Publications (39)
Calibration of the ICARUS cryogenic photo-detection system at FNAL
M. Bonesini, R. Benocci, R. Bertoni +7
The calibration of the ICARUS photo-detection system is based on a low power laser diode at 405 nm. Laser pulses arrive to one optical switch and then are sent to 36 UHV flanges, b…
Behaviour in Magnetic Fields of Fast Conventional and Fine-Mesh Photomultipliers
M. Bonesini, R. Bertoni, A. de Bari +1
The performance of both conventional and fine-mesh Hamamatsu photomultipliers has been measured inside moderate magnetic fields. This has allowed the test of effective shielding so…
Detection of low-energy X-rays with 1/2 and 1 inch LaBr3:Ce crystals read by SIPM arrays
M. Bonesini, R. Bertoni, R. Benocci +6
LaBr3:Ce crystals, with photomultiplier or single SiPM readout (up to 3x3 mm) have been introduced for radiation imaging in medical physics. An R&D was pursued with 1/2" and 1"…
Effective exploitation of a geyser bubble-chamber equipment as a background-free fast neutron detector
R. Bertoni, G. Bruno, N. Burgio +10
MOSCAB equipment, a geyser-concept bubble-chamber originally thought for the search of dark matter in the form of WIMPs, is employed for the detection of fast neutrons. Once the ba…
Design and expected performance of the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling
MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +129
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at a neutrino factory and to provide…
Online control of the gain drift with temperature of SiPM arrays used for the readout of LaB:Ce crystals
M. Bonesini, R. Bertoni, M. Prata +1
LaB:Ce crystals have been introduced for radiation imaging in medical physics, with photomultiplier or single SiPM readout. An R-D was pursued with 1/2" and 1" LaBr3:Ce crystal…
Performance of the MICE diagnostic system
The MICE collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +135
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of a neutrino factory and for multi-TeV lepton-antilepton collisions at a muon coll…
First measurement of the temperature dependence of muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen atoms to oxygen
FAMU Collaboration, E. Mocchiutti, A. Adamczak +39
We report the first measurement of the temperature dependence of muon transfer rate from p atoms to oxygen between 100 and 300 K. Data were obtained from the X-ray spectra of d…
Investigating the Proton Structure: The FAMU experiment
A. Vacchi, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +46
The article gives the motivations for the measurement of the hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the ground state of muonic hydrogen to explore the properties of the proton at low momentu…
Characterisation of the muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment
The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +141
A novel single-particle technique to measure emittance has been developed and used to characterise seventeen different muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE).…
The muon beam monitor for the FAMU experiment: design, simulation, test and operation
R. Rossini, G. Baldazzi, S. Banfi +35
FAMU is an INFN-led muonic atom physics experiment based at the RIKEN-RAL muon facility at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (United Kingdom). The aim of FAMU is to measure the hype…
Implication for the core collapse supernova rate from 21 years of data of the Large Volume Detector
N. Y. Agafonova, M. Aglietta, P. Antonioli +32
The Large Volume Detector (LVD) has been continuously taking data since 1992 at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory. LVD is sensitive to neutrino bursts from gravitational stel…
Large area LaBr3:Ce crystals read by SiPM arrays with improved timing and temperature gain drift control
M. Bonesini, R. Benocci, R. Bertoni +4
Compact X-rays detectors made of 1/2" or 1" :LaBr3:Ce crystals of cubic shape with SiPM array readout have been developed for the FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL. The aim is a precise…
Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam
D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +142
The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240\,MeV/c at…
A new technique for direct investigation of dark matter
R. Bertoni, F. Chignoli, D. Chiesa +8
The MOSCAB experiment (Materia OSCura A Bolle) uses a new technique for Dark Matter search. The Geyser technique is applied to the construction of a prototype detector with a mass…
The laser diode calibration system of the ICARUS T600 detector at FNAL
M. Bonesini, R. Benocci, R. Bertoni +6
The ICARUS T600 LAr TPC is the far detector of the Short Baseline Program at FNAL. As it will have to work at shallow depth in the Booster Neutrino Beam, a large cosmic rays backgr…
First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +133
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam…
Transverse Emittance Reduction in Muon Beams by Ionization Cooling
The MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +134
Accelerated muon beams have been considered for next-generation studies of high-energy lepton-antilepton collisions and neutrino oscillations. However, high-brightness muon beams h…
The construction of the Fiber-SiPM beam monitor system of the R484 and R582 experiments at the RIKEN-RAL muon facility
M. Bonesini, R. Bertoni, F. Chignoli +12
The scintillating fiber-SiPM beam monitor detectors, designed to deliver beam informations for the R484 and R582 experiments at the high intensity, low energy pulsed muon beam at t…
Measurement of the muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen to oxygen in the range 70-336 K
C. Pizzolotto, A. Sbrizzi, A. Adamczak +39
The first measurement of the temperature dependence of the muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen to oxygen was performed by the FAMU collaboration in 2016. The results provide ev…
First demonstration of ionization cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov, G. Vankova-Kirilova +132
High-brightness muon beams of energy comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators have yet to be realised. Such beams have the potential t…
Ce:LaBr crystals with SiPM array readout and temperature control for the FAMU experiment at RAL
M. Bonesini, R. Benocci, R. Bertoni +10
Compact X-rays detectors made of 1/2 inch Ce:LaBr3 crystals of cubic shape with SiPM array readout have been developed for the FAMUexperiment at RIKEN-RAL, to instrument regions of…
A laser diode based system for calibration of fast time-of-flight detectors
M. Bonesini, R. Bertoni, A. deBari +1
A system based on commercially available items, such as a laser diode, emitting in the visible range nm,and multimode fiber patches, fused fiber splitters and optical sw…
MOSCAB: A geyser-concept bubble chamber to be used in a dark matter search
The MOSCAB Collaboration, A. Antonicci, M. Ardid +26
The MOSCAB experiment (Materia OSCura A Bolle) uses the "geyser technique", a variant of the superheated liquid technique of extreme simplicity. Operating principles of the new dar…
Measurement of cosmic muon charge ratio with the Large Volume Detector
N. Yu. Agafonova, M. Aglietta, P. Antonioli +28
The charge ratio for atmospheric muons has been measured using Large Volume Detector (LVD) in the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy (minimal depth i…
MICE: the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. Step I: First Measurement of Emittance with Particle Physics Detectors
U. Bravar, M. Bogomilov, Y. Karadzhov +144
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a strategic R&D project intended to demonstrate the only practical solution to providing high brilliance beams necessary for a neut…
Electron-Muon Ranger: performance in the MICE Muon Beam
D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +151
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requ…
Optimization of LYSO crystals and SiPM parameters for the CMS MIP timing detector
F. Addesa, T. Anderson, P. Barria +68
For the High-Luminosity (HL-LHC) phase, the upgrade of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN will include a novel MIP Timing Detector (MTD). The central part of MTD, t…
FAMU: study of the energy dependent transfer rate
FAMU Collaboration, E. Mocchiutti, V. Bonvicini +53
The main goal of the FAMU experiment is the measurement of the hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the 1S state of muonic hydrogen . The physical process behind this e…
Status of the detector setup for the FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL for a precision measurement of the Zemach radius of the proton in muonic hydrogen
R. Rossini, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +46
The FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL is a muonic atom experiment with the aim to determine the Zemach radius of the proton by measuring the 1s hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen. T…
Multiple Coulomb Scattering of muons in Lithium Hydride
M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov, G. Vankova-Kirilova +134
Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) is a well known phenomenon occurring when charged particles traverse materials. Measurements of muons traversing low materials made in the MuS…
Strain Wave Pathway to Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition revealed by time resolved X-ray powder diffraction
C. Mariette, M. Lorenc, H. Cailleau +42
Thanks to the remarkable developments of ultrafast science, one of today's challenges is to modify material state by controlling with a light pulse the coherent motions that connec…
Measurement of the velocity of neutrinos from the CNGS beam with the Large Volume Detector
N. Yu. Agafonova, M. Aglietta, P. Antonioli +28
We report the measurement of the time-of-flight of ~17 GeV muon neutrinos on the CNGS baseline (732 km) with the Large Volume Detector (LVD) at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. The CERN-…
One inch LaBr3:Ce detectors, with temperature control and improved time resolution for low energy X-rays spectroscopy
M. Bonesini, R. Benocci, R. Bertoni +6
Large area LaBr3:Ce detectors with a SiPM array readout have been developed for the FAMU experiment at RAL. The aim was to have a good energy resolution for low energy X-rays detec…
Test beam characterization of sensor prototypes for the CMS Barrel MIP Timing Detector
R. Abbott, A. Abreu, F. Addesa +196
The MIP Timing Detector will provide additional timing capabilities for detection of minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) at CMS during the High Luminosity LHC era, improving event re…
Steps towards the hyperfine splitting measurement of the muonic hydrogen ground state: pulsed muon beam and detection system characterization
A. Adamczak, G. Baccolo, D. Bakalov +52
The high precision measurement of the hyperfine splitting of the muonic-hydrogen atom ground state with pulsed and intense muon beam requires careful technological choices both in…
First operation of the FAMU experiment at the RIKEN-RAL high intensity muon beam facility
FAMU Collaboration, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +40
The FAMU experiment, supported and funded by the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), aims to perform the first…
Improving the Time Resolution of Large-Area LaBr3:Ce Detectors with SiPM Array Readout
M. Bonesini, R. Bertoni, A. Abba +3
LaBr3:Ce crystals have good scintillation properties for X-ray spectroscopy. Initially, they were introduced for radiation imaging in medical physics with either a photomultiplier…
The design and commissioning of the MICE upstream time-of-flight system
R. Bertoni, A. Blondel, M. Bonesini +9
In the MICE experiment at RAL the upstream time-of-flight detectors are used for particle identification in the incoming muon beam, for the experiment trigger and for a precise tim…