The MIGDAL experiment: Measuring a rare atomic process to aid the search for dark matter

HM Araújo, SN Balashov, JE Borg, FM Brunbauer… - Astroparticle …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract We present the Migdal In Galactic Dark mAtter expLoration (MIGDAL) experiment
aiming at the unambiguous observation and study of the so-called Migdal effect induced by …

High energy and thermal neutron sensitivity of google tensor processing units

RLR Junior, S Malde, C Cazzaniga… - … on Nuclear Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate the reliability of Google's coral tensor processing units (TPUs)
to both high-energy atmospheric neutrons (at ChipIR) and thermal neutrons from a pulsed …

[HTML][HTML] High-repetition-rate, multi-MeV deuteron acceleration from converging heavy water microjets at laser intensities of 1021 W/cm2

F Treffert, CB Curry, HGJ Chou, CJ Crissman… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate high repetition-rate deuteron acceleration by irradiating a continuously
flowing, ambient temperature liquid heavy water jet with the high-intensity ALEPH laser. The …

First tests of a new facility for device-level, board-level and system-level neutron irradiation of microelectronics

C Cazzaniga, M Bagatin, S Gerardin… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The very limited availability of fast neutron facilities, particularly in Europe, for testing of
microelectronics has motivated the construction of ChipIr, a new beamline at the ISIS …

Neutron radiation shielding with sintered lunar regolith

A Meurisse, C Cazzaniga, C Frost, A Barnes… - Radiation …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lunar regolith simulant is exposed to a fast neutron flux of a spallation source. The samples
consisted of a set of as-received, traditionally sintered, and solar sintered JSC-2A lunar …

SEU characterization of commercial and custom-designed SRAMs based on 90 nm technology and below

A Coronetti, M Cecchetto, J Wang, M Tali… - 2020 IEEE Radiation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The R2E project at CERN has tested a few commercial SRAMs and a custom-designed
SRAM, whose data are complementary to various scientific publications. The experimental …

Thermal neutron-induced SEUs in the LHC accelerator environment

M Cecchetto, RG Alía, F Wrobel, M Tali… - … on Nuclear Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In addition to high-energy hadrons, which include neutrons, protons, and pions above 20
MeV, thermal neutrons (ThNs) are a major concern in terms of soft error rate (SER) for …

Evaluating and mitigating neutrons effects on COTS EdgeAI accelerators

S Blower, P Rech, C Cazzaniga… - … on Nuclear Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
EdgeAI is an emerging artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator technology, which is capable of
delivering improved AI performance at both a lower cost and a lower power level. With the …

Investigating the impact of radiation-induced soft errors on the reliability of approximate computing systems

LM Luza, D Söderström, G Tsiligiannis… - … on Defect and Fault …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate Computing (AxC) is a well-known paradigm able to reduce the computational
and power overheads of a multitude of applications, at the cost of a decreased accuracy …

Study of the deposited energy spectra in silicon by high-energy neutron and mixed fields

C Cazzaniga, RG Alía, M Kastriotou… - … on Nuclear Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The energy deposition spectra in a silicon detector have been measured at chip irradiation
(ChipIr) and Cern High energy AcceleRator Mixed field (CHARM) facilities. The …