New developments in the field of instrumentation for high energy physics experiments are being carried out worldwide by several research groups in the 28 nm CMOS technology. In the design of pixel readout circuits, such a technology node promises to push more intelligence at pixel level, while higher bandwidths can be achieved in I/O circuits thanks to improved transition frequencies of the...
This contribution presents the development of a hadronic calorimeter made of resistive Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) designed for an experiment at a multi-TeV Muon collider.
The Muon collider has been proposed as a powerful tool to explore the Standard Model, aiming for precise Higgs boson coupling measurements and searches for new physics at the TeV scale, requiring accurate event...
In large-scale physical experiments, the experimental devices are widely distributed in space and have a large number of end nodes. To ensure that all components can work synchronously and complete precise correlation measurement at different positions, the clocks of all nodes are required to be from the same source and to achieve automatic phase synchronization, as well as the fusion...
The Any Light Particle Search~II (ALPS~II) experiment at DESY, Hamburg, is a light-shining-through-a-wall experiment aiming to explore the possible existence of axions and axion-like particles, which are potential dark matter candidates. ALPS~II is currently collecting data using a heterodyne-based detection scheme. A complementary run using a single photon detection scheme is foreseen, which...
The Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT), installed in 2021 during the Long Shutdown 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is one of the crucial ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) detectors. It performs several essential functions, including delivery of the fast (<425 ns) online minimum bias collision trigger and monitoring luminosity and background conditions. The achieved collision time...
Silicon strip detectors remain a popular choice in various fields of physics due to their flexibility and capability to achieve high spatial resolutions, ranging from tens of micrometers to less than 5 micrometers while covering large areas up to several square meters. The ASTRA-64 (Adaptable Silicon sTrip Read-out ASIC) is a 64-channel mixed-signal ASIC designed to read micro-strip silicon...
BULLKID-DM is a new experiment to search for hypothetical WIMP-like Dark-Matter particles with mass around 1 GeV and cross-section with nucleons smaller than $10^{-41}$ cm$^2$.
The target will amount to 600 g subdivided in 2500 silicon dice sensed by phonon-mediated kinetic inductance detectors. With respect to other solid-state experiments in the field the aim is to control the backgrounds...
In the high-luminosity LHC era, CMS will see an unprecedented number of collisions per bunch crossing, calling for a full Phase-2 upgrade of the detector. In particular, to meet the 1% precision goal for luminosity measurement per year, the development of a new luminosity-dedicated detector and the adaptation of CMS subsystems for this purpose is required. In the present contribution, we...
MALTA2 is a depleted monolithic active pixel sensor (DMAPS) designed for tracking at high rates and is produced in the modified Tower 180 nm CMOS technology. The sensing layer of the 36.4×36.4 $\mathrm{\mu m^2}$ pixels consists of either high resistivity epitaxial or Czochralski silicon. A small collection electrode features a small pixel capacitance and offers low noise. Typically, the...
Future hadronic colliders are expected to have increasing multiple interactions per bunch crossing, which poses a challenge for silicon detectors. These sensors need to perform 4D tracking and withstand extreme radiation levels.
Low-gain avalanche diodes have excellent timing performance but also a moderate fluence limit. Beyond about $2.5\cdot10^{15}$ $n_{eq}/cm^2$, the gain implant, which...
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a gadolinium-doped water Cherenkov detector located on Fermilab’s Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). It aims to measure final state neutron multiplicity in neutrino-nucleus interactions, an important parameter for improving neutrino interaction models. Furthermore, ANNIE serves as a test bed for new detector technologies,...
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a neutrino detector at the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. It is a 26-ton Gadolinium-loaded water Cherenkov detector designed to measure CC interaction cross-sections and neutron multiplicity. In addition, ANNIE serves as a testbed for novel detector technologies amongst which is Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS)....
The beam monitoring system, known as the eyes of the accelerators, is an essential part of the accelerator facilities. Its function is to monitor the beam parameters to improve the beam quality. The gaseous detector with direct charge collecting pixel readout shows excellent potential for non-destructive beam monitoring since it can provide high spatial resolution and handle high flux beam...
The High Energy Radiation Detection Facility (HERD) is a flagship space astronomy and particle astrophysics experiment of the Chinese Cosmic Lighthouse Program, which will be installed at the China Space Station in 2027. HERD will plan a decade-long experiment in orbit for dark matter detection, cosmic ray energy measurement and high-energy gamma-ray detection. The high-energy cosmic ray...
A method for real-time, in vivo verification of dose delivery during Very High Energy Electron (VHEE) therapy is presented. The method involves detecting Bremsstrahlung radiation emitted when VHEE beams interact with matter, using LYSO scintillation detectors coupled to photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). A cylindrical polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) phantom was irradiated with 80 and 150 MeV...
The verification of the particle range for the particle therapy in situ during the therapy is important and challenging technique to suppress the risks of miss irradiation (i.e. over dose or wrong position), and we have developed novel monitor consisting of plastic scintillation fibers and multi-anode photomultiplier tube. Here, the secondary protons are calculated to be traced the peak pf the...
Plans for a future experiment to search for $\mu^+\to e^+\gamma $ are now under discussion. To achieve $\mathcal{O}(10^{-15})$ sensitivity, developing a photon detector with good resolutions and high rate capability is crucial. Therefore, we are considering using a pair spectrometer for photon detection, which offers better resolution and higher rate capability than a calorimeter. The...
The European Pathfinder project Unicorn aims to advance radiation detection
techniques through the development of novel nanoparticle-based scintillating
materials. This work explores the scintillation properties of inorganic
scintillator nanocrystals embedded in polymer or glass matrices, aiming at applications
in gamma and beta decay detection. This research employs a...
The ALICE Forward Calorimeter upgrade (ALICE FoCal) will be installed for LHC Run 4 with the physics goal to probe hadronic matter, its gluon density and the parton distribution functions at Bjorken-x of 10^(-6) and below. The detector - a 20-layer electromagnetic Si-W sampling calorimeter and a copper + scintillating fiber hadronic calorimeter in 'spaghetti' design - will cover a...
Inorganic scintillating crystals are used in high-energy physics to build homogeneous calorimeters with an energy resolution for electromagnetic particles significantly better than traditional sampling calorimeters. However, for hadronic particles, the event-by-event fluctuations of the electromagnetic fraction of hadronic showers (fem) deteriorate the performance of the calorimeter. To adress...
Water Cherenkov detectors (WCDs) are key in exploring high-energy astrophysical phenomena, offering a lower-cost and accessible alternative to space-based instruments for detecting high-energy particles. In this contribution, I will introduce a novel photodetector technique, a smaller and cost-effective alternative to the traditionally used large photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). We present the...
FASER is located 480 meters from the ATLAS interaction point, along the collision axis. The tracking system of the FASER detector consists of four identical tracker stations made from silicon microstrip detectors. It's designed to be able to measure trajectory of charged particles to search for long-lived particles such as dark photons or axion-like particles and study collider neutrino which...
Thin planar single-crystal chemical vapour deposition (sCVD) diamond sensors enabled the development of a multi-stage spectrometer capable of measuring low-energy protons in the range of 2 MeV to 20 MeV. In this study, a CIVIDEC B14 Diamond Telescope Detector was utilised to analyse a proton beam generated by neutron interactions with a polyethylene converter. This shows the background...
Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs) are particle detectors with a moderate gain (< 20) optimized for high energy physics experiments. Gain in these sensors is controlled by bias voltage but it depends also on the other factors such as temperature and charge density generated in the gain layer. When the laser pulses are used to study LGADs, charge density strongly depends on the beam...
The AMBER experiment at CERN’s SPS explores fundamental questions in hadron physics using high-
energy muon, pion, kaon, and hadron beams. With successfully completing its first physics run in 2023
and 2024, AMBER will provide valuable data for dark matter searches by measuring the antiproton
production cross section on hydrogen, deuterium and helium targets. Looking ahead, the...
The Circular Electron Positron Collider accelerator Technical Design Report (TDR), as a Higgs and high luminosity Z factory, has been released in 2023 at Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS in China. The baseline design of a detector concept consists of a large 3D tracking system, which is a high precision (about 100μm) spatial resolution Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detector as the main...
Single-crystal chemical vapour deposition (sCVD) diamond detectors are known for their high radiation hardness and excellent performance at elevated temperatures. Recent results have shown that silicon carbide (SiC) sensors are promising candidates for particle spectroscopy in demanding environments. In this study, we present a comparative analysis of the achievable energy resolution of sCVD...
High Rate Picosecond Photodetectors (HRPPDs) are Micro-Channel Plate (MCP) based DC-coupled photosensors recently introduced by Incom, Inc. that have an active area of 104 mm by 104 mm, pixel pitch 3.25 mm, peak quantum efficiency in excess of 30%, exceptionally low dark count rates and timing resolution on the order of 30-40 ps for a single photon detection. As such, these photosensors are ...
During the LHC Long Shutdown 3 the CMS detector will undergo a major Phase-2 upgrade, to cope with the challenging environment of the High Luminosity LHC. The upgraded Phase-2 Outer Tracker (OT) is designed to have increased granularity and radiation tolerance with respect to the previous silicon strip tracker and the capability to handle higher data rates. A new feature of the upgraded OT,...
LhARA, the Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications, is a proposed facility designed to advance the study of pre-clinical radiation biology using proton and ion beams. The accelerator is intended to deliver various dose rates including ultra-high dose rates, necessitating real-time measurement of the dose distribution to minimize uncertainties. To meet this requirement, a...
The ATLAS18 silicon strip sensors for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Phase-2 upgrade are to operate near the interaction point to the integrated luminosity of 4000 fb-1, which results in the maximum fluence of 1.6×1015 neq/cm2. To confirm the key properties of the sensors, dedicated test structures are regularly irradiated and tested as part of the quality assurance (QA) program in 4 irradiation and...
The high-pressure Xe TPC is a crucial detector technology used in the searching for neutrino-less double beta decays (NLDBD). The PandaX-Ⅲ experiment, located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory II (CJPL-II), currently employs a 10 bar, 140 kg TPC filled with 90% enriched 136Xe gas to investigate NLDBD. The readout plane of the TPC is comprised of 52 thermal-bonding Micromegas...
The High-Intensity Heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) is a leading platform for heavy-ion scientific research in China. Currently, several significant physics experiments are being constructed at HIAF, including the Electron-Ion Collider in China (EicC), the All-Silicon High Energy Spectrometer, and the High Energy Fragment Separator (HFRS). The Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) are...
SPECT (Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography) is a nuclear imaging diagnostic exam that involves the administration of a radiopharmaceutical that specifically links to the tumor cells while emitting gamma rays, allowing for cancer detection. Typical SPECT detectors involve monolithic inorganic crystals combined with PMT matrices for the readout.
In this contribution we present a new...
The XAFS-DET package of the European LEAPS-INNOV project has undertaken an exciting initiative to develop a multi-element monolithic germanium detector for applications requiring spectroscopy-grade detectors like X-ray Fluorescence or X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. These detectors incorporate 1) a new germanium sensors with an optimized design to reject charge sharing events and two different...
Micro-pattern gaseous detectors (MPGDs), when integrated with optical imaging sensors, have been proven to effectively and accurately capture radiation beam information. To address the challenges of monitoring the dose and profile of medical pencil proton beams, which have a high density of greater than 109 Hz/cm2, an optical readout micro-mesh gaseous structure (ORM) was proposed. A...
The goal of the Mu3e experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland) is to search for the rare charged-lepton flavour-violating decay $\mu^{+} \rightarrow e^{+} e^{+} e^{-}$, the observation of which would be an unambigous sign of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Aiming for the ultimate sensitivity of O($10^{-16}$), Mu3e will improve upon the previous searches by four orders of...
High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) project is being constructed by the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. A High energy FRagment Separator (HFRS) at HIAF was designed to study the properties of rare isotopes far away from the line of beta stability and their involved nuclear reactions of astrophysics interests. HFRS utilizes the Bρ-TOF-ΔE method for...
The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) upgrade will increase instantaneous luminosity to more than five times its previous level, enhancing the precision of Higgs boson studies and expanding the potential for new physics discoveries. Synthetic single-crystal diamond (SCD), known for its superior radiation hardness, is a promising candidate for the proposed Mini-FCal in ATLAS...
The NEWS-G collaboration is searching for light dark matter using spherical proportional counters. Access to 50 MeV to 10 GeV mass range is enabled by the combination of single electron threshold, light gaseous targets (H, He, Ne), and highly radio-pure detector construction. Most recently, new constraints on spin-dependent interactions of dark matter with protons were obtained with the...
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) developed in a 65 nm CMOS imaging process offer a cost-effective alternative to hybrid pixel sensors by eliminating flip-chip bonding and enabling a reduced material budget through thinner active sensor layers. The TANGERINE project aims to develop a 65 nm MAPS sensor, with small collection electrode, optimized for future lepton colliders and beam...
Resistive Plate Chamber detectors play a crucial role in triggering events with muons in the ATLAS central region. In view of the HL-LHC program, this system is facing a significant upgrade. In the next few years, 306 triplets of new generation RPCs will be installed in the innermost region of the ATLAS Muon Barrel Spectrometer, increasing the number of tracking layers from 6 to 9, doubling...
The future Electron Ion Collider (EIC) will offer a unique opportunity to explore the parton distributions inside nucleons
and nuclei thanks to an unprecedented luminosity, a wide range of energies, a large choice of nuclei
and polarization of both beams. The electron Proton-Ion Collider (ePIC) detector will be capable of precise determination
of the position of primary and secondary...
The FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL has been devised to measure with high precision (better than 1%) the proton Zemach radius in muonic hydrogen, produced from a 55 MeV/c muon beam impinging on a target containing a mixture of H2 and O2 (1.5% in weight). The innovative method is based on a custom MIR laser (working at ~6800 nm) and a fast X-ray detector system. The X-ray detector system in the...
The project of a circular collider for electrons and positrons (FCC-ee) needs to be completed with a detecting apparatus. The Innovative Detector for Electron-positron Accelerator (IDEA) has been proposed to study with more precision the properties of heavy particles as top, Z, W and H.
From vertex outward, the apparatus is composed of an Inner Tracker and a Drift Chamber surrounded by a...
The Barrel DIRC (Detection of internally reflected Cherenkov light)
detector is a key component of the particle identification system for
the PANDA experiment, designed to provide at least 3 standard deviations
of separation between charged pions and kaons up to at least 3.5 GeV/c
for the polar angle range of 22 to 140 degrees.
The detector consists of 16 optically independent sectors....
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will deliver proton-proton collisions at 5 to 7.5 times the nominal LHC luminosity, with an expected number of 140 to 200 pp-interactions per bunch crossing. To maintain the performance of muon triggering and reconstruction under high background, the forward part of the muon spectrometer of the CMS experiment will be upgraded with Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM)...
