Physics and technology of time-of-flight PET detectors

DR Schaart - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The imaging performance of clinical positron emission tomography (PET) systems has
evolved impressively during the last∼ 15 years. A main driver of these improvements has …

Unique capabilities and applications of Microchannel Plate (MCP) detectors with Medipix/Timepix readout

AS Tremsin, JV Vallerga - Radiation Measurements, 2020 - Elsevier
The development of highly pixelated fast Medipix/Timepix readout enabled a large number
of novel hybrid detectors, where incoming particles/photons are initially converted into a …

MeV-scale performance of water-based and pure liquid scintillator detectors

BJ Land, Z Bagdasarian, J Caravaca, M Smiley, M Yeh… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
This paper presents studies of the performance of water-based liquid scintillators (WbLS) in
both 1-kt and 50-kt detectors. Performance is evaluated in comparison to both pure water …

A review of NEST models, and their application to improvement of particle identification in liquid xenon experiments

M Szydagis, J Balajthy, GA Block, JP Brodsky… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper discusses microphysical simulation of interactions in liquid xenon, the active
detector medium in many leading rare-event physics searches, and describes experimental …

A brief technical history of the large-area picosecond photodetector (LAPPD) collaboration

BW Adams, K Attenkofer, M Bogdan, K Byrum… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
The Large Area Picosecond PhotoDetector (LAPPD) Collaboration was formed in 2009 to
develop large-area photodetectors capable of time resolutions measured in pico-seconds …

Overview of spatial and timing resolution of event counting detectors with microchannel plates

AS Tremsin, JV Vallerga, OHW Siegmund - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Event counting detectors with Microchannel Plates (MCPs) rely on conversion of incoming
particles (photons, electrons, neutrons, atoms, ions) into an output charge of 10 3–10 7 …

Report of the topical group on neutrino properties for snowmass 2021

C Giunti, J Gruszko, B Jones, L Kaufman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Neutrinos are the most elusive among the known elementary particles, because of their
feeble interactions with ordinary matter. They are also the most mysterious, because of their …

[HTML][HTML] Low-dose TOF-PET based on surface electron production in dielectric laminar MCPs

K Domurat-Sousa, C Poe, HJ Frisch, BW Adams… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present simulations of whole-body low-dose time-of-flight positron emission tomography
(TOF-PET) based on the direct surface production (Domurat-Sousa et al., 2023) by 511 keV …

Deployment of Water-based Liquid Scintillator in the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment

M Ascencio-Sosa, Z Bagdasarian… - Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a 26-ton water
Cherenkov neutrino detector installed on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. Its …

Separating double-beta decay events from solar neutrino interactions in a kiloton-scale liquid scintillator detector by fast timing

A Elagin, HJ Frisch, B Naranjo, J Ouellet… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a technique for separating nuclear double beta decay (β β-decay) events from
background neutrino interactions due to 8 B decays in the sun. This background becomes …