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E. Galyaev

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arXiv2020

A novel approach to building micromegas detectors enabled by precision manufacturing

Micromegas detectors are a relatively modern design concept for micropattern gas detectors, designed to handle high particle flux while providing high gain, high spatial resolution, and fast response times for a variety of radiation detection applications. Due to the advancement of industry, building a micromegas detector without advanced in-house capabilities is now possible. In this work, we present an innovative method to build micromegas detectors utilizing precision manufacturers to fabricate the core components. Two detectors were built using the newly described method and are experimentally validated.

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arXiv2020

Nonnegative Gaussian process tomography for generalized segmented planar detectors

The concept of Gaussian process tomography along with nonnegative constraints is applied in the context of high-resolution image reconstruction using segmented planar detectors with few readout channels.Expanding on the concept of 2-D projections onto strip-like readout segmentations, 3-D projections as well as more generalized detector segmentation and readout channel mappings are explored. A focus is placed on reconstructing dose distributions in proton therapy pencil beam scanning, and a fast, approximate approach to applying nonnegative constraints is developed and motivated for use in proton therapy beam imaging.

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arXiv2009

Results from the Commissioning of the ATLAS Pixel Detector with Cosmic data

The ATLAS pixel detector is the innermost detector of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. With approximately 80 million readout channels, the ATLAS silicon pixel detector is a high-acceptance, high-resolution, low-noise tracking device. Providing the desired refinement in charged track pattern recognition capability in order to meet the stringent track reconstruction requirements, the pixel detector largely defines the ability of ATLAS to effectively resolve primary and secondary vertices and perform efficient flavor tagging essential for discovery of new physics. Being the last sub-system installed in ATLAS by July 2007, the pixel detector was successfully connected, commissioned, and tested in situ while meeting an extremely tight schedule, and was ready to take data upon the projected turn-on of the LHC. Since fall 2008, the pixel detector has been included in the combined ATLAS detector operation, collecting cosmic muon data. Details from the pixel detector installation and commissioning, as well as details on calibration procedures and the results obtained with collected cosmic data, are presented along with a summary of the detector status.

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