606 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 demonstrates that combining ionization measurements from a Time Projection Chamber with time-of-flight data from silicon-based inner and outer trackers significantly enhances charged-hadron identification performance across a broad momentum range for the Circular Electron-Positron Collider.
This paper demonstrates a compressive sensing framework for multi-beam scanning transmission electron microscopy that utilizes a custom six-hole condenser aperture and computational reconstruction to achieve high-fidelity imaging from significantly down-sampled data, offering a pathway for substantial acceleration of analytical scanning techniques.
This paper details the successful design, simulation, manufacturing, and high-voltage testing of 1.5-meter-scale electrodes for dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chambers, which were subsequently installed as the anode and cathode in the upgraded XENONnT experiment.
This paper evaluates the design parameters for next-generation gaseous xenon time projection chambers targeting neutrinoless double-beta decay, finding that detectors using enriched Xe with optimized energy resolution and event reconstruction can achieve background rates below 0.2 events per tonne-year, though no single operating pressure is clearly optimal when balancing performance with construction feasibility.
This paper presents a framework integrating autonomous microscopy with dual-novelty deep kernel learning and a dual variational autoencoder to autonomously discover and map structure-property relationships in halide perovskite films, revealing how specific nanoscale structural motifs govern functional behaviors like charge transport hysteresis.
This paper presents the design and preliminary test results of COFFEE3, a 55nm HVCMOS pixel sensor prototype featuring two distinct readout architectures developed to meet the stringent timing, spatial, and power requirements of future high-energy physics experiments like LHCb Upgrade II and the CEPC ITK.
This study validates the reliability of a deconvolution-based algorithm for reconstructing photomultiplier tube waveforms across a large charge dynamic range (0–200 photoelectrons) and varying scintillation time profiles, demonstrating stable performance with approximately 1% charge non-linearity and the capability to handle muon-induced large signals.
This paper presents the first measurement of phonon bursts caused by fast neutron damage in solid-state calorimeters but concludes that such bursts do not dominate the low-energy event excess observed in dark matter and neutrino searches, based on differences in spectral shape, thermal history dependence, and exposure scaling compared to control detectors.
This paper reports the fabrication and optical characterization of air-suspended yttrium iron garnet (YIG) photonic crystal nanobeam cavities via focused-ion-beam milling, demonstrating a critical step toward on-chip integration for future coupled photon-phonon-magnon quantum technologies.
This paper presents a prediction method for PMT afterpulse rates in the SUBMET experiment that achieves approximately 20% precision, thereby enhancing the reliability of background predictions for the search of millicharged particles.