Conveners
🔀 Hardware & Design
- Bjoern Malte Schaefer
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Luis Felipe Cattelan (University of Zurich)26/08/2026, 16:00Hardware & Design
The SHiP experiment is a proposed fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS designed to search for feebly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model. A critical challenge for SHiP is suppressing the massive flux of beam-dump muons entering the detector acceptance. The Active Muon Shield, a system of magnets designed for muon deflection, must therefore be optimized to minimize this...
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Sara Zoccheddu26/08/2026, 16:10Hardware & Design
Instrument design requires searching a large space of discrete and continuous choices under hard resource constraints, and the effort of setting up such optimizations increasingly limits how far they can scale. We investigate the use of large language models (LLMs) for physics instrument design and compare their performance with reinforcement learning (RL). Using only prompting, the models...
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Nathan Campioni (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN)26/08/2026, 16:20Hardware & Design
QSOpt (Quantum Sensing Optimization) is an end-to-end differentiable simulation and machine-learning optimization framework for open quantum networks composed of superconducting qubits, bosonic modes and input-output channels with user-defined interactions.
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The advancements in quantum technologies have sparked interest in employing quantum systems as sensors, with superconducting quantum... -
Elli Jobst (Technical University of Munich, Max Planck Institute for Physics)26/08/2026, 16:40Hardware & Design
The past decade has witnessed a rapid expansion of machine learning applications in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy. While many efforts have focused on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), these approaches remain constrained by existing camera geometries and by the limited ability of Monte Carlo simulations to fully capture real telescope performance. In this work, we employ a...
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Ms Aleksandra Stojanović (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade), Mr Dimitrije Pešić (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade), Mr Janko Vukobratović (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade)26/08/2026, 16:50Patterns & Anomalies
Macro-X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) scanners with two detectors are used, with their signals normally summed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio and the difference between them neglected. We show that this difference, plus one extra measurement, scanning the same painting again with the canvas tilted forward, is enough to characterise the instrument, with no dedicated calibration measurements...
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Jesus Pena-Rodriguez (JLU Giessen)26/08/2026, 17:00Hardware & Design
SiPMs (Silicon Photomultipliers) have recently been studied as candidates for building photon cameras in RICH (Ring Imaging Cherenkov) detectors. SiPM-based cameras improve detection efficiency (up to $60\%$), spatial resolution (mm), timing ($< 100$\, ps), scalability, and magnetic field immunity. Nevertheless, for single-photon detection, SiPM thermal noise ($\sim 10^2$\,kHz/mm$^2$) and...
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