Publications (14)
Positronium laser cooling via the - transition with a broadband laser pulse
L. T. Glöggler, N. Gusakova, B. Rienäcker +49
We report on laser cooling of a large fraction of positronium (Ps) in free-flight by strongly saturating the - transition with a broadband, long-pulsed 243 nm alexandri…
First experimental search for production of magnetic monopoles via the Schwinger mechanism
B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, P. Benes +64
Schwinger showed that electrically-charged particles can be produced in a strong electric field by quantum tunnelling through the Coulomb barrier. By electromagnetic duality, if ma…
Introducing Timepix2-Lite: A Miniaturized Readout Interface Enabling Nanosecond-Scale Half-Life Measurement
O. Pavlas, B. Bergmann, M. Holik +5
This paper presents Timepix2 Lite, a compact readout interface for the Timepix2 hybrid pixel detector, designed to provide high spatial and temporal resolution in a wide range of r…
The Design and Construction of the Chips Water Cherenkov Neutrino Detector
B. Alonso Rancurel, N. Angelides, G. Augustoni +64
CHIPS (CHerenkov detectors In mine PitS) was a prototype large-scale water Cherenkov detector located in northern Minnesota. The main aim of the R&D project was to demonstrate that…
Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC
MoEDAL Collaboration, B. Acharya, J. Alexandre +68
MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of long-lived highly-ionising particles produced in high-energy LHC collisions. Its arrays of plastic nuclear-track detectors…
MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect
B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, S. C. Behera +64
We report on a search for magnetic monopoles (MMs) produced in ultraperipheral Pb--Pb collisions during Run-1 of the LHC. The beam pipe surrounding the interaction region of the CM…
Search for Highly-Ionizing Particles in pp Collisions at the LHC's Run-1 Using the Prototype MoEDAL Detector
B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, P. Benes +68
A search for highly electrically charged objects (HECOs) and magnetic monopoles is presented using 2.2 fb-1 of p - p collision data taken at a centre of mass energy (ECM) of 8 TeV…
Experimental evidence of production of directional muons from a laser-wakefield accelerator
L. Calvin, E. Gerstmayr, C. Arran +19
We report on experimental evidence of the generation of directional muons from a laser-wakefield accelerator driven by a PW-class laser. The muons were generated following the inte…
Magnetic monopole search with the full MoEDAL trapping detector in 13 TeV collisions interpreted in photon-fusion and Drell-Yan production
MoEDAL Collaboration, B. Acharya, J. Alexandre +66
MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of stable or pseudostable highly ionizing particles produced in high-energy Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collisions. Here we u…
Penetrating particle ANalyzer (PAN)
X. Wu, G. Ambrosi, P. Azzarello +18
PAN is a scientific instrument suitable for deep space and interplanetary missions. It can precisely measure and monitor the flux, composition, and direction of highly penetrating…
Real-time antiproton annihilation vertexing with sub-micron resolution
M. Berghold, D. Orsucci, F. Guatieri +63
The primary goal of the AEgIS experiment is to precisely measure the free fall of antihydrogen within Earth's gravitational field. To this end, a cold ~50K antihydrogen beam has to…
Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 2.11 fb of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC
MoEDAL Collaboration, B. Acharya, J. Alexandre +68
We update our previous search for trapped magnetic monopoles in LHC Run 2 using nearly six times more integrated luminosity and including additional models for the interpretation o…
TALOS (Total Automation of LabVIEW Operations for Science): A framework for autonomous control systems for complex experiments
M. Volponi, J. ZieliÅski, T. Rauschendorfer +52
Modern physics experiments are frequently very complex, relying on multiple simultaneous events to happen in order to obtain the desired result. The experiment control system plays…
First search for dyons with the full MoEDAL trapping detector in 13 TeV pp collisions
B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, P. Benes +66
The MoEDAL trapping detector, consists of approximately 800 kg of aluminium volumes. It was exposed during Run-2 of the LHC program to 6.46 fb^-1 of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions…