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 describes the development of a high-field pulsed magnet system coupled with an optical fiber cryostat, which utilizes a 75 kJ capacitor bank to generate 35 tesla magnetic fields at 400 V while maintaining a stable 5 K environment for magneto-photoluminescence measurements.
This study demonstrates that gap-engineering strategies in superconducting qubits can mitigate radiation-induced correlated errors by reducing quasiparticle density at Josephson junctions and accelerating recovery through trapping in the capacitor/ground-plane, thereby offering effective pathways to improve radiation resilience.
This paper projects the sensitivity of paleo-detectors to various non-relativistic effective field theory dark matter-nucleus interactions, demonstrating that they offer superior or comparable discovery potential to current conventional direct detection experiments across a wide range of dark matter masses and interaction types.
This paper reports on a 5.3 GeV positron beam test of a SiPM-on-tile Zero Degree Calorimeter prototype at Jefferson Laboratory, evaluating its energy response, shower shape, and spatial reconstruction performance against simulations to inform the final design for the Electron-Ion Collider.
This paper proposes enhanced PICOSEC detector configurations that utilize thick reflective photocathodes on readout electrodes of various avalanche multipliers to improve robustness and performance, including operation at mbar gas pressures.
This paper details the design, construction, and performance of the Super Fine-Grained Detector (SuperFGD), a novel segmented plastic scintillator installed in the T2K experiment's upgraded ND280, which utilizes 3D tracking, high light yield, and sub-nanosecond timing to significantly improve particle identification and enable the first reconstruction of neutron kinetic energy in a neutrino experiment.
This paper demonstrates a novel method for resolving event-by-event discrete charge changes in optically levitated silica microspheres caused by individual radioactive decays of implanted Pb and its daughters, by correlating millisecond-scale charge measurements with coincident scintillation detector signals to distinguish the charge ejection characteristics of and decays.
This paper presents the design and room-temperature operational results of a spark chamber prototype equipped with a flash lamp, intended to generate vacuum ultraviolet light for testing precision sensors used in noble liquid detectors for dark matter and neutrino physics.
This paper presents a compact, non-magnetic traveling-wave parametric amplifier and converter that integrates broadband forward amplification with backward signal isolation via frequency conversion, offering a scalable solution to eliminate bulky isolators and circulators in superconducting quantum computing readout chains.
This paper presents a fully unsupervised methodology using a convolutional autoencoder to detect and filter anomalous MeV ultrafast electron diffraction patterns caused by beam instabilities, achieving high accuracy with minimal training data and rapid processing times.