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 paper reveals that a memory effect caused by the relaxation time of Cr3+ impurities in cryogenic sapphire resonators induces hysteresis and dynamic thermal sensitivity, which degrades the frequency stability of ultra-stable oscillators by creating a distinct bump in the Allan deviation at 10-second integration times.
This paper reports the sub-nanosecond characterization of micro-spill structures in medical cyclotron and synchrotron beams using high-frequency silicon carbide sensors, demonstrating how precise knowledge of beam time structure is essential for mitigating pulse pileup and optimizing readout electronics for particle physics experiments.
This paper details the algorithms and software configuration used for charged-particle and primary vertex reconstruction in the ATLAS Inner Detector, demonstrating their high efficiency, resolution, and low mis-reconstruction rates when applied to both Run 2 and early Run 3 data under high pile-up conditions.
This paper presents the first 2025 test-beam results of the AstroPix-v3 HVCMOS sensor, demonstrating its stable performance, high hit efficiency, and capability to effectively discriminate between electromagnetic and hadronic showers when integrated with a Pb/SciFi calorimeter, thereby validating its suitability for future space-based gamma-ray missions and the ePIC experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider.
This paper reports the successful adaptation of the 18 MeV Bern Medical Cyclotron's beamline into a flexible research platform capable of delivering both conventional and FLASH proton beams with spatially fractionated minibeam capabilities, thereby enabling systematic pre-clinical radiobiology studies to optimize emerging radiotherapy modalities.
This paper presents a compact, piezoelectric-driven micropipette launcher that enables efficient, localized in-vacuum delivery of diverse nano- and microparticles into various optical trapping configurations, achieving trapping efficiencies as high as 93%.
This paper reports the first detection of marine microseismic vibrations using mK-scale calorimeters in the CUORE experiment, demonstrating their seasonal impact on detector performance and validating a noise decorrelation algorithm to mitigate such environmental noise for future rare-event searches.
This paper demonstrates that machine learning models trained on high-fidelity simulated gamma spectroscopy data can accurately classify and estimate the fission yields of very low-yield nuclear tests, offering a viable technical solution for verifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty's zero-yield standard.
This paper analyzes the evolution of collected charge and depletion voltage in ATLAS IBL planar pixel sensors over a decade of LHC operation, correlating radiation-induced performance degradation with particle fluence using experimental bias scans and validated TCAD/Monte Carlo simulations.
The TREX-DM collaboration successfully implemented a CNA-produced Ar calibration source and a novel GEM-Micromegas readout system to detect low-energy argon decay emissions, achieving an unprecedented energy threshold approaching the single-electron ionization limit for low-mass dark matter searches.