613 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 characterizes the performance and durability of various UV optical components, including fibers, connectors, and diffusers, under cryogenic and high-rate conditions, demonstrating their reliability for in situ calibration of photosensors in large-scale liquid argon time projection chambers like DUNE.
This paper presents a novel high voltage delivery system design for the nEXO noble liquid time projection chamber, addressing stability challenges and radiopurity requirements to prevent electrical discharges while offering guidance for future experiments in similar environments.
This paper presents the development of a portable, cost-effective cosmic muon tracker utilizing plastic scintillators and SiPMs, designed for both on-site flux measurements in diverse environments and educational outreach through real-time mobile monitoring.
This paper presents a low-cost, zwitterion-doped liquid crystal device that generates tunable dynamic speckle patterns, offering a simple and effective alternative to complex spatial light modulators for achieving optical sectioning and super-resolution in widefield random illumination fluorescence microscopy.
This paper presents experimental characterization results, including dark count rate measurements under neutron irradiation and cryogenic cooling, of CMOS SPADs developed in 55 nm and 110 nm technologies for future high-granularity, radiation-hard RICH detectors in LHCb, ALICE, and Belle II experiments.
This paper demonstrates that combining the next-generation long-baseline experiments DUNE and T2HK significantly enhances the precision of neutrino oscillation parameters and , enabling the exclusion of the wrong octant at approximately confidence and improving current measurement precisions by factors of 5 to 7, even with reduced exposure compared to their individual capabilities.
This paper presents the design, development, characterization, and applications of a portable Cosmic Muon Tracker (CMT), a stack of eight one-square-foot Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) derived from the India-based Neutrino Observatory's large-scale detector technology, intended for small-scale particle physics experiments and student training.
This paper presents a reliable, UDP-based command interface for the INO ICAL experiment that mitigates packet loss through a custom handshaking and checksum mechanism, with its performance and robustness validated on the Mini ICAL prototype.
The TRIUMF collaboration reports initial successful production of ultracold neutrons from a new spallation-driven superfluid helium-4 source, with results aligning with simulations and indicating the facility is on track to achieve its ultimate goals for a high-precision measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment once the cold moderator system is completed.
This study characterizes the radiation damage in Silicon Carbide (SiC) planar PiN diodes subjected to clinical proton beams, revealing a gradual compensation of effective doping concentration and establishing linear donor removal rates to predict the performance and lifetime of future radiation-hard detector technologies.