446 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 presents Simphony, a GPU-accelerated optical photon Monte Carlo tool that achieves a ~1000-fold speedup over Geant4 while maintaining subpercent accuracy in photon detection metrics, thereby enabling practical large-scale optical simulations for noble liquid detector development and machine learning applications.
The paper introduces CaloTrilogy, a unified framework that achieves high-quality, physics-guided particle shower generation for modern calorimeters in just one or a few inference steps by combining an average velocity field integrator, a data-derived generative prior, and training-time physics constraints, thereby overcoming the computational inefficiencies of existing flow and diffusion models.
This paper proposes a parasitic high-energy polarized gamma-ray facility at FCC-ee using Compton backscattering to achieve a four- to seven-fold improvement in precision for measuring the polarized gluon distribution in the medium- region through open-charm photoproduction.
This paper presents a rapid, low-background liquid scintillation assay using pulse-shape analysis that efficiently measures Pb in archaeological lead with high sensitivity, enabling direct verification of secular equilibrium and serving as a reliable tool for radiopurity screening in rare-event physics experiments.
This paper presents preliminary measurements of Earth's angular velocity using TRIO, a new transportable ring laser gyroscope prototype with a 1.52 m side length, to evaluate its performance and validate the design for the upcoming large-scale GINGER project at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory.
This paper proposes an enhanced recursive gated cyclic residual-sparse linear attention network for CLYC detectors that achieves high-accuracy neutron-gamma pulse shape discrimination (98.7% accuracy, 2.2 quality factor) with robust noise resistance and ultra-low latency (0.05 ms) suitable for real-time embedded deployment.
This paper presents a spectrally resolved study of x-ray parametric down-conversion at the diamond K-edge, demonstrating pronounced polaritonic hybridization that achieves strong coupling and enables high-resolution extraction of the bulk diamond refractive index.
This paper presents an optimized Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and an inverse distance weighting approach to improve 3D density reconstruction and air-rock interface mapping in muography, demonstrating significantly enhanced accuracy and artifact reduction through both Monte Carlo simulations and field data from the TianQin Tunnel experiment.
This paper presents a simplified analytical and numerical model to quantify the maximum space-point resolution gains achievable through charge sharing in silicon pixel detectors with digital readout, deriving a phenomenological parameterization validated against experimental data from various detector technologies.
This paper presents a high-performance, low-latency FPGA-based feedforward system integrated with a high-efficiency homodyne detector to enable real-time adaptive measurements essential for scalable continuous-variable measurement-based quantum information processing.