Publications (15)
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop "Radiopure Scintillators for EURECA" (RPScint'2008)
E. Armengau, M. Bauer, I. Bavykina +56
Workshop RPSCINT'2008 was organized in Kyiv (Ukraine) on 9th and 10th September 2008. The idea was to bring together physicists, chemists, crystal scintillator experts and manufact…
Measurements of Production Properties of K0S mesons and Lambda hyperons in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c
N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali +141
Spectra of K0S mesons and Lambda hyperons were measured in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c with the large acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The data were collected w…
A new high-background-rejection dark matter Ge cryogenic detector
A. Broniatowski, X. Defay, E. Armengaud +40
A new design of a cryogenic germanium detector for dark matter search is presented, taking advantage of the coplanar grid technique of event localisation for improved background di…
Multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations in inelastic proton-proton interactions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali +130
Measurements of multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations of charged particles were performed in inelastic p+p interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c beam momentum. R…
LUMINEU: a search for neutrinoless double beta decay based on ZnMoO scintillating bolometers
E. Armengaud, Q. Arnaud, C. Augier +90
The LUMINEU is designed to investigate the possibility to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in Mo by means of a large array of scintillating bolometers based on ZnM…
Measurements of Cross Sections and Charged Pion Spectra in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c
N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, B. Andrieu +133
Interaction cross sections and charged pion spectra in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c were measured with the large acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. These data are…
Measurement of Production Properties of Positively Charged Kaons in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c
SHINE Collaboration, N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz +135
Spectra of positively charged kaons in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c were measured with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The analysis is based on the full set of data co…
First results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using Ge cryogenic detectors with interleaved electrodes
E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. Benoit +41
The EDELWEISS-II collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400 g heat-and-ionization cryogenic detectors equipped with interleaved elect…
Final results of the EDELWEISS-I dark matter search with cryogenic heat-and-ionization Ge detectors
V. Sanglard, A. Benoit, L. Berge +40
The final results of the EDELWEISS-I dark matter search using cryogenic heat-and-ionization Ge detectors are presented. The final data sample corresponds to an increase by a factor…
Measurement of negatively charged pion spectra in inelastic p+p interactions at = 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c
SHINE Collaboration, N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz +136
We present experimental results on inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of negatively charged pions produced in inelastic p+p interactions at incident projectile momenta of 20…
Pion emission from the T2K replica target: method, results and application
N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, T. Anticic +150
The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan needs precise predictions of the initial neutrino flux. The highest precision can be reached based on detailed measur…
Identification of backgrounds in the EDELWEISS-I dark matter search experiment
S. Fiorucci, A. Benoit, L. Berge +36
This paper presents our interpretation and understanding of the different backgrounds in the EDELWEISS-I data sets. We analyze in detail the several populations observed, which inc…
NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: beams and detector system
N. Abgrall, O. Andreeva, A. Aduszkiewicz +145
NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a multi-purpose experimental facility to study hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisio…
A detection system to measure muon-induced neutrons for direct Dark Matter searches
V. Yu. Kozlov, E. Armengaud, C. Augier +41
Muon-induced neutrons constitute a prominent background component in a number of low count rate experiments, namely direct searches for Dark Matter. In this work we describe a neut…
Measurement of the response of heat-and-ionization germanium detectors to nuclear recoils
A. Benoit, L. Berge, J. Blumer +34
The heat quenching factor Q' (the ratio of the heat signals produced by nuclear and electron recoils of equal energy) of the heat-and-ionization germanium bolometers used by the ED…