619 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 the design and characterization of a dual-readout photosensor system using Hamamatsu R8520-406 PMTs that successfully mitigates cosmic muon saturation to enable the RELICS experiment to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering signals at the surface level.
This paper establishes a comprehensive microscopic framework to evaluate power attenuation in superconducting rectangular waveguides across the millimeter-wave to terahertz range, revealing that high-purity materials in the clean limit minimize linear losses while native oxide TLS effects dominate at ultra-low temperatures and strong excitation induces a distinct Higgs-mode dissipation peak near the superconducting gap frequency.
This paper presents and validates a method for measuring the momenta of charged particles in the FASER emulsion detector using multiple Coulomb scattering, demonstrating its effectiveness from a few GeV to several TeV through Geant4 simulations and test beam data.
This paper presents a real-time method for monitoring antenna input currents to enable impedance tuning that maximizes power, gain, or efficiency while preserving the phased-array radiation pattern in dynamic environments.
This paper demonstrates that the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller serves as a cost-effective and scalable alternative to complex FPGA-based systems for experimental timing, achieving 7.5 ns resolution and a 37.5 ns minimum pulse width.
This study investigates the effects of low-dose Co60 gamma irradiation (0.5 to 100 krad) on ATLAS ITk MD8 diodes to characterize the previously unknown dependence of surface current on total ionizing dose, annealing, and temperature, while also examining the impact of p-stop implants to ensure the detector's reliability during initial operations.
This paper presents the architecture, deployment, and performance metrics, including event rates and recognition efficiency, of the scintillation-light-based trigger system used during the first two physics runs of the ICARUS liquid argon TPC detector at Fermilab.
This paper presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of lens-coupled Ti/Al bi-layer Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) featuring spiral absorbers that achieve high aperture efficiency and a 95% yield, demonstrating their potential for large-format millimeter-wavelength cameras.
This paper reports the successful commissioning of the Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy Experiment (RISE) at FRIB's BECOLA facility, which integrates new beamline components and laser systems to enable sensitive measurements of isotope shifts and hyperfine structure in short-lived isotopes, as demonstrated by initial tests on stable Al.
This study demonstrates that combining neutron depth profiling and neutron reflectometry provides a complementary, non-destructive approach to characterize the sub-30 nm gradient interphases between lithium metal and solid electrolytes across different length scales.