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Performance of the High-Angle Time Projection Chambers in the Upgraded T2K Off-Axis Near Detector
K. Aivazelis, D. Attié, P. Billoir +94
The off-axis magnetic near detector of the T2K experiment has undergone a significant upgrade, including the construction and installation of two new Time Projection Chambers featu…
Characterization of the Electronic Noise in the Readout of Resistive Micromegas in the High-Angle Time Projection Chambers of the T2K Experiment
D. Attié, P. Billoir, G. Bortolato +44
The two high-angle Time Projection Chambers of the T2K experiment are equipped with a new readout system based on resistive Micromegas detector technology, and utilize custom-made…
Beam-induced backgrounds measured in the ATLAS detector during local gas injection into the LHC beam vacuum
ATLAS Collaboration
Inelastic beam-gas collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), within a few hundred metres of the ATLAS experiment, are known to give the dominant contribution to beam backgroun…
Using Micromegas detectors for direct dark matter searches: challenges and perspectives
K. Altenmueller, . Antolin, D. Calvet +27
Gas time projection chambers (TPCs) with Micromegas pixelated readouts are being used in dark matter searches and other rare event searches, due to their potential in terms of low…
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…
Improving topological cluster reconstruction using calorimeter cell timing in ATLAS
ATLAS Collaboration
Clusters of topologically connected calorimeter cells around cells with large absolute signal-to-noise ratio (topo-clusters) are the basis for calorimeter signal reconstruction in…
The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: A Description of the Detector Configuration for Run 3
ATLAS Collaboration
The ATLAS detector is installed in its experimental cavern at Point 1 of the CERN Large Hadron Collider. During Run 2 of the LHC, a luminosity of $\mathcal{L}=2\times 10^{34}\mathr…
Laser calibration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter during LHC Run 2
M. N. Agaras, A. Ahmad, A. Blanco +37
This article reports the laser calibration of the hadronic Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment in the LHC Run 2 data campaign. The upgraded Laser II calibration system is desc…
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…
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…
Characterization of resistive Micromegas detectors for the upgrade of the T2K Near Detector Time Projection Chambers
D. Attié, M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, P. Billoir +58
The second phase of the T2K experiment is expected to start data taking in autumn 2022. An upgrade of the Near Detector (ND280) is under development and includes the construction o…
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…
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…
J-PARC Neutrino Beamline Upgrade Technical Design Report
K. Abe, H. Aihara, A. Ajmi +381
In this document, technical details of the upgrade plan of the J-PARC neutrino beamline for the extension of the T2K experiment are described. T2K has proposed to accumulate data c…
Performances of a resistive MicroMegas module for the Time Projection Chambers of the T2K Near Detector upgrade
D. Attie, M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, J. Boix +53
An upgrade of the Near Detector of the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, ND280, has been proposed. This upgrade will include two new Time Projection Chambers, each…
Topological background discrimination in the PandaX-III neutrinoless double beta decay experiment
J Galan, X Chen, H Du +62
The PandaX-III experiment plans to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0) of Xe in the China JinPing underground Laboratory (CJPL). The experiment will use a hi…
The High Voltage distribution system of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter and its performance during data taking
D. Calvet, S. Calvet, R. Chadelas +14
This article documents the characteristics of the high voltage (HV) system of the hadronic calorimeter TileCal of the ATLAS experiment. Such a system is suitable to supply reliable…
Design and commissioning of a 600 L Time Projection Chamber with Microbulk Micromegas
Heng Lin, Denis Calvet, Lei Chen +23
We report the design, construction, and initial commissioning results of a large high pressure gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with Micromegas modules for charge readout. The…
The Laser calibration of the Atlas Tile Calorimeter during the LHC run 1
ATLAS Tile Calorimeter system
This article describes the Laser calibration system of the Atlas hadronic Tile Calorimeter that has been used during the run 1 of the LHC. First, the stability of the system associ…
Accurate gamma and MeV-electron track reconstruction with an ultra-low diffusion Xenon/TMA TPC at 10 atmospheres
Diego Gonzalez-Diaz, V. Alvarez, F. I. G. Borges +80
We report the performance of a 10 atm Xenon/trimethylamine time projection chamber (TPC) for the detection of X-rays (30 keV) and gamma-rays (0.511-1.275 MeV) in conjunction with t…
Low Background Micromegas in CAST
J. G. Garza, S. Aune, D. Calvet +22
Solar axions could be converted into x-rays inside the strong magnetic field of an axion helioscope, triggering the detection of this elusive particle. Low background x-ray detecto…
Description and commissioning of NEXT-MM prototype: first results from operation in a Xenon-Trimethylamine gas mixture
NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, F. Aznar +82
A technical description of NEXT-MM and its commissioning and first performance is reported. Having an active volume of ~35 cm drift 28 cm diameter, it constitutes the larg…
Characterization of a medium size Xe/TMA TPC instrumented with microbulk Micromegas, using low-energy -rays
The NEXT collaboration, V. Alvarez, F. I. G. M. Borges +87
NEXT-MM is a general-purpose high pressure (10 bar, l active volume) Xenon-based TPC, read out in charge mode with an 8 cm 8 cm-segmented 700 cm plane (1152 ch…