

Calibration of the CMS hadron calorimeters using proton-proton collision data at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Methods are presented for calibrating the hadron calorimeter system of the CMS detector at the LHC. The hadron calorimeters of the CMS experiment are sampling calorimeters of brass…

physics.ins-det2019★ 229 cited

Electron reconstruction and identification in the ATLAS experiment using the 2015 and 2016 LHC proton-proton collision data at = 13 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

Algorithms used for the reconstruction and identification of electrons in the central region of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are presented in this paper; t…

physics.ins-det2018★ 49 cited

The experimental facility for the Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS

SHiP Collaboration

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has shown that the CERN SPS accelerator with its 400 proton beam offers a unique opportunity to explore…

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★ 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★ 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★ 6 cited

Charge reconstruction in large-area photomultipliers

M. Grassi, M. Montuschi, M. Baldoncini +60

Large-area PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMT) allow to efficiently instrument Liquid Scintillator (LS) neutrino detectors, where large target masses are pivotal to compensate for neutrino…

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★ 16 cited

Performance of Multiplexed XY Resistive Micromegas detectors in a high intensity beam

D. Banerjee, V. Burtsev, A. Chumakov +38

We present the performance of multiplexed XY resistive Micromegas detectors tested in the CERN SPS 100 GeV/c electron beam at intensities up to 3.3 10 e/(s…

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★ 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★ 30 cited

High purity 100 GeV electron identification with synchrotron radiation

E. Depero, D. Banerjee, V. Burtsev +36

In high energy experiments such as active beam dump searches for rare decays and missing energy events, the beam purity is a crucial parameter. In this paper we present a technique…

physics.ins-det2017★ 38 cited

The active muon shield in the SHiP experiment

SHiP collaboration, A. Akmete, A. Alexandrov +229

The SHiP experiment is designed to search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 GeV/c proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. An ess…

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…

physics.ins-det2016★ 4 cited

Test beam studies of the TRD prototype filled with different gas mixtures based on Xe, Kr, and Ar

E Celebi, T. Brooks, M. Joos +14

Towards the end of LHC Run1, gas leaks were observed in some parts of the Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) of ATLAS. Due to these leaks, primary Xenon based gas mixture was repla…

physics.ins-det2016★ 5 cited

Some results of test beam studies of Transition Radiation Detector prototypes at CERN

V. O. Tikhomirov, T. Brooks, M. Joos +14

Operating conditions and challenging demands of present and future accelerator experiments result in new requirements on detector systems. There are many ongoing activities aimed t…

physics.ins-det2016★ 1 cited

Measuring the Magnetic Flux Density with Flux Loops and Hall Probes in the CMS Magnet Flux Return Yoke

B. Curé, N. Amapane, A. Ball +6

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general purpose detector, designed to run at the highest luminosity at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its distinctive features include a…

physics.ins-det2016★ 119 cited

Reconstruction of primary vertices at the ATLAS experiment in Run 1 proton-proton collisions at the LHC

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper presents the method and performance of primary vertex reconstruction in proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment during Run 1 of the LHC. The studie…