Conveners
Detectors and Instrumentation: 1
- Nigel Watson (University of Birmingham (GB))
Detectors and Instrumentation: 2
- Sara Alderweireldt (The University of Edinburgh (GB))
Detectors and Instrumentation: 3
- Pedro Teixeira-Dias (RHUL - Royal Holloway, University of London)
Description
Highlighting innovations in detector technologies and instrumentation, this track covers advancements in sensor materials, electronics, data acquisition systems, and radiation hardness. Discussions will emphasise how these developments enable groundbreaking physics measurements across diverse experimental platforms.
The LiquidO Consortium is bringing a novel approach to particle detection by using opaque scintillator to achieve self-segmentation down to the millimetre scale. Opacity via short scattering length stochastically confines scintillation photons close to the point of production and arrays of wavelength-shifting fibres trap and transmit the light to, typically, silicon photomultipliers.
At...
The rich physics program at EIC reuqires excellent Particle Identification (PID) over a
large momentum and angle range. Hence, a key component of the EIC detector ePIC are
advanced ToF (Time of Flight) and Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors. In addi-
tion, a new type of Cherenkov detector will be used which is called high-performance
DIRC (hpDIRC) detector. It utilizes internally...
The conclusion of the MINOS neutrino experiment created the availability of hundreds of Hamamatsu Multianode Photomultiplier tubes. This talk will detail a new electronics system encompassing power and readout for the R5900-00-M64 model tailored to the updated requirements of contemporary and future experimental particle physics. It comprises exclusively low voltage input requirements, low...
The Boulby UnderGround Screening (BUGS) facility is a world-class materials screening lab based at the Boulby Underground Laboratory in North Yorkshire. The facility has been, and continues to be used for screening a wide variety of parts and materials prior to their use in low background experiments in the UK and worldwide. The BUGS facility is continuously improving and currently houses a...
LiquidO is a novel detector technology that uses the stochastic confinement of scintillator light in an opaque medium to increase particle identification efficiency. To collect this light a lattice of wavelength-shifting fibers runs through the medium, which are then read out using SiPMs. The unique particle identification down to the MeV scale and subsequent background rejection capabilities...
The System for on-Axis Neutrino Detection (SAND), part of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), is designed to monitor the long-term stability of the neutrino beam at Fermilab. SAND reuses the lead scintillating-fiber electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of the KLOE experiment with excellent time and energy resolutions. The calorimeter is read-out by approximately 5000 PMTs requiring...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will allow for the detection of low-energy neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae, providing critical insights into core-collapse supernova processes such as neutronization and accretion. However, reconstructing these interactions in liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) presents significant challenges due to the low-energy...
As part of the upgrades to the ATLAS detector to be performed during Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), which is scheduled from 2026-2030, the current ATLAS Inner Detector (ID), is to be replaced with an all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk). The ITk is comprised of an inner silicon pixel and outer silicon strip detector and will provide higher radiation tolerance, granularity, and readout rate, to cope with...
Achieving unprecedented material radiopurity is paramount for ultralow background (ULB) physics experiments searching for rare events. In the BoulB laboratory, we have established a dedicated Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) facility to address this challenge. This presentation will first provide a concise overview of ICP-MS fundamentals. Subsequently, we will detail our...
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a direct detection experiment with the primary aim of searching for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), one of the leading candidates for dark matter. Central to this search is the ability to identify and distinguish signals from any background events, with neutron induced signals presenting a particular challenge due to their similarity to those produced by WIMPs....
Recent advancements in laser technology have made it possible to probe the non-perturbative regime of quantum electrodynamics in strong electromagnetic fields. This regime, also known as strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SFQED), is still largely unexplored. The LUXE experiment planned at DESY will study the transition into the SFQED regime. SFQED interactions, such as non-linear Compton...
Owing to their single photon sensitivity and fast rise time micro-channel-plate photomultipliers (MCP-PMT) make a good candidate for photon detectors for the proposed Time Of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light detector (TORCH) detector. TORCH has a target time resolution per photon of approximately $70$\,ps, required to achieve a $3\sigma$ separation of pions and kaons at $10$ GeV/$c$...
DarkSide-20k is a direct dark matter detection experiment which employs a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to search for dark matter interactions. A principal background for these searches in DarkSide-20k are radiogenic neutrons introduced by contaminations in the detector material. To reduce this background, DarkSide-20k tags neutron interactions in an Inner Veto detector...
The next generation of long baseline atom interferometers is under construction; these will look for ultralight dark matter and mid-band gravitational waves. Atom interferometers are also susceptible to the Coriolis force, which can cause unwanted phase shifts and obscure signals. The design and characterisation of an ultra-high-vacuum bottom reflecting mirror system for the active...
High-voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) technology is one of the latest technologies used for tracking detectors. They provide cost-effective high radiation tolerance, fast charge collection and low power consumption. HV-CMOS is a full commercial process that is suitable for large-area applications. The integrated sensor and readout design also allow for much easier detector assembly, compared to the...
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have been chosen as the dedicated optical readout technology for the upcoming DarkSide-20k experiment. This novel technology is being adopted as a replacement for photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) in the DarkSide-20k detector, due to the higher quantum efficiency, lower radiopurity and reduced noise levels at cryogenic temperatures of SiPMs relative to PMTs....
The XENON-LUX-ZEPLIN-DARWIN (XLZD) Experiment will search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using a 60-80T liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXe-TPC) and 1kT Outer Detector (OD) for suppression of neutron background which is indistinguishable from WIMPs signals. The optimisation of the OD in such a detector like XLZD is crucial and is examined in detail here using a Geant4...
BUTTON is a water medium scale WbLS and Cherenkov technology testbed. It is designed to prove the capabilities of advanced photosensors and fill media including water based liquid scintillator (WbLS) in a low background facility. BUTTON features a volume of 30 m^3 which has been designed with specially compatible materials for use with Gadolinium (Gd) doped water, WbLS and also Gd doped WbLS....
Several search approaches have been employed for Dark Matter (DM), with โdirect detectionโ being one of the most prominent. It aims to observe DM from the Milky Way halo via its coherent elastic scattering off a nucleus.
Electroformed copper (EFCu) is a material of choice for large-scale detectors thanks to its favorable radiochemical, thermal, and electrical properties. To fulfil the...
โโQUEST-DMC aims to utilise the tiny ($10^{-7}$ eV) energy gap in superfluid helium-3 to perform a low threshold dark matter search, capable of probing the lowest particle dark matter masses. The detector consists of a superfluid bolometer cell, instrumented with nanowire resonators - which measure quasiparticle damping forces from energy deposits. The nanowires are read out using quantum...
