607 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 a novel physical model-based conversion formula that overcomes the inherent response delays of chemiresistive gas sensors by dynamically translating resistance changes into real-time gas concentrations, a strategy validated for NO2 and NH3 detection.
This paper reports the successful off-line commissioning of the radio frequency quadrupole ion guide for the St. Benedict experiment, demonstrating transport efficiencies exceeding 95% from the upstream RF carpet chamber and 60% from the dedicated off-line source to facilitate future tests of the Standard Model's electroweak sector.
This paper proposes a broadband impedance matching network utilizing the negative inductance of a biased Josephson junction to overcome the gain-bandwidth limitations of passive circuits, thereby enhancing the scan rate for axion dark matter searches.
This paper introduces the first application of deep neural networks to continuous-wave NMR polarization measurements, demonstrating that machine learning-based signal extraction significantly reduces noise and fitting uncertainties to improve the precision and reliability of target polarization monitoring in high-energy and nuclear physics experiments.
This paper demonstrates that the optical extinction manifold of dielectric materials exhibits intrinsic sparsity best captured by the Discrete Cosine Transform rather than the FFT, enabling a compressed sensing architecture that achieves high-fidelity material reconstruction with a 51–94% reduction in hardware sensors by overcoming traditional Nyquist limits.
This paper presents the successful development, installation, and commissioning of a modular and extensible control system for Fresnel zone plate zooming optics at KEK's AR-NE1A beamline, utilizing the STARS framework and the new CCDC command set to ensure reliable operation, enhanced flexibility, and interoperability for both routine and advanced experimental protocols.
This paper demonstrates that integrating plastic scintillator detectors read out by the MuTRiG ASIC into the MuSiP spectrometer overcomes the timing limitations of silicon pixel detectors, enabling high-rate vertex-reconstructed muon-spin spectroscopy with sub-300 ps resolution and the ability to resolve precession frequencies exceeding 50 MHz.
The paper introduces Neural Field Thermal Tomography (NeFTY), a differentiable physics framework that parameterizes 3D material diffusivity as a continuous neural field optimized via a rigorous numerical solver to achieve high-resolution, quantitative reconstruction of subsurface defects from transient surface temperature measurements, overcoming the limitations of traditional 1D approximations and soft-constrained PINNs.
This paper presents a versatile analytic model for predicting the broadband Photon Detection Efficiency of VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers across various wavelengths, angles, and temperatures, validated by experimental data and demonstrated through successful extrapolation to liquid noble environments and optimization for astroparticle physics and quantum computing applications.
This paper reports the successful calibration and performance assessment of a new room-temperature Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detector array at the DANE collider, demonstrating its excellent linearity and stability for future precision spectroscopy of kaonic atoms within the SIDDHARTA-2 program.