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Author (up) Caballero, L.; Albiol, F.; Corbi Bellot, A.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Leganes Nieto, J.L.; Agramunt Ros, J.; Contreras, P.; Monserrate, M.; Olleros Rodriguez, P.; Perez Magan, D.L.
Title Gamma-ray imaging system for real-time measurements in nuclear waste characterisation Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 13 Issue Pages P03016 - 23pp
Keywords Inspection with gamma rays; Radiation monitoring
Abstract Acompact, portable and large field-of-viewgamma camera that is able to identify, locate and quantify gamma-ray emitting radioisotopes in real-time has been developed. The device delivers spectroscopic and imaging capabilities that enable its use it in a variety of nuclear waste characterisation scenarios, such as radioactivity monitoring in nuclear power plants and more specifically for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities. The technical development of this apparatus and some examples of its application in field measurements are reported in this article. The performance of the presented gamma-camera is also benchmarked against other conventional techniques.
Address [Caballero, L.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: Luis.Caballero@ific.uv.es
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN 1748-0221 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000428146300006 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3540
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Author (up) CALICE Collaboration (Lai, S. et al); Irles, A.
Title Software compensation for highly granular calorimeters using machine learning Type Journal Article
Year 2024 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 19 Issue 4 Pages P04037 - 28pp
Keywords Large detector-systems performance; Pattern recognition; cluster finding; calibration and fitting methods; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
Abstract A neural network for software compensation was developed for the highly granular CALICE Analogue Hadronic Calorimeter (AHCAL). The neural network uses spatial and temporal event information from the AHCAL and energy information, which is expected to improve sensitivity to shower development and the neutron fraction of the hadron shower. The neural network method produced a depth-dependent energy weighting and a time-dependent threshold for enhancing energy deposits consistent with the timescale of evaporation neutrons. Additionally, it was observed to learn an energy-weighting indicative of longitudinal leakage correction. In addition, the method produced a linear detector response and outperformed a published control method regarding resolution for every particle energy studied.
Address [Lai, S.; Utehs, J.; Wilhahn, A.] Georg August Univ Gottingen, Phys Inst 2, Friedrich Hund Pl 1, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany, Email: jack.rolph@desy.de
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Publisher IOP Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN 1748-0221 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:001230094600001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 6128
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Author (up) CALICE Collaboration (White, A. et al); Irles, A.
Title Design, construction and commissioning of a technological prototype of a highly granular SiPM-on-tile scintillator-steel hadronic calorimeter Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 18 Issue 11 Pages P11018 - 39pp
Keywords Calorimeters; Detector alignment and calibration methods (lasers, sources, par ticle- beams); Detector design and construction technologies and materials
Abstract The CALICE collaboration is developing highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for detectors at future energy frontier electron-positron colliders. After successful tests of a physics prototype, a technological prototype of the Analog Hadron Calorimeter has been built, based on a design and construction techniques scalable to a collider detector. The prototype consists of a steel absorber structure and active layers of small scintillator tiles that are individually read out by directly coupled SiPMs. Each layer has an active area of 72 x 72 cm2 and a tile size of 3 x 3 cm2. With 38 active layers, the prototype has nearly 22, 000 readout channels, and its total thickness amounts to 4.4 nuclear interaction lengths. The dedicated readout electronics provide time stamping of each hit with an expected resolution of about 1 ns. The prototype was constructed in 2017 and commissioned in beam tests at DESY. It recorded muons, hadron showers and electron showers at different energies in test beams at CERN in 2018. In this paper, the design of the prototype, its construction and commissioning are described. The methods used to calibrate the detector are detailed, and the performance achieved in terms of uniformity and stability is presented.
Address [White, A.; Yu, J.] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Phys, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
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Publisher IOP Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN 1748-0221 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:001127235400003 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5874
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Author (up) Carrio, F.; Kim, H.Y.; Moreno, P.; Reed, R.; Sandrock, C.; Schettino, V.; Shalyugin, A.; Solans, C.; Souza, J.; Usai, G.; Valero, A.
Title Design of an FPGA-based embedded system for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter front-end electronics test-bench Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 9 Issue Pages C03023 - 12pp
Keywords Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, architecture, hardware, algorithms; databases); Data acquisition concepts; Digital electronic circuits
Abstract The portable test-bench for the certification of the ATLAS tile hadronic calorimeter front-end electronics has been redesigned for the present Long Shutdown (LS1) of LHC, improving its portability and expanding its functionalities. This paper presents a new test-bench based on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA that implements an embedded system using a PowerPC 440 microprocessor hard core and custom IP cores. A light Linux version runs on the PowerPC microprocessor and handles the IP cores which implement the different functionalities needed to perform the desired tests such as TTCvi emulation, G-Link decoding, ADC control and data reception.
Address [Carrio, F.; Valero, A.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: fernando.carrio@cern.ch
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN 1748-0221 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000336123200023 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1801
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Author (up) CMS and CALICE Collaborations (Acar, B. et al); Irles, A.
Title Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter prototype to charged pion beams of 20-300 GeV/c Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 18 Issue 8 Pages P08014 - 32pp
Keywords Calorimeters; Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Radiation-hard detectors; Si microstrip and pad detectors
Abstract 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 calorimeter (HGCAL). The electromagnetic section of the HGCAL is based on silicon sensors interspersed between lead and copper (or copper tungsten) absorbers. The hadronic section uses layers of stainless steel as an absorbing medium and silicon sensors as an active medium in the regions of high radiation exposure, and scintillator tiles directly read out by silicon photomultipliers in the remaining regions. As part of the development of the detector and its readout electronic components, a section of a silicon-based HGCAL prototype detector along with a section of the CALICE AHCAL prototype was exposed to muons, electrons and charged pions in beam test experiments at the H2 beamline at the CERN SPS in October 2018. The AHCAL uses the same technology as foreseen for the HGCAL but with much finer longitudinal segmentation. The performance of the calorimeters in terms of energy response and resolution, longitudinal and transverse shower profiles is studied using negatively charged pions, and is compared to GEANT4 predictions. This is the first report summarizing results of hadronic showers measured by the HGCAL prototype using beam test data.
Address [Caraway, B.; Dittmann, J.; Hatakeyama, K.; Kanuganti, A. R.; Wilson, J. S.] Baylor Univ, Waco, TX 76706 USA, Email: Seema.Sharma@cern.ch
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Publisher IOP Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN 1748-0221 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:001085057700002 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5784
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Author (up) Contreras, T.; Martins, A.; Stanford, C.; Escobar, C.O.; Guenette, R.; Stancari, M.; Martin-Albo, J.; Lawrence-Sanderson, B.; Para, A.; Kish, A.; Kellerer, F.
Title A method to characterize metalenses for light collection applications Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 18 Issue 9 Pages T09004 - 11pp
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Abstract Metalenses and metasurfaces are promising emerging technologies that could improve light collection in light collection detectors, concentrating light on small area photodetectors such as silicon photomultipliers. Here we present a detailed method to characterize metalenses to assess their efficiency at concentrating monochromatic light coming from a wide range of incidence angles, not taking into account their imaging quality.
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 6086
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Author (up) Diez, S. et al; Bernabeu Verdú, J.; Civera, J.V.; Garcia, C.; Garcia-Argos, C.; Lacasta, C.; Marco, R.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Santoyo, D.; Soldevila, U.
Title A double-sided, shield-less stave prototype for the ATLAS Upgrade strip tracker for the High Luminosity LHC Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 9 Issue Pages P03012 - 16pp
Keywords Large detector-systems performance; Si microstrip and pad detectors; Particle tracking detectors; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
Abstract A detailed description of the integration structures for the barrel region of the silicon strips tracker of the ATLAS Phase-II upgrade for the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, the so-called High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), is presented. This paper focuses on one of the latest demonstrator prototypes recently assembled, with numerous unique features. It consists of a shortened, shield-less, and double sided stave, with two candidate power distributions implemented. Thermal and electrical performances of the prototype are presented, as well as a description of the assembly procedures and tools.
Address [Diez, S.; Haber, C. H.; Witharm, R.] LBNL, Berkeley, CA 94103 USA, Email: sdiezcornell@lbl.gov
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1748-0221 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000336123200072 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1802
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Author (up) Doncel, M.; Cederwall, B.; Martin, S.; Quintana, B.; Gadea, A.; Farnea, E.; Algora, A.
Title Conceptual design of a high resolution Ge array with tracking and imaging capabilities for the DESPEC (FAIR) experiment Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 10 Issue Pages P06010 - 15pp
Keywords Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPG, HgI etc); Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc)
Abstract We present results of Monte Carlo simulations for the conceptual design of the high-resolution DESPEC Germanium Array Spectrometer (DEGAS) proposed for the Facility for Ion and Antiproton Research (FAIR) under construction at Darmstadt, Germany. The project is carried out in three phases, although only results for the two first phases will be addressed in this work. The first phase will consist of a re-arrangement of the EUROBALL cluster detectors previously used in the RISING campaign at GSI. The second phase is based on coupling AGATA-type triple-cluster detectors with EUROBALL cluster detectors in a compact geometry around the active ion implantation target of DESPEC.
Address [Doncel, M.; Cederwall, B.] Royal Inst Technol, Dept Phys, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Email: doncel@kth.se
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Notes WOS:000358004200026 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2316
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Author (up) Double Chooz collaboration (Abe, Y. et al); Novella, P.
Title Characterization of the spontaneous light emission of the PMTs used in the Double Chooz experiment Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 11 Issue Pages P08001 - 25pp
Keywords Detector design and construction technologies and materials; Neutrino detectors; Photoemission
Abstract During the commissioning of the first of the two detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, an unexpected and dominant background caused by the emission of light inside the optical volume has been observed. A specific study of the ensemble of phenomena called Light Noise has been carried out in-situ, and in an external laboratory, in order to characterize the signals and to identify the possible processes underlying the effect. Some mechanisms of instrumental noise originating from the PMTs were identified and it has been found that the leading one arises from the light emission localized on the photomultiplier base and produced by the combined effect of heat and high voltage across the transparent epoxy resin covering the electric components. The correlation of the rate and the amplitude of the signal with the temperature has been observed. For the first detector in operation the induced background has been mitigated using online and offline analysis selections based on timing and light pattern of the signals, while a modification of the photomultiplier assembly has been implemented for the second detector in order to blacken the PMT bases.
Address [Abrahao, T.; Nunokawa, H.; Wagner, S.] PUC Univ, R Marques de Sao Vicente,225 Gavea, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, Email: roberto.santorelli@ciemat.es
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000387860100001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2869
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Author (up) Double Chooz collaboration (Abrahao, T. et al); Novella, P.
Title Novel event classification based on spectral analysis of scintillation waveforms in Double Chooz Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Instrumentation Abbreviated Journal J. Instrum.
Volume 13 Issue Pages P01031 - 26pp
Keywords Digital signal processing (DSP); Particle identification methods; Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators); Neutrino detectors
Abstract Liquid scintillators are a common choice for neutrino physics experiments, but their capabilities to perform background rejection by scintillation pulse shape discrimination is generally limited in large detectors. This paper describes a novel approach for a pulse shape based event classification developed in the context of the Double Chooz reactor antineutrino experiment. Unlike previous implementations, this method uses the Fourier power spectra of the scintillation pulse shapes to obtain event-wise information. A classification variable built from spectral information was able to achieve an unprecedented performance, despite the lack of optimization at the detector design level. Several examples of event classification are provided, ranging from differentiation between the detector volumes and an efficient rejection of instrumental light noise, to some sensitivity to the particle type, such as stopping muons, ortho-positronium formation, alpha particles as well as electrons and positrons. In combination with other techniques the method is expected to allow for a versatile and more efficient background rejection in the future, especially if detector optimization is taken into account at the design level.
Address [Abrahao, T.; dos Anjos, J. C.; Lima, H.; Pepe, I.; Wagner, S.] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, BR-22290180 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Email: stefan.wagner@apc.in2p3.fr
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Notes WOS:000423783800003 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3466
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