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The Eos detector: a demonstrator of hybrid optical detection technology
Eos Collaboration, S. Arora, M. Askins +64
Eos is an R&D testbed for hybrid detector technologies, featuring state-of-the-art sub-ns photosensors, the first implementation of dichroicons in a large-scale demonstrator, and t…
Timing Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype
CMS HGCAL collaboration
This paper describes the experience with the calibration, reconstruction and evaluation of the timing capabilities of the CMS HGCAL prototype in the beam tests in 2018. The calibra…
EOS: a demonstrator of hybrid optical detector technology
T. Anderson, E. Anderssen, M. Askins +61
EOS is a technology demonstrator, designed to explore the capabilities of hybrid event detection technology, leveraging both Cherenkov and scintillation light simultaneously. With…
Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter prototype to charged pion beams of 20300 GeV/c
B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +454
The upgrade of the CMS experiment for the high luminosity operation of the LHC comprises the replacement of the current endcap calorimeter by a high granularity sampling calorimete…
Low Energy Neutrino Detection with a Portable Water-based Liquid Scintillator Detector
Ayse Bat, Emrah Tiras, Vincent Fischer +1
In this study, the conceptual design and physics simulations of a near-field Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) detector placed 100 meters from the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (…
Response of a CMS HGCAL silicon-pad electromagnetic calorimeter prototype to 20-300 GeV positrons
B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +385
The Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration is designing a new high-granularity endcap calorimeter, HGCAL, to be installed later this decade. As part of this development work, a protot…
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…
Construction and commissioning of CMS CE prototype silicon modules
B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +327
As part of its HL-LHC upgrade program, the CMS Collaboration is developing a High Granularity Calorimeter (CE) to replace the existing endcap calorimeters. The CE is a sampling cal…
The DAQ system of the 12,000 Channel CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype
B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +327
The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC will be upgraded to accommodate the 5-fold increase in the instantaneous luminosity expected at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). Concomitant wit…
Supernova neutrino detection in NOvA
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +199
The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment uses a pair of large, segmented, liquid-scintillator calorimeters to study neutrino oscillations, using GeV-scale neutrinos from the Ferm…
Water-based Liquid Scintillator Detector as a New Technology Testbed for Neutrino Studies in Turkey
Vincent Fischer, Emrah Tiras
This study investigates the deployment of a medium-scale neutrino detector near Turkey's first nuclear power plant, the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. The aim of this detector is to b…
Scintillation Timing Characteristics of Common Plastics for Radiation Detection Excited With 120 GeV Protons
Burak Bilki, Nilay Bostan, Ohannes Kamer Köseyan +2
The timing characteristics of scintillators must be understood in order to determine which applications they are appropriate for. Polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) and polyethylene te…
Measurement of Beam-Correlated Background Neutrons from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam in ANNIE Phase-I
Asheley R. Back, John F. Beacom, Tomaso Boschi +36
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) aims to make a unique measurement of neutron yield from neutrino-nucleus interactions and to perform R&D for the nex…
Theia: An advanced optical neutrino detector
M. Askins, Z. Bagdasarian, N. Barros +75
New developments in liquid scintillators, high-efficiency, fast photon detectors, and chromatic photon sorting have opened up the possibility for building a large-scale detector th…
Detector R&D for ANNIE and Future Neutrino Experiments
Emrah Tiras
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is designed to serve as a test bed for new detector technologies in future water and liquid scintillator based neutr…
Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +188
Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon event rates which has an opposite phase to the s…
Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE): Preliminary Results and Physics Phase Proposal
A. R. Back, J. F. Beacom, M. Bergevin +28
The R&D mission of the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is described in detail. ANNIE is: (1) an important measurement of neutrino-nucleus interactions f…
Commissioning of CMS Forward Hadron Calorimeters with Upgraded Multi-anode PMTs and μTCA Readout
Emrah Tiras, Burak Bilki, Yasar Onel
The high flux of charged particles interacting with the CMS Forward Hadron Calorimeter PMT windows introduced a significant background for the trigger and offline data analysis. Du…
Development of Radiation Hard Scintillators
Emrah Tiras, James Wetzel, Burak Bilki +2
Modern high-energy physics experiments are in ever increasing need for radiation hard scintillators and detectors. In this regard, we have studied various radiation-hard scintillat…
Dose rate effects in the radiation damage of the plastic scintillators of the CMS Hadron Endcap Calorimeter
HCAL collaboration
We present measurements of the reduction of light output by plastic scintillators irradiated in the CMS detector during the 8 TeV run of the Large Hadron Collider and show that the…
Radiation Damage and Recovery Properties of Common Plastics PEN (Polyethylene Naphthalate) and PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) Using a 137Cs Gamma Ray Source Up To 1 MRad and 10 MRad
J. Wetzel, E. Tiras, B. Bilki +2
Polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) and polyethylene teraphthalate (PET) are cheap and common polyester plastics used throughout the world in the manufacturing of bottled drinks, contai…
Characterization of photomultiplier tubes in a novel operation mode for Secondary Emission Ionization Calorimetry
E. Tiras, K. Dilsiz, H. Ogul +6
Hamamatsu single anode R7761 and multi-anode R5900-00-M16 Photomultiplier Tubes have been characterized for use in a Secondary Emission (SE) Ionization Calorimetry study. SE Ioniza…
Radiation Hard & High Light Yield Scintillator Search for CMS Phase II Upgrade
Emrah Tiras
The CMS detector at the LHC requires a major upgrade to cope with the higher instantaneous luminosity and the elevated radiation levels. The active media of the forward backing had…