The ALICE experiment at CERN has undergone a major upgrade during the Long Shutdown
2 of the LHC during 2019–2021. A key element is the installation of the new Inner Tracking …

Abstract “A Craftsman Must Sharpen His Tools to Do His Job,” said Confucius. Nuclear
detection and readout techniques are the foundation of particle physics, nuclear physics …

With the construction of the European Spallation Source, a remarkable opportunity has
emerged to conduct high sensitivity searches for neutron oscillations, including a first search …

Developments in quantum technologies in the last decades have led to a wide range of
applications, but have also resulted in numerous novel approaches to explore the low …

This work reviews various methods used to minimize the probability of discharge occurrence
in MPGDs or to mitigate the effect of spark discharges on the detector system. These include …

ALICE is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its
main tracking and particle-identification detector is a large volume Time Projection Chamber …

Hadron spectroscopy, the driving force of high-energy physics in its early decades, has
experienced a renaissance in interest over the past 20 years due to the discovery of scores …

Abstract The Multi-purpose Time Projection Chamber (TPC) for nuclear AsTrophysical and
Exotic beam experiments (MATE) is being upgraded for the decay and active target …

We present avalanche gain and associated resolution measurements recorded with a 4 He:
CO 2 (70: 30) gas mixture and pure SF 6, a Negative Ion (NI) gas. SF 6 is of particular …

Measuring the energy loss and mass of highly ionizing particles predicted by theories from
beyond the Standard Model poses considerable challenges to conventional detection …