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 experimentally demonstrates the detection of momentum transfers from individual gas collisions with an optically levitated nanoparticle, validating theoretical models and establishing a proof-of-principle for primary pressure sensors and precision measurements of fundamental particle interactions.
This paper presents measurements of thin-film aluminum CPW resonators used for KID development, reporting ultra-high quality factors and proposing a modified model to explain deviations from standard two-level system loss behavior at low powers and temperatures below 60 mK.
This paper investigates how Coulomb interactions between electrons in -decaying impurities and their solid-state environment affect the energy resolution and visibility required for detecting the cosmic neutrino background, analyzing scenarios ranging from completely suppressed hybridization via dielectric spacers to cases where hybridization is treated perturbatively.
This paper demonstrates that hybrid pixel counting detectors, while promising for ultrafast electron diffraction due to their low noise and high frame rates, suffer from severe count losses in pulsed beam experiments that saturate at approximately two electrons per pixel per pulse, necessitating new data handling strategies and detector adaptations to optimize signal-to-noise ratios.
This paper presents a comprehensive compilation of material radioactivity constraints generated through various techniques to support the nEXO double-beta decay search, serving as a critical resource for selecting radiopure materials and avoiding duplicated efforts in low-energy rare-event experiments.
The SHIELD platform is a newly developed, gas-driven permeation system designed to provide reliable, reproducible, and low-uncertainty measurements of hydrogen transport properties in structural materials, demonstrating its effectiveness through validated permeability data on stainless and low-carbon steels for fusion applications.
This paper presents a complexity-agnostic clustering engine implemented in an FPGA for Time Projection Chambers that guarantees predictable, linear-time processing by organizing hits into clusters within a fixed number of clock cycles, regardless of event complexity.
This paper presents the development and validation of a scalable, multi-channel FPGA-based data acquisition system featuring NINO ASIC front-end electronics and a 500MHz sampling rate, which successfully demonstrates accurate two-dimensional muon position tracking for non-destructive muon scattering tomography applications.
The BABY 1L experiment successfully benchmarked tritium breeding in a scaled-up molten salt system under DT neutron irradiation, demonstrating a six-fold improvement in breeding ratios over previous tests, validating OpenMC simulations, and identifying diffusion-limited transport and hydrogen-facilitated release as key mechanisms for future fusion power plant designs.
This paper presents a statistical framework that models quasiparticle dynamics following particle impacts to distinguish recombination and trapping processes, enabling the use of superconducting transmon qubits as energy-resolving detectors for reconstructing particle impact locations and energies.