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TORCH-a Cherenkov based time-of-flight detector

TORCH is an innovative high-precision time-of-flight system to provide particle identification in the difficult intermediate momentum region up to 10 GeV/c, It is also suitable for large-area applications. The detector provides a time-of-flight measurement ...

Elsevier Science B.V.2014

Measurements of the masses and widths of the (2455) and (2520) baryons

Olivier Schneider, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, Jun Yong Kim

We present measurements of the masses and decay widths of the baryonic states (2455) and (2520) using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 711 fb- 1 collected with the detector at the KEKB e e- asymmetric- energy collider operating at ...

American Physical Society2014

Energy reconstruction methods in the IceCube neutrino telescope

Matthias Wolf, Mark Tobin, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

Accurate measurement of neutrino energies is essential to many of the scientific goals of large-volume neutrino telescopes. The fundamental observable in such detectors is the Cherenkov light produced by the transit through a medium of charged particles cr ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

Search for non-relativistic magnetic monopoles with IceCube

Matthias Wolf, Mark Tobin, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a large Cherenkov detector instrumenting of Antarctic ice. The detector can be used to search for signatures of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. Here, we describe the search for non-relativistic, magnetic mono ...

Springer2014

SU-8 as a Material for Microfabricated Particle Physics Detectors

Philippe Renaud, Sébastien Jiguet, Alessandro Mapelli, Pietro Maoddi

Several recent detector technologies developed for particle physics applications are based on microfabricated structures. Detectors built with this approach generally exhibit the overall best performance in terms of spatial and time resolution. Many proper ...

MDPI2014

Tissue and cellular imaging

Demetri Psaltis, Ye Pu, Ye Pu, Chia-Lung Hsieh, Xin Yang

Systems and methods for imaging ear tissue include: directing illumination radiation to pass through an intact biological structure and be incident on ear tissue that does not include an exogenous fluorophore, at a plurality of locations, the illumination ...

2013

Measurement of South Pole ice transparency with the IceCube LED calibration system

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, approximately 1 km(3) in size, is now complete with 86 strings deployed in the Antarctic ice. IceCube detects the Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged particles passing through or created in the ice. To realize the full ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Design and operation of FACT - the first G-APD Cherenkov telescope

Mathieu Ribordy, Camille Haller, Thomas Günther Bretz

The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) is designed to detect cosmic gamma-rays with energies from several hundred GeV up to about 10 TeV using the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. In contrast to former or existing telescopes, the camera of the ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013