Publications (64)
Dependence of the energy resolution of a scintillating crystal on the readout integration time
V. Bocci, D. Chao, G. Chiodi +7
The possibilty of performing high-rate calorimetry with a slow scintillator crystal is studied. In this experimental situation, to avoid pulse pile-up, it can be necessary to base…
Model-independent extraction of form factors and in with hadronic tagging at BaBar
BaBar Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +208
Using the entire BaBar data set, the first two-dimensional unbinned angular analysis of the semileptonic decay is perf…
Evidence for the decay B0 --> omega omega and search for B0 --> omega phi
The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +333
We describe searches for B meson decays to the charmless vector-vector final states omega omega and omega phi with 471 x 10^6 B Bbar pairs produced in e+ e- annihilation at sqrt(s)…
Precision measurement of the ratio
J. P. Lees, V. Poireau, V. Tisserand +238
We report on a precision measurement of the ratio using data collected with the BaBar detector…
New Hadronic Spectroscopy
N. Drenska, R. Faccini, F. Piccinini +3
In the past few years the field of hadron spectroscopy has seen renewed interest due to the pubblication, initially mostly from B-Factories, of evidences of states that do not matc…
The Physics of the B Factories
A. J. Bevan, B. Golob, Th. Mannel +2003
This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors, BaBar and Belle, and da…
Observation of Time Reversal Violation in the B0 Meson System
The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +364
Although CP violation in the B meson system has been well established by the B factories, there has been no direct observation of time reversal violation. The decays of entangled n…
First Observation of CP Violation in B0->D(*)CP h0 Decays by a Combined Time-Dependent Analysis of BaBar and Belle Data
The BaBar, Belle Collaborations, : +471
We report a measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry of B0->D(*)CP h0 decays, where the light neutral hadron h0 is a pi0, eta or omega meson, and the neutral D meson is recon…
Sensitivity and Discovery Potential of CUORE to Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
F. Alessandria, R. Ardito, D. R. Artusa +118
We present a study of the sensitivity and discovery potential of CUORE, a bolometric double-beta decay experiment under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in I…
Measurement of the cosmic ray flux by an ArduSiPM-based muon telescope in the framework of the Lab2Go project
V. Agostini, B. Arcese, N. Ascani +26
Whitin Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) outreach activities, the Lab2Go project is of great significance. Its goal is involving high school teachers and students in sev…
Secondary radiation measurements for particle therapy applications: Charged secondaries produced by 4He and 12C ion beams in a PMMA target at large angle
A. Rucinski, E. De Lucia, G. Battistoni +18
Measurements performed with the purpose of characterizing the charged secondary radiation for dose release monitoring in particle therapy are reported. Charged secondary yields, en…
Extended calibration range for prompt photon emission in ion beam irradiation
F. Bellini, T. T. Boehlen, M. P. W. Chin +18
Monitoring the dose delivered during proton and carbon ion therapy is still a matter of research. Among the possible solutions, several exploit the measurement of the single photon…
Higgs Physics at LEP2
M. Carena, P. Zerwas, E. Accomando +90
In this report we review the prospects for Higgs physics at LEP2. The theoretical aspects and the phenomenology of Higgs particles are discussed within the Standard Model (SM) and…
Cross Section Measurements of Large Angle Fragments Production in the Interaction of Carbon Ion Beams with Thin Targets
The FOOT Collaboration, Y. Dong, I. Mattei +87
The fragmentation cross sections of carbon ion beams with kinetic energies of impinging on thin targets of graphite (C), polyvinyl-toluene (CH)…
Observation of the baryonic B decay B0bar --> Lambda_c^+ anti-Lambda K-
The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +384
We report the observation of the baryonic B decay B0bar --> Lambda_c^+ anti-Lambda K- with a significance larger than 7 standard deviations based on 471x10^6$ BBbar pairs collected…
First evidence for and resolution of the CKM Unitarity Triangle ambiguity by a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of with decays
The BaBar, Belle Collaborations, : +422
We present first evidence that the cosine of the CP-violating weak phase is positive, and hence exclude trigonometric multifold solutions of the CKM Unitarity Triangle using…
Search for Neutron Flux Generation in a Plasma Discharge Electrolytic Cell
R. Faccini, A. Pilloni, A. D. Polosa +10
Following some recent unexpected hints of neutron production in setups like high-voltage atmospheric discharges and plasma discharges in electrolytic cells, we present a measuremen…
Search for with the BABAR experiment
The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +235
We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral current process using data from the BABAR experiment. A total of 424 fb of …
Search for rare or forbidden decays of the meson
J. P. Lees, V. Poireau, V. Tisserand +234
We present a search for nine lepton-number-violating and three lepton-flavor-violating neutral charm decays of the type …
Search for lepton-flavor violating decays
BaBar Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +238
We present a search for seven lepton-flavor-violating neutral charm decays of the type , where represents a , $K^{0}_{\rm S…
Search for direct CP-violation in singly-Cabibbo suppressed D+- --> K+ K- pi+- decays
BaBar Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +359
We report on a search for direct CP asymmetry in the singly Cabibbo-suppressed decay D+- --> K+ K- pi+- using a data sample of 476 fb-1 accumulated with the BaBar detector running…
Measurement of fundamental physical quantities in the framework of the Lab2Go project
F. Casaburo, N. Marcelli, M. Sorbara +23
To establish a closer contact between school and experimental sciences, Sapienza Università di Roma and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) launched the Lab2Go project…
Exotic Heavy Quarkonium Spectroscopy: A Mini-review
R. Faccini, A. Pilloni, A. D. Polosa
Since nine years experiments have been observing a host of exotic states decaying into heavy quarkonia. The interpretation of most of them still remains uncertain and, in some case…
Study of radiative bottomonium transitions using converted photons
The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +388
We use 111+/-1 million Upsilon(3S) and 89+/-1 million Upsilon(2S) events recorded by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II B-factory at SLAC to perform a study of radiative transitions…
First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via Decay of Te
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +162
The CUORE experiment, a ton-scale cryogenic bolometer array, recently began operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The array represents a significant advanc…
Study of the decay and its intermediate states
The Babar Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +351
We study the decay , reconstructing the Î_{c}^{+} baryon in the mode, using a data sample of $467\times 10^{6}…
Properties of para-terphenyl as detector for alpha, beta and gamma radiation
M. Angelone, G. Battistoni, F. Bellini +19
Organic scintillators are often chosen as radiation detectors for their fast decay time and their low Z, while inorganic ones are used when high light ields are required. In this p…
First Ex-Vivo Validation of a Radioguided Surgery Technique with beta- Radiation
E. Solfaroli Camillocci, M. Schiariti, V. Bocci +21
Purpose: A radio-guided surgery technique with beta- -emitting radio-tracers was suggested to overcome the effect of the large penetration of gamma radiation. The feasibility studi…
Double-beta decay of Te to the first 0 excited state of Xe with CUORICINO
E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone +63
The CUORICINO experiment was an array of 62 TeO single-crystal bolometers with a total Te mass of kg. The experiment finished in 2008 after more than 3 years…
IRIDE White Book, An Interdisciplinary Research Infrastructure based on Dual Electron linacs&lasers
D. Alesini, M. Alessandroni, M. P. Anania +211
This report describes the scientific aims and potentials as well as the preliminary technical design of IRIDE, an innovative tool for multi-disciplinary investigations in a wide fi…
Validation of techniques to mitigate copper surface contamination in CUORE
F. Alessandria, R. Ardito, D. R. Artusa +115
In this article we describe the background challenges for the CUORE experiment posed by surface contamination of inert detector materials such as copper, and present three techniqu…
CUORE crystal validation runs: results on radioactive contamination and extrapolation to CUORE background
F. Alessandria, E. Andreotti, R. Ardito +116
The CUORE Crystal Validation Runs (CCVRs) have been carried out since the end of 2008 at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories, in order to test the performances and the radiopurity…
Branching fraction and form-factor shape measurements of exclusive charmless semileptonic B decays, and determination of |V_{ub}|
BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +361
We report the results of a study of the exclusive charmless semileptonic decays, B^0 --> pi^- l^+ nu, B^+ --> pi^0 l^+ nu, B^+ --> omega l^+ nu, B^+ --> eta l^+ nu and B^+ --> eta^…
Initial-State Radiation Measurement of the e+e- -> pi+pi-pi+pi- Cross Section
J. P. Lees, V. Poireau, V. Tisserand +383
We study the process e+e- -> pi+pi-pi+pi-gamma, with a photon emitted from the initial-state electron or positron, using 454.3 fb^-1 of data collected with the BABAR detector at SL…
Measurement of in with decays by a combined time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of BaBar and Belle data
The BaBar, Belle Collaborations, : +407
We report measurements of and from a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of with decays, where the…
Search for hadronic decays of a light Higgs boson in the radiative decay Upsilon --> gamma A0
The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +385
We search for hadronic decays of a light Higgs boson (A0) produced in radiative decays of an Upsilon(2S) or Upsilon(3S) meson, Upsilon --> gamma A0. The data have been recorded by…
Evidence for the h_b(1P) meson in the decay Upsilon(3S) --> pi0 h_b(1P)
The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +406
Using a sample of 122 million Upsilon(3S) events recorded with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at SLAC, we search for the spin-singlet pa…
A Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Fraction of the B_s Meson
The BaBar Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +383
We report a measurement of the inclusive semileptonic branching fraction of the B_s meson using data collected with the BaBar detector in the center-of-mass (CM) energy region abov…
Higher Tetraquark Particles
N. V. Drenska, R. Faccini, A. D. Polosa
There are strong arguments favoring a four-quark interpretation of sub-GeV light scalar mesons and the diquark-antidiquark body-plan of the tetraquark seems to provide the most con…
Precise measurement of prompt photon emission for carbon ion therapy
C. Agodi, F. Bellini, G. A. P. Cirrone +19
Proton and carbon ion therapy is an emerging technique used for the treatment of solid cancers. The monitoring of the dose delivered during such treatments is still a matter of res…
On the Spin of the X(3872)
R. Faccini, F. Piccinini, A. Pilloni +1
Whether the much studied X(3872) is an axial or tensor resonance makes an important difference to its interpretation. A recent paper by the BaBar collaboration raised the viable hy…
Search for 14.4 keV solar axions from M1 transition of Fe-57 with CUORE crystals
The Cuore Collaboration, F. Alessandria, R. Ardito +112
We report the results of a search for axions from the 14.4 keV M1 transition from Fe-57 in the core of the sun using the axio-electric effect in TeO2 bolometers. The detectors are…
Preliminary results in using Deep Learning to emulate BLOB, a nuclear interaction model
A. Ciardiello, M. Asai, B. Caccia +10
Purpose: A reliable model to simulate nuclear interactions is fundamental for Ion-therapy. We already showed how BLOB ("Boltzmann-Langevin One Body"), a model developed to simulate…
Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of
J. P. Lees, V. Poireau, V. Tisserand +232
A study of the two body decays , where X refers to one charmonium state, is reported by BaBar collaboration using a data sample of 42…
A novel radioguided surgery technique exploiting $β^{-}$ decays
E. Solfaroli Camillocci, G. Baroni, F. Bellini +20
The background induced by the high penetration power of the gamma radiation is the main limiting factor of the current Radio-guided surgery (RGS). To partially mitigate it, a RGS w…
SuperB Technical Design Report
SuperB Collaboration, M. Baszczyk, P. Dorosz +406
In this Technical Design Report (TDR) we describe the SuperB detector that was to be installed on the SuperB e+e- high luminosity collider. The SuperB asymmetric collider, which wa…
Secondary radiation measurements for particle therapy applications: nuclear fragmentation produced by He ion beams in a PMMA target
M. Marafini, R. Paramatti, D. Pinci +19
Nowadays there is a growing interest in Particle Therapy treatments exploiting light ion beams against tumors due to their enhanced Relative Biological Effectiveness and high space…
Muon-induced backgrounds in the CUORICINO experiment
E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone +68
To better understand the contribution of cosmic ray muons to the CUORICINO background, 10 plastic scintillator detectors were installed at the CUORICINO site and operated during th…
Silicon Photo-Multiplier radiation hardness tests with a beam controlled neutron source
M. Angelone, M. Pillon, R. Faccini +7
We report radiation hardness tests performed at the Frascati Neutron Generator on silicon Photo-Multipliers, semiconductor photon detectors built from a square matrix of avalanche…
Proceedings of SuperB Workshop VI: New Physics at the Super Flavor Factory
D. G. Hitlin, C. H. Cheng, D. M. Asner +46
The sixth SuperB Workshop was convened in response to questions posed by the INFN Review Committee, evaluating the SuperB project at the request of INFN. The working groups address…
Search for beta plus/EC double beta decay of 120Te
E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone +63
We present a search for beta plus/EC double beta decay of 120Te performed with the CUORICINO experiment, an array of TeO2 cryogenic bolometers. After collecting 0.0573 kg y of 120T…
CUORE Opens the Door to Tonne-scale Cryogenics Experiments
CUORE Collaboration, D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino +206
The past few decades have seen major developments in the design and operation of cryogenic particle detectors. This technology offers an extremely good energy resolution - comparab…
Higgs Searches with the L3 Experiment at LEP2
P. Bagnaia, F. DiLodovico, J. -P. Ernenwein +4
This paper has been withdrawn.
Further investigations on the Neutron Flux Generation in a Plasma Discharge Electrolytic Cell
R. Faccini, A. Pilloni, A. D. Polosa +11
Our recent paper on the "Search for Neutron Flux Generation in a Plasma Discharge Electrolytic Cell" [1] has as main goal the validation of the experiment in Ref.[2]. As a follow-u…
The low energy spectrum of TeO2 bolometers: results and dark matter perspectives for the CUORE-0 and CUORE experiments
F. Alessandria, R. Ardito, D. R. Artusa +113
We collected 19.4 days of data from four 750 g TeO2 bolometers, and in three of them we were able to set the energy threshold around 3 keV using a new analysis technique. We found…
Multi-GeV Electron Spectrometer
R. Faccini, F. Anelli, A. Bacci +34
The advance in laser plasma acceleration techniques pushes the regime of the resulting accelerated particles to higher energies and intensities. In particular the upcoming experime…
Charged particle's flux measurement from PMMA irradiated by 80 MeV/u carbon ion beam
C. Agodi, G. Battistoni, F. Bellini +22
Hadrontherapy is an emerging technique in cancer therapy that uses beams of charged particles. To meet the improved capability of hadrontherapy in matching the dose release with th…
Search for Mesogenesis at BABAR
BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +239
A new mechanism has been proposed to simultaneously explain the presence of dark matter and the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. This scenario predicts exotic meson…
Angular differential and elemental fragmentation cross sections of a beam on a graphite target with the FOOT experiment
FOOT Collaboration, R. Ridolfi, M. Toppi +88
This paper presents the measurements of the angular differential cross sections for the forward production of He, Li, Be, B, C and N nuclei in the fragmentation process of a 400$\t…
Study of the time and space distribution of beta+ emitters from 80 MeV/u carbon ion beam irradiation on PMMA
C. Agodi, F. Bellini, G. A. P. Cirrone +19
Proton and carbon ion therapy is an emerging technique used for the treatment of solid cancers. The monitoring of the dose delivered during such treatments and the on-line knowledg…
Flavor Physics in the Quark Sector
M. Antonelli, D. M. Asner, D. Bauer +137
One of the major challenges of particle physics has been to gain an in-depth understanding of the role of quark flavor and measurements and theoretical interpretations of their res…
A note on the newly observed Y(4220) resonance
R. Faccini, G. Filaci, A. L. Guerrieri +2
BES III Collaboration has recently observed a vector resonance in the chi_{c0} omega channel, at a mass of about 4220 MeV, named Y(4220). Hints of a similar structure appear in the…
130Te Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with CUORICINO
E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone +63
We report the final result of the CUORICINO experiment. Operated between 2003 and 2008, with a total exposure of 19.75 kg y of 130Te, CUORICINO was able to set a lower bound on the…
A J^PG=1++ Charged Resonance in the Y(4260) to pi+pi- J/psi Decay?
R. Faccini, L. Maiani, F. Piccinini +3
New BES and Belle data show a peak in the Y(4260) decay into J/psi plus one charged pion. We point out that the peak might correspond to a charged resonance at about 3880 MeV predi…