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Effet Tcherenkov

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Quantum engineering and detection of advanced radiation beams

Veronica Leccese

Controlling and shaping radiation beams is fundamental for a better understanding of radiation-matter interaction and advancing experimental techniques for material characterization at high spatial resolution. In particular, the current trend in the miniat ...

EPFL2023

Amorphous Silicon Based Microchannel Plates for Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography

Samira Alexandra Frey

Microchannel plates fabricated from hydrogenated amorphous silicon (AMCPs) are a promising alternative to conventional lead glass microchannel plates. Their main advantages lie in their cheaper and more flexible fabrication processes, allowing for adaptabl ...

EPFL2023

Clinical efficacy of ONC201 in H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline gliomas is driven by disruption of integrated metabolic and epigenetic pathways

Sebastian Martin Waszak

H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma (DMG) patients have no proven effective therapies. ONC201 has recently demonstrated efficacy in these patients, but the mechanism behind this remains unknown. We assessed clinical outcomes, tumor sequencing, and tissue/ ...

2023

Method and setup for light detection and ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anton Lukashchuk

A method and a setup for light detection and ranging are disclosed. The setup is configured to carry out the following method: generating signal radiation (S) at multiple signal frequencies (fs) with an optical signal source (1), wherein the signal radiati ...

2023

Status of the K-EUSO Orbital Detector of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

Andrii Neronov

K-EUSO (KLYPVE-EUSO) is a planned orbital mission aimed at studying ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by detecting fluorescence and Cherenkov light emitted by extensive air showers in the nocturnal atmosphere of Earth in the ultraviolet (UV) range. Th ...

MDPI2022

Origin of High-Frequency Radiation During Laboratory Earthquakes

François Xavier Thibault Passelègue

We monitor dynamic rupture propagation during laboratory stick-slip experiments performed on saw-cut Westerly granite under upper crustal conditions (10-90 MPa). Spectral analysis of high-frequency acoustic waveforms provided evidence that energy radiation ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2019

Dual comb generation in a monochromatically driven crystalline microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

Recent works on Kerr frequency combs demonstrated the possibility to simultaneously generate multiple soliton states with different group velocities in a single microresonator, which could be beneficial for many applications utilizing dual-comb systems. In ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Nicola Vianello, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Roberto Maurizio

Divertor detachment is explored on the TCV tokamak in alternative magnetic geometries. Starting from typical TCV single-null shapes, the poloidal flux expansion at the outer strikepoint is varied by a factor of 10 to investigate the X-divertor characterist ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Topological Acoustic Polaritons: Robust Sound Manipulation at the Subwavelength Scale

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

Topological insulators, a hallmark of condensed matter physics, have recently reached the classical realm of acoustic waves. A remarkable property of time-reversal invariant topological insulators is the presence of unidirectional spin-polarized propagatio ...

Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft2017

High gradient linac for proton therapy

Alexej Grudiev, Stefano Benedetti

Proposed for the first time almost 30 years ago, the research on radio frequency linacs for hadron therapy experienced a sparkling interest in the past decade. The different projects found a common ground on a relatively high rf operating frequency of 3 GH ...

2017

Study of a prototype module of a precision time-of-flight detector for particle identification at low momentum

Lucía Castillo García

In this thesis, Time Of internally Reflected Cherenkov light detector (TORCH), proposed for the LHCb Upgrade to perform three-sigma separation between kaon and pion up to 10 GeV/c, was studied. TORCH is designed to add significant particle identification c ...

EPFL2016

Optical Thickness Measurements of Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation in the X2 Expansion Tube

Umar Sheikh

Experiments were conducted in the X2 expansion tube to measure vacuum ultraviolet radiation from shock layers representative of reentry conditions at flight equivalent velocities of 10.0 and 12.2 km/s. Cylindrical models of varying lengths were used to mak ...

2016

Visualization of Terahertz radiation on silicon-based CCD and CMOS sensor at high resolution

Christoph Peter Hauri

Low frequency THz radiation is visualized by means of a charged-coupled device designed for optical frequencies and a CMOS sensor. This technological advance opens novel opportunities in THz imaging as it offers smallest pixel size and large chip size at l ...

Ieee2016

Quenching the scintillation in CF4 Cherenkov gas radiator

Christoph Frei

CF4 is used as a Cherenkov gas radiator in one of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors at the LHCb experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. CF4 is well known to have a high scintillation photon yield in the near and far VUV, UV and in the visible wave ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Micro-channel plate photon detector studies for the TORCH detector

Christoph Frei

The Time Of internally Reflected Cherenkov light (TORCH) detector is under development. Charged particle tracks passing through a 1 cm plate of quartz will generate the Cherenkov photons, and their arrival will be timed by an array of micro-channel plate p ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

The TORCH PMT: a close packing, multi-anode, long life MCP-PMT for Cherenkov applications

Christoph Frei

Photek (U.K.) and the TORCH collaboration are undertaking a three year development program to produce a novel square MCP-PMT for single photon detection. The TORCH detector aims to provide particle identification in the 2-10 GeV/c momentum range, using a T ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Development of scalable electronics for the TORCH time-of-flight detector

Christoph Frei

The TORCH detector is proposed for the low-momentum particle identification upgrade of the LHCb experiment. It combines Time-Of-Flight and Cherenkov techniques to achieve charged particle separation up to 10 GeV/c. This requires a time resolution of 70 ps ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Search for long-lived heavy charged particles using a ring imaging Cherenkov technique at LHCb

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Renato Quagliani, Bastien Luca Muster, Maria Vieites Diaz, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Julien Rouvinet, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Alessandro Mapelli

A search is performed for heavy long-lived charged particles using 3.0 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions collected at root s = 7 and 8 TeV with the LHCb detector. The search is mainly based on the response of the ring imaging Cherenkov detectors to distin ...

Springer2015

Overview of the FTU results

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Duccio Testa, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Cristian Galperti, Gabriele Grosso, Doohyun Kim, Dávid Wágner, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Jonathan Rossel

Since the 2012 IAEA-FEC Conference, FTU operations have been largely devoted to runaway electrons generation and control, to the exploitation of the 140 GHz electron cyclotron (EC) system and to liquid metal limiter elements. Experiments on runaway electro ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

A nanoscale gigahertz source realized with Josephson scanning tunneling microscopy

Klaus Kern, Matthias Alexander Eltschka

Using the AC Josephson effect in the superconductor-vacuum-superconductor tunnel junction of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), we demonstrate the generation of GHz radiation. With the macroscopic STM tip acting as a lambda/4-monopole antenna, we first ...

Amer Inst Physics2015