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Characterization of Spurious Charge in SENSEI Skipper-CCDs
Yikai Wu, Ansh Desai, Sho Uemura +16
Skipper Charge-Coupled Devices (Skipper-CCDs) are a leading technology in the search for sub-GeV dark matter and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. A key background for…
From Light to Energy: Machine Learning Algorithms for Position and Energy Deposition Estimation in Scintillator-SiPM detectors
Yoav Simhon, Alex Segal, Ofer Amrani +1
Scintillator-SiPM Particle Detectors (SSPDs) are compact, low-power devices with applications including particle physics, underground tomography, cosmic-ray studies, and space inst…
A compact, low-power epithermal neutron counter for lunar water detection
Julian Cuevas-Zepeda, Phoenix Alpine, Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara +7
The detection and characterization of lunar water are critical for enabling sustainable human and robotic exploration of the Moon. Orbital neutron spectrometers, such as instrument…
Atmospheric muon flux suppression at potential new low-radiation underground physics laboratory in Israel
Nadav Hargittai, Igor Zolkin, Yiftah Silver +5
The residual atmospheric muon flux was measured at a candidate site for a new underground, low-radiation physics laboratory beneath the Kokhav HaYarden national park in Israel. Loc…
MATHUSLA: An External Long-Lived Particle Detector to Maximize the Discovery Potential of the HL-LHC
Branden Aitken, Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez +70
We present the current status of the MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles) long-lived particle (LLP) detector at the HL-LHC, covering the design, f…
Conceptual Design Report for the MATHUSLA Long-Lived Particle Detector near CMS
Branden Aitken, Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez +70
We present the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles) long-lived particle detector at the HL-LHC, covering th…
High-End Space Electronics: Active Shielding to Mitigate Catastrophic Single-Event Effects
Yoav Simhony, Alexander Segal, Ofer Amrani +1
Operating electronic systems in space environments presents significant challenges due to continuous exposure to cosmic, solar, and trapped radiation, which can induce catastrophic…
Spaceborne COTS-Capsule Hodoscope: Detecting and Characterizing Particle Radiation
Yoav Simhony, Alex Segal, Yuri Orlov +3
The COTS-Capsule Spaceborne hodoscope was launched into low earth orbit aboard the International Space Station and operated during 2021-2022. The primary objectives of the payload…
Scintillator-SiPM Detector for Tracking and Energy Deposition Measurements
Yoav Simhony, Alex Segal, Yuri Orlov +2
An innovative particle detector that offers a compelling combination of cost-effectiveness and high accuracy is introduced. The detector features plastic scintillators paired with…
Skipper-CCD Sensors for the Oscura Experiment: Requirements and Preliminary Tests
Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara, Santiago Perez, Juan Estrada +52
Oscura is a proposed multi-kg skipper-CCD experiment designed for a dark matter (DM) direct detection search that will reach unprecedented sensitivity to sub-GeV DM-electron intera…
Muon Detector for Underground Tomography
Yan Benhammou, Erez Etzion, Gilad Mizrachi +3
We utilise muons from cosmic ray to explore hidden underground archaeological structures. Presented here is the design, simulation studies and first laboratory results of a compact…
Constraints on the electron-hole pair creation energy and Fano factor below 150 eV from Compton scattering in a Skipper-CCD
A. M. Botti, S. Uemura, G. Fernandez Moroni +9
Fully-depleted thick silicon Skipper-charge-coupled devices (Skipper-CCDs) are an important technology to probe neutrino and light-dark-matter interactions due to their sub-electro…
SENSEI: Characterization of Single-Electron Events Using a Skipper-CCD
Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch, Ana Botti +22
We use a science-grade Skipper Charge Coupled Device (Skipper-CCD) operating in a low-radiation background environment to develop a semi-empirical model that characterizes the orig…
An Update to the Letter of Intent for MATHUSLA: Search for Long-Lived Particles at the HL-LHC
Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez, Austin Ball +80
We report on recent progress in the design of the proposed MATHUSLA Long Lived Particle (LLP) detector for the HL-LHC, updating the information in the original Letter of Intent (Lo…
The MATHUSLA Test Stand
Maf Alidra, Cristiano Alpigiani, Austin Ball +23
The rate of muons from LHC collisions reaching the surface above the ATLAS interaction point is measured and compared with expected rates from decays of and bosons and…
Liquid Scintillators for Large Area Tracking System
Yan Benhammou, Erez Etzion, Gilad Mizrachi +2
We report on studies of non-toxic scintillating liquid useful for large surface detectors. Arrays of liquid scintillators offer a rather simple tool for detecting charged particles…
A Letter of Intent for MATHUSLA: a dedicated displaced vertex detector above ATLAS or CMS
Cristiano Alpigiani, Austin Ball, Liron Barak +61
In this Letter of Intent (LOI) we propose the construction of MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles), a dedicated large-volume displaced vertex dete…
Operation and performance of microhexcavity pixel detector in gas discharge and avalanche mode
A. Mulski, Y. Benhammou, J. W. Chapman +10
The Microhexcavity Panel ( muHex) is a novel gaseous micropattern particle detector comprised of a dense array of close-packed hexagonal pixels, each operating as an independent de…
Performance of a First Microhexcavity Plasma Panel Detector with Muons
Alexis Mulski, Yan Benhamou, Erez Etzion +6
The microhexcavity plasma panel detector is a type of gaseous particle detector consisting of a close-packed array of millimeter-size hexagonal cells. The cells are biased to opera…
Microhexcavity Plasma Panel Detectors
Alexis Mulski, Daniel S. Levin, Yan Benhamou +8
Plasma panel detectors are a variant of micropattern detectors that are sensitive to ionizing radiation. They are motivated by the design and operation of plasma display panels. Th…
First results with a microcavity plasma panel detector
R. Ball, M. Ben-Moshe, Y. Benhammou +11
A new type of gaseous micropattern particle detector based on a closed-cell microcavity plasma panel sensor is reported. The first device was fabricated with 1 x 1 x 2 mm cells. It…
Development of a plasma panel radiation detector
R. Ball, J. R. Beene, M. Ben-Moshe +15
This article reports on the development and experimental results of commercial plasma display panels adapted for their potential use as micropattern gas radiation detectors. The pl…
Plasma panel-based radiation detectors
Peter Friedman, Robert Ball, James Beene +11
The plasma panel sensor (PPS) is a gaseous micropattern radiation detector under current development. It has many operational and fabrication principles common to plasma display pa…
Plasma Panel Sensors for Particle and Beam Detection
Peter S. Friedman, Robert Ball, James R. Beene +12
The plasma panel sensor (PPS) is an inherently digital, high gain, novel variant of micropattern gas detectors inspired by many operational and fabrication principles common to pla…