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Advanced Detectors for Nuclear, High Energy and Astroparticle Physics

Proceedings of ADNHEAP 2017

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Saikat Biswas

    1. Center for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science, Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

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  2. Supriya Das

    1. Center for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science, Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

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  3. Sanjay Kumar Ghosh

    1. Center for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science, Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

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  • Showcases outstanding developments and contributions in nuclear physics
  • Provides basics and advancement of detectors for accelerator-based high energy physics and non-accelerator particle physics
  • Provides an overview of the R&D activities being pursued in India on astroparticle physics

Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Physics (SPPHY, volume 201)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Review

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Silicon Sensors in Experimental High Energy Physics Experiments

      • Ashutosh Bhardwaj, Geetika Jain, Kirti Ranjan
      Pages 3-13

    3. Detectors for Nuclear Physics

      • Tilak Kumar Ghosh
      Pages 15-27

    4. Detector Development Activities at IUAC

      • Akhil Jhingan
      Pages 29-47

    5. PET: A High Threshold Nuclear Track Detector (NTD) for Rare Event Search

      • Atanu Maulik
      Pages 49-58

    6. Detectors for Non-accelerator Particle Physics

      • B. Satyanarayana
      Pages 59-65

    7. Device Physics Simulation of Gaseous Ionization Detectors

      • Supratik Mukhopadhyay
      Pages 67-78

  3. Contributory Oral

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Experimental Studies of Ion Backflow for a Bulk Micromegas Detector Using Various Argon-Based Gas Mixtures

      • Prasant Kumar Rout, Deb Sankar Bhattacharya, Purba Bhattacharya, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Sudeb Bhattacharya, Nayana Majumdar et al.
      Pages 81-90

    3. Study of Characteristics of Quadruple GEM Detector with Different Gas Flow Rates

      • Sagarika Swain, P. K. Sahu, Deb Sankar Bhattacharya, S. Sahu
      Pages 91-96

    4. Comparison of Si, Ge, and Diamond Sensors for Using It in HEP Experiments

      • Shyam Kumar, Raghava Varma, K. Das Gupta, Pradeep Sarin, S. K. Deb
      Pages 97-105

    5. An Efficient Approach to Manage DMA Descriptors and Evaluate PCIe-Based DMA Performance for ALICE Common Readout Unit (CRU)

      • S. Mukherjee, F. Costa, R. Paul, A. Chakrabarti, S. A. Khan, J. Mitra et al.
      Pages 107-118

    6. Sensitivity of ICAL to TeV Gamma Rays at INO

      • Nitali Dash, Reetanjali Moharana
      Pages 119-127

    7. Qualification of Eco-Friendly Gas Mixture for Avalanche Mode Operation of RPC

      • Jaydeep Datta, Abhik Jash, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay
      Pages 129-136

    8. Analysis of Ultra-High-Energy Muons at INO-ICAL Using Pair-Meter Technique

      • Jaydip Singh, Srishti Nagu, Jyotsna Singh
      Pages 137-145

    9. Characteristic Simulations of Stack of Four Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs)

      • Mriganka M. Mondal, Sagarika Swain, P. K. Sahu, S. N. Nayak
      Pages 147-156

    10. Performance Study of Muon Detector with CBM Experiment at FAIR

      • Ekata Nandy, Subhasis Chattopadhyay
      Pages 157-165

    11. Effect of Electric Field and Gas Mixture on RPC Time Resolution

      • Abhik Jash, Sridhar Tripathy, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Satyajit Saha, Subhasis Chattopadhyay
      Pages 167-174

    12. GEANT4 Simulation for Imaging of High-Z Materials Using Cosmic Ray Muons

      • Sridhar Tripathy, Abhik Jash, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Sandip Sarkar, Satyajit Saha
      Pages 175-183
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About this book

The book presents high-quality papers presented at a national conference on ‘Advanced Detectors for Nuclear, High Energy and Astroparticle Physics’. The conference was organized to commemorate 100 years of Bose Institute. The book is based on the theme of the conference and provides a clear picture of basics and advancement of detectors for nuclear physics, high-energy physics and astroparticle physics together. The topics covered in the book include detectors for accelerator-based high energy physics; detectors for non-accelerator particle physics; nuclear physics detectors; detection techniques in astroparticle physics and dark matter; and applications and simulations. The book will be a good reference for researchers and industrial personnel working in the area of nuclear and astroparticle physics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science, Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

    Saikat Biswas, Supriya Das, Sanjay Kumar Ghosh

About the editors

Saikat Biswas is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Astroparticle Physics & Space Science (CAPSS), Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. At Bose Institute, he is mainly involved in TPC upgrade for ALICE experiment at CERN and CBM-Muon Chamber. He did his Ph.D. from University of Calcutta in 2011. He initiated his career by joining Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in September 2005 and completed his Ph.D work in India based Neutrino Observatory (INO) ICAL experiment. Dr. Biswas has got 29 journal publications, 29 conference papers, 1 book chapter, and 30 talks to his credit. He received the DST-SERB Ramanujan Fellowship award in 2012. He worked as Scientific Officer in National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar from 2013 to 2015. At Bose Institute, he is involved in the stability study of the GEM detector and development of other gaseous and scintillator detectors. His research interests are instrumentation for experimental high-energy physics, detection of cosmic ray and medical imaging.

Supriya Das is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. He started his scientific career as a doctoral student at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata working in the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. He received PhD degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2007. His current research areas are Relativistic Heavy Ion Collision, Quark-Hadron Phase transition, Signatures of QGP, Detection of cosmic ray air showers and R & D with nuclear detectors.

Sanjay Kumar Ghosh is Senior Professor, Physics at Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. He did his PhD from Institute of Physics, 1996. His research interest areas are Quark-Hadron Phase Transition, Relativistic heavy ion collision, Early Universe Phase transition, Neutron Star/Quark Star, Effective models, Cosmic Ray, Atmospheric Physics. He has severalpublications to his credit. 

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