Publications (113)
The ANTARES detector: two decades of neutrino searches in the Mediterranean Sea
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +138
Interest for studying cosmic neutrinos using deep-sea detectors has increase after the discovery of a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos by the IceCube collaboration and the possibil…
Proton spectra from Non-Mesonic Weak Decay of p-shell Lambda-Hypernuclei and evidence for the two-nucleon induced process
M. Agnello, A. Andronenkov, G. Beer +48
New spectra from the FINUDA experiment of the Non Mesonic Weak Decay (NMWD) proton kinetic energy for 9(Lambda)Be, 11(Lambda)B, 12(Lambda)C, 13(Lambda)C, 15 (Lambda)N and 16(Lambda…
Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +143
In this work, a search for nuclearites of strange quark matter by using nine years of ANTARES data taken in the period 2009-2017 is presented. The passage through matter of these p…
Study of tau neutrinos and non-unitary neutrino mixing with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +274
Oscillations of atmospheric muon and electron neutrinos produce tau neutrinos with energies in the GeV range, which can be observed by the ORCA detector of the KM3NeT neutrino tele…
Imaging neutron capture cross sections: i-TED proof-of-concept and future prospects based on Machine-Learning techniques
V. Babiano-Suárez, J. Lerendegui-Marco, J. Balibrea-Correa +132
i-TED is an innovative detection system which exploits Compton imaging techniques to achieve a superior signal-to-background ratio in () cross-section measurements using time…
Atmospheric neutrino constraints on Lorentz invariance violation with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +294
Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry underlying both the Standard Model of particle physics and General Relativity. Testing its validity provides a direct means of searchin…
Search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +285
The existence of an eV-scale sterile neutrino has been proposed to explain several anomalous experimental results obtained over the course of the past 25 years. The first search fo…
Discovery of lambda Boo stars in open clusters
C. Saffe, J. Alacoria, A. Alejo +7
The origin of lambda Boo stars is currently unknown. After several efforts by many authors, no bona fide lambda Boo stars have been confirmed as members of open clusters. Their det…
The Online Data Filter for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescopes
O. Adriani, S. Aiello, A. Albert +279
The KM3NeT research infrastructure comprises two neutrino telescopes located in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea, namely ORCA and ARCA. KM3NeT/ORCA is designed for the meas…
Search for solar atmospheric neutrinos with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +145
Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos (SAs) are produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the solar medium. The detection of SAs would provide useful information on the composi…
First determination of the one-proton induced Non-Mesonic Weak Decay width of p-shell Î-Hypernuclei
M. Agnello, L. Benussi, M. Bertani +24
Previous studies of proton and neutron spectra from Non-Mesonic Weak Decay of eight Lambda-Hypernuclei (A = 5-16) have been revisited. New values of the ratio of the two-nucleon an…
gSeaGen code by KM3NeT: an efficient tool to propagate muons simulated with CORSIKA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +260
The KM3NeT Collaboration has tackled a common challenge faced by the astroparticle physics community, namely adapting the experiment-specific simulation software to work with the C…
Searching for lambda Boo stars in binary systems
J. Alacoria, C. Saffe, A. Collado +7
Our goal is to find new candidate lambda Boo stars that belong to binary systems. A detailed abundance determination of some candidates could confirm their true lambda Boo nature,…
Letter of Intent for KM3NeT 2.0
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron, F. Aharonian +244
The main objectives of the KM3NeT Collaboration are i) the discovery and subsequent observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe and ii) the determination of the mas…
Search for Spatial Correlations of Neutrinos with Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays
The ANTARES collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +1042
For several decades, the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) has been an unsolved question of high-energy astrophysics. One approach for solving this puzzle is to corr…
Acoustic Positioning for Deep Sea Neutrino Telescopes with a System of Piezo Sensors Integrated into Glass Spheres
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +137
Position calibration in the deep sea is typically done by means of acoustic multilateration using three or more acoustic emitters installed at known positions. Rather than using hy…
KM3NeT Constraint on Lorentz-Violating Superluminal Neutrino Velocity
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, S. Aiello +290
Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry of spacetime and foundational to modern physics. One of its most important consequences is the constancy of the speed of light. This in…
Analysis of two-nucleon transfer reactions in the 20Ne + 116Cd system at 306 MeV
D. Carbone, J. L. Ferreira, S. Calabrese +46
Background: Heavy-ion induced two-nucleon transfer reactions are powerful tools to reveal peculiar aspects of the atomic nucleus, such as pairing correlations, single-particle and…
20Ne + 76Ge elastic and inelastic scattering at 306 MeV
A. Spatafora, F. Cappuzzello, D. Carbone +46
Background: Double charge exchange (DCE) nuclear reactions have recently attracted much interest as tools to provide experimentally driven information about nuclear matrix elements…
Results of the follow-up of ANTARES neutrino alerts
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +188
High-energy neutrinos could be produced in the interaction of charged cosmic rays with matter or radiation surrounding astrophysical sources. To look for transient sources associat…
Study of some two-body non-mesonic decays of He and He
FINUDA Collaboration, M. Agnello, L. Benussi +36
The Non-Mesonic (NM) decay of and in two-body channels has been studied by the FINUDA Collaboration. Two-body NM decays of hypernuclei are…
Machine Learning aided 3D-position reconstruction in large LaCl crystals
J. Balibrea-Correa, J. Lerendegui-Marco, V. Babiano +5
We investigate five different models to reconstruct the 3D -ray hit coordinates in five large \lacls monolithic crystals optically coupled to pixelated silicon photomultipliers…
An improved determination of the two--nucleon induced non mesonic weak decay of -hypernuclei
M. Agnello, L. Benussi, M. Bertani +36
The decay of -hypernuclei without pion emission, known as Non Mesonic Weak Decay (NMWD), gives an effective tool to investigate S=1 four-baryon interactions. It was theoret…
Multi-channel experimental and theoretical constraints for the Cd(Ne,F)In charge exchange reaction at 306 MeV
S. Burrello, S. Calabrese, F. Cappuzzello +43
Charge exchange (CE) reactions offer a major opportunity to excite nuclear isovector modes, providing clues about the nuclear interaction in the medium. Moreover, double charge exc…
The KM3NeT potential for the next core-collapse supernova observation with neutrinos
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +245
The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of two water Cherenkov neutrino detectors, ARCA and ORCA, aimed at neutrino astrophys…
Technical Design Report for PANDA Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC)
PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili +407
This document presents the technical layout and the envisaged performance of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC) for the PANDA target spectrometer. The EMC has been designed to m…
Design and performance of the prototype of the new Particle Identification system for the MAGNEX spectrometer within the NUMEN project
C. Lombardo, D. Carbone, A. Spatafora +12
The MAGNEX large acceptance magnetic spectrometer is installed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN-LNS) in Catania. In the past,…
Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +260
KM3NeT/ORCA is a water Cherenkov neutrino detector under construction and anchored at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The detector is designed to study oscillations of atmosph…
Searches for neutrinos in the direction of radio-bright blazars with the ANTARES telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +162
Active galaxies, especially blazars, are among the most promising neutrino source candidates. To date, ANTARES searches for these objects considered GeV-TeV -ray bright blazars…
KELT-17: a chemically peculiar Am star and a hot-Jupiter planet
C. Saffe, P. Miquelarena, J. Alacoria +6
Context. The detection of planets orbiting chemically peculiar stars is very scarcely known in the literature. Aims. To determine the detailed chemical composition of the remarkabl…
Experimental access to Transition Distribution Amplitudes with the PANDA experiment at FAIR
PANDA Collaboration, B. P. Singh, W. Erni +532
Baryon-to-meson Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDAs) encoding valuable new information on hadron structure appear as building blocks in the collinear factorized description fo…
emission rates in absorptions at rest on Li, Li, Be, C and O
FINUDA Collaboration, M. Agnello, L. Benussi +32
An experimental study of the reaction on Li, Li, Be, C and O -shell nuclei is presented. The data were collected b…
Search for Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidences Using HAWC and ANTARES Data
H. A. Ayala Solares, S. Coutu, D. Cowen +228
In the quest for high-energy neutrino sources, the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) has implemented a new search by combining data from the High Altitude Wat…
Direct experimental evidence of the weak hypernucleus decay
M. Agnello, L. Benussi, M. Bertani +35
A direct experimental evidence of the occurrence of the weak reaction in nuclei has been obtained by the FINUDA experiment. Three events have been found that…
Constraining gamma-ray burst parameters with the first ultra-high energy neutrino event KM3-230213A
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +278
Context: The detection of the highest energy neutrino observed to date by KM3NeT, with an estimated energy of 220 PeV, opens up new possibilities for the study and identification o…
Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the Complete ANTARES Dataset
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +137
This study presents a novel search for magnetic monopoles using data collected over a 14 year period (2008-2022) by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The interaction of magnetic mono…
Review of the online analyses of multi-messenger alerts and electromagnetic transient events with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +146
By constantly monitoring at least one complete hemisphere of the sky, neutrino telescopes are well designed to detect neutrinos emitted by transient astrophysical events. Real-time…
Embedded Software of the KM3NeT Central Logic Board
S. Aiello, A. Albert, S. Alves Garre +271
The KM3NeT Collaboration is building and operating two deep sea neutrino telescopes at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The telescopes consist of latices of photomultiplier tub…
Determining the Neutrino Mass Ordering and Oscillation Parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, S. Alves Garre +239
The next generation of water Cherenkov neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea are under construction offshore France (KM3NeT/ORCA) and Sicily (KM3NeT/ARCA). The KM3NeT/ORCA d…
The NUMEN project: NUclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless double beta decay
F. Cappuzzello, C. Agodi, M. Cavallaro +68
The article describes the main achievements of the NUMEN project together with an updated and detailed overview of the related R&D activities and theoretical developments. NUMEN pr…
A study of the proton spectra following the capture of in Li and C with FINUDA
M. Agnello, G. Beer, L. Benussi +55
Momenta spectra of protons emitted following the capture of in Li and C have been measured with 1% resolution. The C spectrum is smooth whereas for Li a…
PANDA Phase One
G. Barucca, F. Davì, G. Lancioni +421
The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany, provides unique possibilities for a new generation of hadron-, nuclear- and atomic physics experiments. T…
Feasibility studies of time-like proton electromagnetic form factors at PANDA at FAIR
PANDA Collaboration, B. Singh, W. Erni +502
Simulation results for future measurements of electromagnetic proton form factors at \PANDA (FAIR) within the PandaRoot software framework are reported. The statistical precision w…
Embedded software developments in KM3NeT phase I
V. van Beveren, D. Real, T. Chiarusi +10
The KM3NeT Collaboration has already produced more than one thousand acquisition boards, used for building two deep-sea neutrino detectors at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, w…
The prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron +246
A prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT deep-sea neutrino telescope has been installed at 3500m depth 80km offshore the Italian coast. KM3NeT in its final configuration will conta…
Analysis of one-neutron transfer reaction in O + Se collision at 275 MeV
I. Ciraldo, F. Cappuzzello, M. Cavallaro +45
Purpose: We want to analyze transitions to low-lying excited states of the residual and ejectile nuclei in the 76Se(18O, 17O) 77Se one-neutron stripping reaction at 275-MeV inciden…
Search for steady and flaring neutrino emission from cosmic sources using the complete ANTARES dataset
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +139
ANTARES, a neutrino detector located in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea, operated successfully for over 15 years before being decommissioned in 2022. The telescope offered an i…
Search for Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A using the KM3NeT ARCA and ORCA detectors
S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +273
Gamma-ray bursts are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The recent GRB 221009A event, identified as the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected, pr…
Measuring nuclear reaction cross sections to extract information on neutrinoless double beta decay
M. Cavallaro, F. Cappuzzello, C. Agodi +72
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0v\b{eta}\b{eta}) is considered the best potential resource to access the absolute neutrino mass scale. Moreover, if observed, it will signal that n…
Feasibility study for the measurement of TDAs at PANDA in
PANDA Collaboration, B. Singh, W. Erni +508
The exclusive charmonium production process in annihilation with an associated meson is studied in the framework of QCD collinear factoriza…
New results on Mesonic Weak Decay of -shell -Hypernuclei
The FINUDA Collaboration, M. Agnello, A. Andronenkov +51
The FINUDA experiment performed a systematic study of the charged mesonic weak decay channel of -shell -hypernuclei. Negatively charged pion spectra from mesonic decay were…
Technical Design Report for the: PANDA Micro Vertex Detector
PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili +454
This document illustrates the technical layout and the expected performance of the Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) of the PANDA experiment. The MVD will detect charged particles as clo…
Depletion depth measurements of new large area silicon carbide detectors
A. Spatafora, D. Carbone, L. La Fauci +9
The ion beam induced charge technique with proton microprobe is used to characterise newly developed p-n junction large area silicon carbide detectors. They were recently produced…
Combined sensitivity of JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA to the neutrino mass ordering
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +275
This article presents the potential of a combined analysis of the JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA experiments to determine the neutrino mass ordering. This combination is particularly interes…
Probing invisible neutrino decay with KM3NeT-ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +252
In the era of precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters, upcoming neutrino experiments will also be sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. KM3NeT/ORCA…
Implementation and first results of the KM3NeT real-time core-collapse supernova neutrino search
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +242
The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. KM3NeT will study atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos with two multi-purpose neutrino detecto…
Hypernuclear spectroscopy with K at rest on Li, Be, C and O
FINUDA Collaboration, M. Agnello, L. Benussi +37
The FINUDA experiment collected data to study the production of hypernuclei on different nuclear targets. The hypernucleus formation occurred through the strangeness-exchange react…
Testing Heavy Dark Matter Decay as the Origin of KM3-230213A
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, J. A. Aguilar +287
This work explores the hypothesis that the ultra-high-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A originates from the decay of a heavy dark matter particle with a mass above PeV scale. The a…
Technical Design Report for the: PANDA Straw Tube Tracker
PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili +470
This document describes the technical layout and the expected performance of the Straw Tube Tracker (STT), the main tracking detector of the PANDA target spectrometer. The STT encl…
Chemical analysis of early-type stars with planets
C. Saffe, P. Miquelarena, J. Alacoria +6
Aims. To explore the chemical pattern of early-type stars with planets, searching for a possible signature of planet formation. In particular, we study a likely relation between th…
Nanobeacon: A time calibration device for the KM3NeT neutrino telescope
S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +238
The KM3NeT Collaboration is currently constructing a multi-site high-energy neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea consisting of matrices of pressure-resistant glass spheres,…
Long term monitoring of the optical background in the Capo Passero deep-sea site with the NEMO tower prototype
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, S. Aiello, F. Ameli +101
The NEMO Phase-2 tower is the first detector which was operated underwater for more than one year at the "record" depth of 3500 m. It was designed and built within the framework of…
Search for non-standard neutrino interactions with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +261
KM3NeT/ORCA is an underwater neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. Its primary scientific goal is to measure the atmospheric neutrino oscillation paramete…
Physics Performance Report for PANDA: Strong Interaction Studies with Antiprotons
PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili +411
To study fundamental questions of hadron and nuclear physics in interactions of antiprotons with nucleons and nuclei, the universal PANDA detector will be built. Gluonic excitation…
Search for secluded dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. Andre +146
Searches for dark matter (DM) have not provided any solid evidence for the existence of weakly interacting massive particles in the GeV-TeV mass range. Coincidentally, the scale of…
The Power Board of the KM3NeT Digital Optical Module: design, upgrade, and production
S. Aiello, A. Albert, S. Alves Garre +281
The KM3NeT Collaboration is building an underwater neutrino observatory at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea consisting of two neutrino telescopes, both composed of a three-dimen…
Optimizing the potential of KM3NeT in detecting core-collapse supernovae
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +285
Core-collapse supernovae mark the end of life of massive stars. However, despite their importance in astrophysics, their underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Neutrinos that emerge…
KM3NeT front-end and readout electronics system: hardware, firmware and software
The KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, F. Ameli +237
The KM3NeT research infrastructure being built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea will host water-Cherenkov telescopes for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The neutrino teles…
Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +245
KM3NeT/ORCA is a next-generation neutrino telescope optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillations studies. In this paper, the sensitivity of ORCA to the presence of a light steri…
Hint for a TeV neutrino emission from the Galactic Ridge with ANTARES
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +151
Interactions of cosmic ray protons, atomic nuclei, and electrons in the interstellar medium in the inner part of the Milky Way produce a -ray flux from the Galactic Ridge. If t…
First observation of the hyper superheavy hydrogen 6ÎH
M. Agnello, L. Benussi, M. Bertani +36
Three candidate events of the neutron-rich hypernucleus 6ÎH were uniquely identified in the FINUDA experiment at DAΦNE, Frascati, by observing Ï+ mesons from the (K-stop,Ï+) pr…
Searches for neutrino counterparts of gravitational waves from the LIGO/Virgo third observing run with KM3NeT
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +273
The KM3NeT neutrino telescope is currently being deployed at two different sites in the Mediterranean Sea. First searches for astrophysical neutrinos have been performed using data…
Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units
KM3NeT Collaboration, M. Ageron, S. Aiello +262
KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collabora…
First i-TED demonstrator: a Compton imager with Dynamic Electronic Collimation
V. Babiano, J. Balibrea, L. Caballero +5
i-TED consists of both a total energy detector and a Compton camera primarily intended for the measurement of neutron capture cross sections by means of the simultaneous combinatio…
Search for the neutron-rich hypernucleus 9ÎHe
M. Agnello, L. Benussi, M. Bertani +35
Search for the neutron-rich hypernucleus 9LHe is reported by the FINUDA experiment at DAFNE, INFN-LNF, studying (pi+, pi-) pairs in coincidence from the K-stop + 9Be --> 9LHe + pi+…
Imaging neutrons with a position-sensitive monolithic CLYC detector
J. Lerendegui-Marco, G. Cisterna, J. Hallam +9
In this work, we have developed and characterized a position-sensitive CLYC detector that acts as the neutron imaging layer and -ray Compton scatterer of the novel dual \g-ray…
Analysis of the background on cross section measurements with the MAGNEX spectrometer: the (20Ne,20O) Double Charge Exchange case
S. Calabrese, F. Cappuzzello, D. Carbone +40
The MAGNEX magnetic spectrometer is used in the experimental measurements of Double Charge Exchange and Multi-Nucleon Transfer reactions induced by heavy ions within the NUMEN proj…
The reaction on p-shell nuclei
FINUDA Collaboration, M. Agnello, L. Benussi +37
This letter is concerned with the study of the reaction in p-shell nuclei, i.e., , , and . The $Ï^\pmΣ^\…
On the Potential Galactic Origin of the Ultra-High-Energy Event KM3-230213A
O. Adriani, S. Aiello, A. Albert +286
The KM3NeT observatory detected the most energetic neutrino candidate ever observed, with an energy between 72 PeV and 2.6 EeV at the 90% confidence level. The observed neutrino is…
Prospects for combined analyses of hadronic emission from -ray sources in the Milky Way with CTA and KM3NeT
T. Unbehaun, L. Mohrmann, S. Funk +271
The Cherenkov Telescope Array and the KM3NeT neutrino telescopes are major upcoming facilities in the fields of -ray and neutrino astronomy, respectively. Possible simultaneous…
Simultaneous Gamma-Neutron Vision device: a portable and versatile tool for nuclear inspections
J. Lerendegui Marco, V. Babiano-Suárez, J. Balibrea-Correa +4
GN-Vision is a novel dual -ray and neutron imaging system, which aims at simultaneously obtaining information about the spatial origin of -ray and neutron sources. The prop…
Deep sea tests of a prototype of the KM3NeT digital optical module
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron, F. Aharonian +247
The first prototype of a photo-detection unit of the future KM3NeT neutrino telescope has been deployed in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This digital optical module has…
The ultra-high-energy event KM3-230213A within the global neutrino landscape
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, S. Aiello +290
On February 13th, 2023, the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope detected a neutrino candidate with an estimated energy in the hundreds of PeVs. In this article, the observation of this ultra-hig…
Search for a Dark Photon in Electro-Produced Pairs with the Heavy Photon Search Experiment at JLab
P. H. Adrian, N. A. Baltzell, M. Battaglieri +74
The Heavy Photon Search experiment took its first data in a 2015 engineering run using a 1.056 GeV, 50 nA electron beam provided by CEBAF at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerat…
The OctoPAES board for the validation of KM3NeT data acquisition system
F. Filippini, T. Chiarusi, G. Balbi +6
A test-bench has been set up at the INFN Sezione di Bologna to optimise key elements of the KM3NeT data acquisition system. A complete framework has been built to simulate a full d…
Probing invisible neutrino decay with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +273
In the era of precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters, it is necessary for experiments to disentangle discrepancies that may indicate physics beyond the Standard…
First Searches for Dark Matter with the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescopes
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +262
Indirect dark matter detection methods are used to observe the products of dark matter annihilations or decays originating from astrophysical objects where large amounts of dark ma…
One-neutron transfer reaction in the O + Ti collision at 275 MeV
O. Sgouros, M. Cutuli, F. Cappuzzello +29
The present article reports new data on the Ti(O,O)Ti reaction at 275 MeV incident energy as part of the systematic research pursued within the NUMEN pr…
Technical Design Report for the PANDA Solenoid and Dipole Spectrometer Magnets
The PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili +407
This document is the Technical Design Report covering the two large spectrometer magnets of the PANDA detector set-up. It shows the conceptual design of the magnets and their antic…
Search for quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations with six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +259
Neutrinos described as an open quantum system may interact with the environment which introduces stochastic perturbations to their quantum phase. This mechanism leads to a loss of…
Charge-state distributions of 20Ne ions emerging from thin foils
M. Cavallaro, G. Santagati, F. Cappuzzello +42
New experimental measurements of charge state distributions produced by a 20Ne10+ beam at 15 MeV/u colliding on various thin solid targets are presented. The use of the MAGNEX magn…
Search for a Dark Photon in Electro-Produced Pairs with the Heavy Photon Search Experiment at JLab
P. H. Adrian, N. A. Baltzell, M. Battaglieri +74
The Heavy Photon Search experiment took its first data in a 2015 engineering run at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, searching for a prompt, electro-produced dar…
Proton irradiation on Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon flexible devices
M. Menichelli, S. Aziz, A. Bashiri +58
Radiation damage tests in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) flexible flux and dose-measuring devices have been performed with a 3 MeV proton beam, to evaluate combined displa…
On the performance of large monolithic LaCl3(Ce) crystals coupled to pixelated silicon photosensors
P. Olleros, L. Caballero, C. Domingo-Pardo +7
We investigate the performance of large area radiation detectors, with high energy- and spatial-resolution, intended for the development of a Total Energy Detector with gamma-ray i…
HASPIDE-SPACE: a new concept of a radiation-resistant instrument for solar energetic particles
C. Grimani, M. Fabi, M. Menichelli +55
Galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles (SEPs) affect the performance of instruments carried on board space missions and are the source of the absorbed dose to astronaut…
Constraints on the energy spectrum of the diffuse cosmic neutrino flux from the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +139
High-significance evidences of the existence of a high-energy diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos have emerged in the last decade from several observations by the IceCube Collaboratio…
Production of H and H with the (K,) reaction
M. Agnello, G. Beer, L. Benussi +53
The production of neutron rich -hypernuclei via the (,) reaction has been studied using data collected with the FINUDA spectrometer at the DANE -factory…
Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron, S. Aiello +250
Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multimegaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursue…
Deep Learning Framework for Enhanced Neutrino Reconstruction of Single-line Events in the ANTARES Telescope
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +137
We present the -fit algorithm designed to improve the reconstruction of neutrino events detected by a single line of the ANTARES underwater telescope, usually associated with lo…
Search for Magnetic Monopoles with ten years of the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +145
This work presents a new search for magnetic monopoles using data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope over a period of 10 years (January 2008 to December 2017). Compared to p…