297,682 research outputs found
Three-Dimensional Triplet Tracking for LHC and Future High Rate Experiments
The hit combinatorial problem is a main challenge for track reconstruction
and triggering at high rate experiments. At hadron colliders the dominant
fraction of hits is due to low momentum tracks for which multiple scattering
(MS) effects dominate the hit resolution. MS is also the dominating source for
hit confusion and track uncertainties in low energy precision experiments. In
all such environments, where MS dominates, track reconstruction and fitting can
be largely simplified by using three-dimensional (3D) hit-triplets as provided
by pixel detectors. This simplification is possible since track uncertainties
are solely determined by MS if high precision spatial information is provided.
Fitting of hit-triplets is especially simple for tracking detectors in
solenoidal magnetic fields. The over-constrained 3D-triplet method provides a
complete set of track parameters and is robust against fake hit combinations.
The triplet method is ideally suited for pixel detectors where hits can be
treated as 3D-space points. With the advent of relatively cheap and
industrially available CMOS-sensors the construction of highly granular full
scale pixel tracking detectors seems to be possible also for experiments at LHC
or future high energy (hadron) colliders. In this paper tracking performance
studies for full-scale pixel detectors, including their optimisation for
3D-triplet tracking, are presented. The results obtained for different types of
tracker geometries and different reconstruction methods are compared. The
potential of reducing the number of tracking layers and -- along with that --
the material budget using this new tracking concept is discussed. The
possibility of using 3D-triplet tracking for triggering and fast online
reconstruction is highlighted.Comment: Proceedings of the WIT2014 Workshop on Intelligent Tracking. 10
Pages, 8 figures. Submitted to JINS
An Electron-Tracking Compton Telescope for a Survey of the Deep Universe by MeV gamma-rays
Photon imaging for MeV gammas has serious difficulties due to huge
backgrounds and unclearness in images, which are originated from incompleteness
in determining the physical parameters of Compton scattering in detection,
e.g., lack of the directional information of the recoil electrons. The recent
major mission/instrument in the MeV band, Compton Gamma Ray
Observatory/COMPTEL, which was Compton Camera (CC), detected mere
persistent sources. It is in stark contrast with 2000 sources in the GeV
band. Here we report the performance of an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera
(ETCC), and prove that it has a good potential to break through this stagnation
in MeV gamma-ray astronomy. The ETCC provides all the parameters of
Compton-scattering by measuring 3-D recoil electron tracks; then the Scatter
Plane Deviation (SPD) lost in CCs is recovered. The energy loss rate (dE/dx),
which CCs cannot measure, is also obtained, and is found to be indeed helpful
to reduce the background under conditions similar to space. Accordingly the
significance in gamma detection is improved severalfold. On the other hand, SPD
is essential to determine the point-spread function (PSF) quantitatively. The
SPD resolution is improved close to the theoretical limit for multiple
scattering of recoil electrons. With such a well-determined PSF, we demonstrate
for the first time that it is possible to provide reliable sensitivity in
Compton imaging without utilizing an optimization algorithm. As such, this
study highlights the fundamental weak-points of CCs. In contrast we demonstrate
the possibility of ETCC reaching the sensitivity below erg
cm s at 1 MeV.Comment: 19 pages, 12 figures, Accepted to the Astrophysical Journa
Increasing Compression Ratio of Low Complexity Compressive Sensing Video Encoder with Application-Aware Configurable Mechanism
With the development of embedded video acquisition nodes and wireless video
surveillance systems, traditional video coding methods could not meet the needs
of less computing complexity any more, as well as the urgent power consumption.
So, a low-complexity compressive sensing video encoder framework with
application-aware configurable mechanism is proposed in this paper, where novel
encoding methods are exploited based on the practical purposes of the real
applications to reduce the coding complexity effectively and improve the
compression ratio (CR). Moreover, the group of processing (GOP) size and the
measurement matrix size can be configured on the encoder side according to the
post-analysis requirements of an application example of object tracking to
increase the CR of encoder as best as possible. Simulations show the proposed
framework of encoder could achieve 60X of CR when the tracking successful rate
(SR) is still keeping above 90%.Comment: 5 pages with 6figures and 1 table,conferenc
A Study of a Mini-drift GEM Tracking Detector
A GEM tracking detector with an extended drift region has been studied as
part of an effort to develop new tracking detectors for future experiments at
RHIC and for the Electron Ion Collider that is being planned for BNL or JLAB.
The detector consists of a triple GEM stack with a small drift region that was
operated in a mini TPC type configuration. Both the position and arrival time
of the charge deposited in the drift region were measured on the readout plane
which allowed the reconstruction of a short vector for the track traversing the
chamber. The resulting position and angle information from the vector could
then be used to improve the position resolution of the detector for larger
angle tracks, which deteriorates rapidly with increasing angle for conventional
GEM tracking detectors using only charge centroid information. Two types of
readout planes were studied. One was a COMPASS style readout plane with 400
micron pitch XY strips and the other consisted of 2x10mm2 chevron pads. The
detector was studied in test beams at Fermilab and CERN, along with additional
measurements in the lab, in order to determine its position and angular
resolution for incident track angles up to 45 degrees. Several algorithms were
studied for reconstructing the vector using the position and timing information
in order to optimize the position and angular resolution of the detector for
the different readout planes. Applications for large angle tracking detectors
at RHIC and EIC are also discussed.Comment: Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Scienc
Readout of GEM Detectors Using the Medipix2 CMOS Pixel Chip
We have operated a Medipix2 CMOS readout chip, with amplifying, shaping and
charge discriminating front-end electronics integrated on the pixel-level, as a
highly segmented direct charge collecting anode in a three-stage gas electron
multiplier (Triple-GEM) to detect the ionization from Fe X-rays and
electrons from Ru. The device allows to perform moderate energy
spectroscopy measurements (20 % FWHM at 5.9 keV -rays) using only digital
readout and two discriminator thresholds. Being a truly 2D-detector, it allows
to observe individual clusters of minimum ionizing charged particles in
(70:30) and (70:30) mixtures and to achieve excellent
spatial resolution for position reconstruction of primary clusters down to
, based on the binary centroid determination method.Comment: 18 pages, 14 pictures. submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods
in Physics Research
Low-Cost Motility Tracking System (LOCOMOTIS) for time-lapse microscopy applications and cell visualisation
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Direct visualisation of cells for the purpose of studying their motility has typically required expensive microscopy equipment. However, recent advances in digital sensors mean that it is now possible to image cells for a fraction of the price of a standard microscope. Along with low-cost imaging there has also been a large increase in the availability of high quality, open-source analysis programs. In this study we describe the development and performance of an expandable cell motility system employing inexpensive, commercially available digital USB microscopes to image various cell types using time-lapse and perform tracking assays in proof-of-concept experiments. With this system we were able to measure and record three separate assays simultaneously on one personal computer using identical microscopes, and obtained tracking results comparable in quality to those from other studies that used standard, more expensive, equipment. The microscopes used in our system were capable of a maximum magnification of 413.6x. Although resolution was lower than that of a standard inverted microscope we found this difference to be indistinguishable at the magnification chosen for cell tracking experiments (206.8x). In preliminary cell culture experiments using our system, velocities (mean mm/min ± SE) of 0.81±0.01 (Biomphalaria glabrata hemocytes on uncoated plates), 1.17±0.004 (MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells), 1.24±0.006 (SC5 mouse Sertoli cells) and 2.21±0.01 (B. glabrata hemocytes on Poly-L-Lysine coated plates), were measured and are consistent with previous reports. We believe that this system, coupled with open-source analysis software, demonstrates that higher throughput time-lapse imaging of cells for the purpose of studying motility can be an affordable option for all researchers. © 2014 Lynch et al
- …