Conveners
Instrumentación: Aplicaciones y Nuclear
- Gabriela Llosa (IFIC-CSIC)
Instrumentación: Astropartículas y Partículas
- Ivan Vila Alvarez (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))
Instrumentación: Network discussions
- Inés Gil Botella (CIEMAT)
- Ivan Vila Alvarez (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))
- Cesar Domingo-Pardo (IFIC (CSIC-University of Valencia))
Compton imaging represents a promising technique for Prompt Gamma (PG) imaging for range verification in hadron therapy (HT) treatments. As for neutron monitoring, a drawback of most of the available systems is that only integral off-field neutron-fluence values are registered but no information is obtained from its spatial origin. Dual neutron and gamma imaging is also of prime interest for...
Development of a new low-cost Molecular Imaging detector for breast cancer screening, using silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and tiled Cesium Iodide (CsI) scintillators. The detector leverages SiPMs for their high sensitivity and compact size, while CsI scintillators are used to efficiently convert X-rays into visible light. The tiling of the scintillators enables flexible detector...
Accurate timing characterization of radiation events is crucial in nuclear medicine, particularly for Positron Emission Tomography (PET). In PET, achieving a good coincidence resolving time (CRT) between detector pairs enhances the Time-of-Flight (TOF) information for each detected coincidence, which significantly improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the images. This study introduces a method...
Neutrons are a highly penetrating type of radiation that can significantly contribute to the total absorbed dose in the human body. Monitoring neutron dose rates is essential for assessing the risk to workers, patients, and the public, particularly in particle therapy centers. Such treatments, often recommended for young and pediatric patients, offer the benefits of a reduced overall dose and...
The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a planned gaseous detector helioscope designed to detect axions, hypothetical particles proposed as a solution for the strong CP problem, which have also been theorised to be dark matter candidates. A smaller prototype, BabyIAXO, is currently in manufacturing and is expected to be installed at DESY (Hamburg, Germany). A baseline detector prototype,...
Abstract
In the framework of the HISTARS (HIE-ISOLDE Timing Array for Reaction Studies) project at ISOLDE/CERN it is planned to install a $\gamma$-ray array for fast-timing measurements. State-of-the-art crystals are LaBr$_3$(Ce)[1][2][3] or CeBr$_3$[4][5] inorganic scintillators, which are customarily fitted with fast photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) or SiPMs.
In this work, we have...
Optical Time Projection Chambers (opTPCs) equipped with high-resolution cameras enable the reconstruction of ionization tracks, improving particle detection and identification, making them ideal for studying complex and rare nuclear reactions. The Multilayer Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (MThGEMs) enhance the opTPC's performance by amplifying electrons and the scintillation light produced...
Neutrons are continuously produced as secondary radiation from cosmic-ray interactions in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Characterizing these secondary neutrons has implications across multiple fields, including environmental radioactivity [1], single event upsets (SEUs) in microelectronics [2], cosmic-ray physics, and space weather [3].
The High Efficiency Neutron Spectrometry Array (HENSA)...
SBND is a time-projection chamber that collects ionisation electrons and scintillation photons from liquid argon (LArTPC). It is located 110 m downstream the Booster Neutrino Beam target at Fermilab and began taking data this year. The SBND physics program is focused on neutrino-argon cross-sections and beyond the Standard Model searches (sterile neutrinos, heavy neutral leptons, light dark...
The Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx) will search for the axion in the yet unexplored mass range 330-460 micro-eV. Operating in the W-band (75-100 GHz) will combine, for the first time, a cavity haloscope in a strong magnetic field with broadband KIDs arrays to detect the polarization signature of the axion. CADEx will be installed at the mK cryostat of the Canfranc Underground...
The CTA Observatory aims to contribute to the development of gamma-ray astronomy by improving the sensitivity of current Cherenkov telescopes by an order of magnitude. To achieve this, two arrays of telescopes will be constructed: one at Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma, and the other at Cerro Paranal in Chile. Each array will include three types of telescopes: small ones for gamma-ray...
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have become an excellent option for photon detection, emerging as a strong alternative to traditional photomultiplier tubes in various fields of high-energy physics. Although they offer numerous advantages, such as high gain, excellent temporal resolution, and insensitivity to magnetic fields, SiPMs also have some drawbacks, the most notable being correlated...
The rapid evolution in high-luminosity colliders necessitates ultra-precise timing detectors capable of picosecond-level accuracy. This presentation explores the development of a distributed timing architecture based on deterministic protocols, as the High Accuracy Default PTP Profile of IEEE1588-2019 – a.k.a. White Rabbit (WR), to address stringent timing demands in next-generation particle...
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC ) faces its High Luminosity fase (HL-LHC) with an ambitious detector upgrade program. CIEMAT's group activities focus on the Barrel Muon Drift Tubes (DT) subdetector electronics, which will be completely replaced to operate during HL-LHC. The upgraded architecture ships via optical links (lpGBT, VTRX+) all signals to the backend,...
The Technological Unit of ICCUB is currently providing several research groups at the institute with services such as instrumentation and software development to support their contributions to international collaborations. Many developments in instrumentation are related to photosensors, microelectronics, and space technology, with key contributions to international projects such as LHCb, CTA,...
