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Characterization of a flexible a-Si:H detector for in vivo dosimetry in therapeutic x-ray beams

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Matthew James Large

BackgroundThe increasing use of complex and high dose-rate treatments in radiation therapy necessitates advanced detectors to provide accurate dosimetry. Rather than relying on pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) measurements alone, many countries are now ...

Wiley2024

Oligolithic Cross-task Optimizations across Isolated Workloads

Anastasia Ailamaki, Panagiotis Sioulas, Eleni Zapridou

Enterprises collect data in large volumes and leverage them to drive numerous concurrent decisions and business processes. Their teams deploy multiple applications that often operate concurrently on the same data and infrastructure but have widely differen ...

2024

First steps towards interlocking modular microfluidic cooling substrates (i-MμCS) for future silicon tracking detectors in High Energy Physics (HEP)

Philippe Renaud, Massimo Angeletti

In future High Energy Physics detectors, the coverage of large surfaces with silicon pixel chip sensors poses a challenge for the sensors positioning, for their cooling, assembly, and interconnection. The use of a cooling substrate on which the sensors are ...

2022

Humidity Sensors for High Energy Physics Applications: A Review

Sandro Carrara, Amar Kapic, Andromachi Tsirou

Modern silicon-based detectors for high-energy physics operate in an experimental environment with sub-zero temperatures. At those temperatures, even low traces of humidity will produce vapor condensation with damages to the detectors. Monitoring relative ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

MPA-SSA, design and test of a 65 nm ASIC-based system for particle tracking at HL-LHC featuring on-chip particle discrimination

Yusuf Leblebici, Davide Ceresa, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì

Particle tracking detectors for High Energy Physics need a new readout technique to cope with the increase of the collision rate foreseen for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade. In particular, the selection of interesting physics events at the first trigger s ...

IEEE2019

System Level simulation framework for the ASICs development of a novel particle physics detector

Yusuf Leblebici, Davide Ceresa, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì

The simulation of the passage of particles through matter using Monte Carlo methods is broadly used in the development of particle detectors for high energy physics experiments. To develop the readout electronics for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experim ...

IEEE2018

REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Particle Data Group

Kai Oliver Arras, Christophe Bauer, Olivier Schneider, Riddhiman Sarkar, Julien Lesgourgues, Florian Patrick Marie Daniel De la Barre De Nanteuil, Greig Alan Cowan, Varun Sharma, Frank Zimmermann, Lorena Gonçalves de Alcântara e Freitas Krikler, Vladimir Petrov

The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 2,873 new measurements from 758 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, lepton ...

American Physical Society2018

A Nine Decade Femtoampere Current to Frequency Converter

Evgenia Voulgari

Various applications require ultra-low current sensing. Some of these applications are related to ionizing radiation detection. Radiation monitoring is important in particle physics experiments, nuclear facilities, hadron therapy institutes and hospitals. ...

EPFL2017

Review of amorphous silicon based particle detectors: the quest for single particle detection

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) is attractive for radiation detectors because of its radiation resistance and processability over large areas with mature Si microfabrication techniques. While the use of a-Si:H for medical imaging has been very succ ...

Institute of Physics2016

Development of interconnected silicon micro-evaporators for the on-detector electronics cooling of the future ITS detector in the ALICE experiment at LHC

John Richard Thome, Alessandro Mapelli, Giulia Romagnoli, Andrea Francescon

The thermal management of the on-detector electronics and the development of low mass integrated cooling systems have become a crucial task in the design of silicon tracking detectors for high energy physics applications. The use of microfabricated ultra-t ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Instrument intercomparison in the pulsed neutron fieldsat the CERN HiRadMat facility

Daniel Perrin, Nikolaos Charitonidis

An intercomparison of the performances of active neutron detectors was carried out in pulsed neutron fields in the new HiRadMat facility at CERN. Five detectors were employed: four of them (two ionization chambers and two rem counters) are routinely employ ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Particle Data Group

Pierre Vogel, Christophe Bauer, Olivier Schneider, Greig Alan Cowan, Varun Sharma, Frank Zimmermann

The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 3,283 new measurements from 899 Japers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, lepton ...

Chinese Physical Soc2014

Application of micro-channel cooling to the local thermal management of detectors electronics for particle physics

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Giulia Romagnoli, Andrea Francescon

Micro-channel cooling is gaining considerable attention as an alternative technique for cooling of high energy physics detectors. This is of particular interest for future trackers, where large silicon surfaces are involved and the amount of material cross ...

Elsevier2013

A search for heavy long-lived staus in the LHCb detector at √s = 7 and 8 TeV

Thi Viet Nga La

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been producing pp collisions at 7 and 8 TeV since 2010 and promises a new era of discoveries in particle physics. One of its experiments, the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, was constructed to study CP vi ...

EPFL2013

Micro-channel cooling for high-energy physics particle detectors and electronics

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli

Micro-channel cooling is gaining considerable attention as an alternative technique for cooling of High-Energy Physics (HEP) detectors and Front-End (FE) electronics. This technology is being evaluated for future tracking devices, where material budget lim ...

IEEE2012

Scintillation Particle Detectors Based on Plastic Optical Fibres and Microfluidics

Alessandro Mapelli

This thesis presents the design, development, and experimental validation of two types of scintillation particle detectors with high spatial resolution. The first one is based on the well established scintillating fibre technology. It will complement the A ...

EPFL2011

Nanoscale Optical Detector with Single-Photon and Multiphoton Sensitivity

Francis Lévy, Francesco Marsili, Alessandro Gaggero

We present the first nanoscale (down to approximate to 50 x 50 nm(2)) detector displaying single-photon sensitivity and a nanosecond response. This type of nanodetector can also be operated in multiphoton mode, where the detection threshold can be set at N ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2010

Construction of the Inner Tracker and Sensitivity to the B°s -> [mu][mu] Decay at LHCb

Marc-Olivier Bettler

LHCb is one of the four main experiments hosted at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The LHC first started in September 2008 and, after a one-year hiccough, restarted in November 2009. In the course of three weeks, the HEP community witnessed the fi ...

EPFL2010

Review of Particle Physics

This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2158 new measurements from 551 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We also summa ...

2010

Physics and application of photon number resolving detectors based on superconducting parallel nanowires

Francesco Marsili, Alessandro Gaggero

The parallel nanowire detector (PND) is a photon number resolving (PNR) detector that uses spatial multiplexing on a subwavelength scale to provide a single electrical output proportional to the photon number. The basic structure of the PND is the parallel ...

2009