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 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 presents a hardware-aware, quantized variational autoencoder deployed on an FPGA that achieves sub-millisecond latency for fast calorimeter simulation, offering a significant speedup over traditional GPU implementations with minimal performance loss to address the computational bottlenecks in particle physics experiments.
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 presents initial results demonstrating that a polymer-based wafer-to-wafer bonding process enables the fabrication of ultra-thin hybrid silicon pixel detectors with high mechanical stability and successful bump bonding yield, offering a viable alternative to monolithic designs.
This paper presents a universal detection method utilizing quantum point-contact sensors based on conductance quantization to rapidly and selectively identify a wide spectrum of pollutants, including heavy metal ions and organic solvents, in liquid media at trace concentrations.
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 presents a practical, room-temperature Fourier transform infrared spectrometer utilizing a diamond plate beam splitter and windowless lithium tantalate detector to achieve simultaneous broadband spectral coverage from the near-infrared to the terahertz range (1–50 μm) in seconds using a single optical setup.
This paper presents T-DAQ-P, a portable, Raspberry Pi 5 and Arduino-based data acquisition platform that integrates multi-stream event logging, contextual telemetry, and commissioning tools via a custom COTS interface layer to enable robust, resilient detector deployments in both laboratory and field environments.