590 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 demonstrates that hybrid pixel counting detectors, while promising for ultrafast electron diffraction due to their low noise and high frame rates, suffer from severe count losses in pulsed beam experiments that saturate at approximately two electrons per pixel per pulse, necessitating new data handling strategies and detector adaptations to optimize signal-to-noise ratios.
This paper presents the first quantitative characterization of simultaneous MeV X-ray and neutron beams generated by a petawatt-class laser, demonstrating their potential for compact, dual-mode radiography of dense materials.
This paper presents a comprehensive compilation of material radioactivity constraints generated through various techniques to support the nEXO double-beta decay search, serving as a critical resource for selecting radiopure materials and avoiding duplicated efforts in low-energy rare-event experiments.
The SHIELD platform is a newly developed, gas-driven permeation system designed to provide reliable, reproducible, and low-uncertainty measurements of hydrogen transport properties in structural materials, demonstrating its effectiveness through validated permeability data on stainless and low-carbon steels for fusion applications.
The TUCAN collaboration has successfully commissioned a multi-layer magnetically shielded room that achieves a quasi-static shielding factor of approximately within the TRIUMF cyclotron's ambient field, demonstrating residual field conditions sufficient for a future neutron electric dipole moment search targeting a precision of .
Using the NEXT-DEMO++ detector, researchers measured the electroluminescence yield in high-pressure xenon gas across 2.0 to 9.4 bar, revealing a modest pressure-dependent increase in the reduced yield slope above 5 bar to resolve inconsistencies found in existing literature.
This paper presents a high-yield, automated method for fabricating reproducible concave silica micromirrors with tunable radii of curvature using feedback-controlled CO2 laser ablation and in situ phase-scanning interferometric calibration, successfully demonstrating their application in high-finesse Fabry–Perot microcavities for cavity quantum electrodynamics and optomechanics.
Using a high-purity sample of atmospheric charged-current events from 7.5 years of IceCube DeepCore data, this study establishes -free constraints on non-standard interaction parameters and that are consistent with the Standard Model and complementary to long-baseline experiments.
This paper presents results from two CERN test beam campaigns using 150 GeV muon beams to evaluate the spatial resolution and detection efficiency of straw tube detectors, establishing benchmark performance metrics for their potential application in the FCC-ee straw tracker.
This paper presents a robust reconstruction framework for event-level voxelisation in two-photon absorption scans using Timepix3, which enables blind, trigger-free timing assignment and eliminates systematic spatial biases by utilizing pixel-overlap selection and charge-weighted cluster timing instead of traditional centroid or earliest-hit methods.