465 papers
This collection explores the fascinating world of instrumentation and detection within physics, focusing on the tools and sensors that allow scientists to measure the universe. From advanced particle trackers to sensitive gravitational wave detectors, these innovations form the backbone of modern discovery, turning abstract theories into observable data.
On Gist.Science, we process every new preprint in this field as it appears on arXiv, ensuring you stay ahead of the curve. Each paper is accompanied by a clear, plain-language explanation alongside a detailed technical summary, bridging the gap between complex research and accessible knowledge.
Below are the latest papers in physics instrumentation and detection, offering fresh insights into how we observe the fundamental nature of reality.
This study demonstrates that pulse shape discrimination classifiers trained exclusively on gamma-ray data can effectively identify and reject alpha events in high-purity germanium detectors, offering a robust background suppression strategy for next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay searches like LEGEND where dedicated alpha training data is insufficient.
This paper introduces a fast, flexible time-domain simulator for optical cavities that efficiently models non-linear dynamics during high-speed resonance crossings by using a recursive round-trip formulation, validated against Virgo interferometer data for applications in real-time control and reinforcement learning.
This paper presents an exhaustive simulation flow that integrates TCAD, Allpix Squared, and SPICE to accurately predict the performance of monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS), including leakage currents and irradiation effects, and validates this methodology against measurements from the Belle II TJ-Monopix2 sensor.
This paper presents the performance evaluation of the new PISTA silicon-telescope array coupled with the VAMOS++ magnetic spectrometer, demonstrating its capability to achieve high-resolution particle identification and excitation energy reconstruction (800 keV FWHM) for studying fission processes induced by multi-nucleon transfer reactions in inverse kinematics.
The ICESPICE demonstrator, a modular mini-orange spectrometer developed at Florida State University, successfully enables particle/gamma-electron coincidence measurements for low-energy nuclear structure studies, as validated by commissioning tests and its first in-beam application with the Super-Enge Split-Pole Spectrograph.
This review article summarizes recent technological breakthroughs in generating ultrastrong magnetic fields (100–1,000+ T) via Single-Turn Coil and Electromagnetic Flux Compression methods, while detailing specialized measurement infrastructures and highlighting key physical phenomena discovered in materials science under these extreme conditions.
The paper introduces CaloArt, a large-patch x-prediction Diffusion Transformer that achieves state-of-the-art high-granularity calorimeter shower generation with high physics fidelity and low computational cost, eliminating the need for pretrained latent tokenizers.
This paper proposes and evaluates a novel approach using probabilistic generative models to estimate neutron source distributions from Monte Carlo particle lists, enabling efficient, memory-independent sampling once the models are trained.
This study demonstrates that a modified, water-free synthesis technique can successfully load Te-diol compounds into a Borexino-like liquid scintillator at concentrations up to 2%, preserving the detector's optical transmission and emission spectra while resulting in a systematic reduction of light yield and scintillation decay time.
This paper introduces a modified reliability factor, , to replace Pendry's in quantitative low-energy electron diffraction, addressing its sensitivity to noise and intensity offsets while demonstrating superior or comparable performance in optimizing surface structure determination.