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 presents and validates a low-cost, automated instrumentation system that measures wind-induced vibrations of mass-balance stakes to enable continuous, centimeter-precision monitoring of glacier surface melt and accumulation.
This paper reports the successful stable operation of a large-diameter, shallow dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber within the unshielded PANCAKE facility, demonstrating that sensitive performance characterization is achievable in a high-background environment despite a relatively high energy threshold.
This paper presents a generalized, platform-agnostic full-spectrum modeling framework for mobile gamma-ray spectrometry systems in scattering media that achieves near-real-time template generation with a computational speedup of and high accuracy, significantly enhancing capabilities for source localization and quantification across diverse environmental and emergency response applications.
This paper proposes a cost-effective Total-Body PET scanner design utilizing cryogenic monolithic cesium iodide crystals, which achieve high light yield and sub-7% energy resolution at low temperatures, offering a promising alternative to expensive rare-earth scintillators for broader clinical adoption.
This paper presents the development and cosmic ray evaluation of a high-granularity BGO crystal calorimeter prototype for China's VLAST space observatory, featuring a dual-APD readout scheme that achieves a 10^6 dynamic range to enable precise energy measurement and electron/proton discrimination across a broad MeV-to-TeV energy spectrum.
This paper presents a novel, compact SiPM-based detector prototype that successfully combines Ring-Imaging Cherenkov and Time-of-Flight measurements to achieve high angular and timing resolution for particle identification, demonstrating its potential for space applications where volume is limited.
This paper presents a study on optimizing Cherenkov-based Time-of-Flight detectors using thin high-refractive-index radiators coupled to SiPM arrays, detailing the factors influencing time resolution and validating performance through Monte Carlo simulations and beam test comparisons.
This paper introduces Timepix2-Lite, a compact readout interface for the Timepix2 detector that enables nanosecond-scale timing and energy measurements, demonstrating its versatility through successful integration into diverse applications and the precise determination of the 67.5 ns half-life of the 59.5 keV transition in 237Np.
This paper presents a novel multi-mode lens design utilizing adjustable annular electrodes to mitigate high-field complications and space charge effects while simultaneously improving field curvature and expanding the field of view for both momentum microscopy and XPEEM across a broad energy range.
This paper presents a novel fast simulation tool for the LHCb experiment that utilizes heterogeneous graph neural networks to emulate detector responses for arbitrary multibody decay topologies, enabling generalizable interpolation to unseen channels and offering a scalable solution to the growing computational demands of particle physics simulations.