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physics.ins-det2021★ 30 cited

The tracking detector of the FASER experiment

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, Claire Antel +77

FASER is a new experiment designed to search for new light weakly-interacting long-lived particles (LLPs) and study high-energy neutrino interactions in the very forward region of…

physics.ins-det2021★ 8 cited

Characterisation of signal-induced noise in Hamamatsu R11265 Multianode Photomultiplier Tubes

M. Andreotti, S. Capelli, G. Cavallero +26

Signal-induced noise is observed in Hamamatsu R11265 Multianode Photomultiplier Tubes, manifesting up to several microseconds after the single photoelectron response signal and loc…

physics.ins-det2021★ 12 cited

Optical and mechanical properties of ion-beam-sputtered MgF thin films for gravitational-wave interferometers

M. Granata, A. Amato, M. Bischi +14

Brownian thermal noise associated with highly reflective coatings is a fundamental limit for several precision experiments, including gravitational-wave detectors. Research is curr…

physics.ins-det2021★ 25 cited

The trigger and data acquisition system of the FASER experiment

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, Elham Amin Mansour +81

The FASER experiment is a new small and inexpensive experiment that is placed 480 meters downstream of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC. FASER is designed to capture decays of…

physics.ins-det2021★ 9 cited

Operation and performance of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker in LHC Run 2

ATLAS Collaboration

The semiconductor tracker (SCT) is one of the tracking systems for charged particles in the ATLAS detector. It consists of 4088 silicon strip sensor modules. During Run 2 (20152…

physics.ins-det2021★ 26 cited

Implementation and Optimization of the PTOLEMY Transverse Drift Electromagnetic Filter

A. Apponi, M. G. Betti, M. Borghesi +53

The PTOLEMY transverse drift filter is a new concept to enable precision analysis of the energy spectrum of electrons near the tritium beta-decay endpoint. This paper details the i…

physics.ins-det2021★ 2 cited

CUORE Opens the Door to Tonne-scale Cryogenics Experiments

CUORE Collaboration, D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino +206

The past few decades have seen major developments in the design and operation of cryogenic particle detectors. This technology offers an extremely good energy resolution - comparab…

physics.ins-det2021

Embedded software developments in KM3NeT phase I

V. van Beveren, D. Real, T. Chiarusi +10

The KM3NeT Collaboration has already produced more than one thousand acquisition boards, used for building two deep-sea neutrino detectors at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, w…

physics.ins-det2021★ 13 cited

Development of a Josephson junction based single photon microwave detector for axion detection experiments

D Alesini, D Babusci, C Barone +30

Josephson junctions, in appropriate configurations, can be excellent candidates for detection of single photons in the microwave frequency band. Such possibility has been recently…

physics.ins-det2021★ 31 cited

Calibration of the liquid argon ionization response to low energy electronic and nuclear recoils with DarkSide-50

The DarkSide collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +136

DarkSide-50 has demonstrated the high potential of dual-phase liquid argon time projection chambers in exploring interactions of WIMPs in the GeV/c mass range. The technique, b…

physics.ins-det2021★ 27 cited

Status of the SIMP Project: Toward the Single Microwave Photon Detection

David Alesini, Danilo Babusci, Carlo Barone +30

The Italian institute for nuclear physics (INFN) has financed the SIMP project (2019-2021) in order to strengthen its skills and technologies in the field of meV detectors with the…

physics.ins-det2021

Performance of the ReD TPC, a novel double-phase LAr detector with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout

P. Agnes, S. Albergo, I. Albuquerque +64

A double-phase argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC), with an active mass of 185 g, has been designed and constructed for the Recoil Directionality (ReD) experiment. The aim of the R…

physics.ins-det2021

Streaming Readout of the CLAS12 Forward Tagger Using TriDAS and JANA2

Fabrizio Ameli, Marco Battaglieri, Mariangela Bondí +12

An effort is underway to develop streaming readout data acquisition system for the CLAS12 detector in Jefferson Lab's experimental Hall-B. Successful beam tests were performed in t…

physics.ins-det2021★ 20 cited

High sensitivity characterization of an ultra-high purity NaI(Tl) crystal scintillator with the SABRE proof-of-principle detector

F. Calaprice, S. Copello, I. Dafinei +23

We present new results on the radiopurity of a 3.4-kg NaI(Tl) crystal scintillator operated in the SABRE proof-of-principle detector setup. The amount of potassium contamination, d…

physics.ins-det2021★ 9 cited

Coded masks for imaging of neutrino events

M. Andreotti, P. Bernardini, A. Bersani +76

The capture of scintillation light emitted by liquid Argon and Xenon under molecular excitations by charged particles is still a challenging task. Here we present a first attempt t…

physics.ins-det2021★ 12 cited

Background identification in cryogenic calorimeters through delayed coincidences

O. Azzolini, J. W. Beeman, F. Bellini +42

Localization and modeling of radioactive contaminations is a challenge that ultra-low background experiments are constantly facing. These are fundamental steps both to extract scie…

physics.ins-det2021★ 16 cited

Final results of CALDER: Kinetic inductance light detectors to search for rare events

Laura Cardani, Nicola Casali, Ivan Colantoni +6

The next generation of bolometric experiments searching for rave events, in particular for the neutrino-less double beta decay, needs fast, high-sensitivity and easy-to-scale cryog…

physics.ins-det2021★ 5 cited

The cosmic muon and detector simulation framework of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment

M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini, L. Baldini +60

This paper describes the simulation framework of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment. EEE is a network of cosmic muon trackers, each made of three Multi-gap Resistive Plate…

physics.ins-det2021★ 14 cited

Test beam characterization of sensor prototypes for the CMS Barrel MIP Timing Detector

R. Abbott, A. Abreu, F. Addesa +196

The MIP Timing Detector will provide additional timing capabilities for detection of minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) at CMS during the High Luminosity LHC era, improving event re…

physics.ins-det2021★ 28 cited

Exploration of co-sputtered TaO-ZrO thin films for gravitational-wave detectors

M. Abernathy, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva +45

We report on the development and extensive characterization of co-sputtered tantala-zirconia thin films, with the goal to decrease coating Brownian noise in present and future grav…

physics.ins-det2021★ 15 cited

Performance of the ATLAS RPC detector and Level-1 muon barrel trigger at TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) employs a trigger system consisting of a first-level hardware trigger (L1) and a software-based high-level trigger. The L1 m…

physics.ins-det2021★ 10 cited

Progress in the development of TES microcalorimeter detectors suitable for neutrino mass measurement

A. Giachero, B. Alpert, D. T. Becker +19

The HOLMES experiment will perform a precise calorimetric measurement of the end point of the Electron Capture (EC) decay spectrum of 163Ho in order to extract information on neutr…

physics.ins-det2021★ 30 cited

Optical and mechanical properties of ion-beam-sputtered NbO and TiO-NbO thin films for gravitational-wave interferometers

N. Demos, M. Granata, S. Gras +10

Brownian thermal noise associated with highly-reflective mirror coatings is a fundamental limit for several precision experiments, including gravitational-wave detectors. Recently,…

physics.ins-det2021★ 8 cited

A novel approach for nearly-coincident events rejection

M. Borghesi, M. De Gerone, M. Faverzani +6

We present a novel technique, called DSVP (Discrimination through Singular Vectors Projections), to discriminate spurious events within a dataset. The purpose of this paper is to l…