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arXiv:1502.04763 (physics)
[Submitted on 17 Feb 2015 (v1), last revised 24 May 2015 (this version, v2)]

Title:A New Technique for Large-Area Detection of High Energy Particles using Ultra-Fast Magnetic Sensing

Authors:David Saltzberg, Peihao Sun
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Abstract:Cascades from high-energy particles produce a brief current and associated magnetic fields. Even sub-nanosecond duration magnetic fields can be detected with a relatively low bandwidth system by latching image currents on a capacitor. At accelerators, this technique is employed routinely by beam-current monitors, which work for pulses even as fast as femtoseconds. We discuss scaling up these instruments in size, to 100 meters and beyond, to serve as a new kind of ground- and space-based high-energy particle detector which can instrument large areas relatively inexpensively. This new technique may be used to detect and/or veto ultra-high energy cosmic-ray showers above 100 PeV. It may also be applied to searches for hypothetical highly charged particles. In addition, these detectors may serve to search for extremely short magnetic field pulses of any origin, faster than other detectors by orders of magnitude.
Comments: 17 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Version 2: fixed typo TeV->PeV in section 5
Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
Cite as: arXiv:1502.04763 [physics.ins-det]
  (or arXiv:1502.04763v2 [physics.ins-det] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1502.04763

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From: David Saltzberg [view email]
[v1] Tue, 17 Feb 2015 01:08:53 UTC (434 KB)
[v2] Sun, 24 May 2015 21:32:13 UTC (434 KB)
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