Publications (25)
Development of a high-resolution and high efficiency Single Photon detector for studying cardiovascular diseases in mice
F. Garibaldi, E. Cisbani, F. Cusanno +10
SPECT systems using pinhole apertures permit radiolabeled molecular distributions to be imaged in vivo in small animals. Nevertheless studying cardiovascular diseases by means of s…
SIM PlanetQuest: The Most Promising Near-Term Technique to Detect, Find Masses, and Determine Three-Dimensional Orbits of Nearby Habitable Planets
M. Shao, G. Marcy, S. Unwin +21
The past two Decadal Surveys in Astronomy and Astrophysics recommended the completion of a space-based interferometry mission, known today as SIM PlanetQuest, for its unique abilit…
A novel TOF-PET MRI detector for diagnosis and follow up of the prostate cancer
F. Garibaldi, S. Beging, R. Canese +14
Prostate cancer is the most common disease in men and the second leading cause of death from cancer. Generic large imaging instruments used in cancer diagnosis have sensitivity, sp…
Red giants observed by CoRoT and APOGEE: The evolution of the Milky Way's radial metallicity gradient
F. Anders, C. Chiappini, I. Minchev +21
Using combined asteroseismic and spectroscopic observations of 418 red-giant stars close to the Galactic disc plane (6 kpc kpc, kpc), w…
How Many Components? Quantifying the Complexity of the Metallicity Distribution in the Milky Way Bulge with APOGEE
A. Rojas-Arriagada, G. Zasowski, M. Schultheis +14
We use data of 13,000 stars from the SDSS/APOGEE survey to study the shape of the bulge MDF within the region and , and spatially constr…
Planning the Future of U.S. Particle Physics (Snowmass 2013): Chapter 8: Instrumentation Frontier
M. Demarteau, R. Lipton, H. Nicholson +211
These reports present the results of the 2013 Community Summer Study of the APS Division of Particles and Fields ("Snowmass 2013") on the future program of particle physics in the…
Limited-angle TOF-PET for intraoperative surgical applications: proof of concept and first experimental data
S. Sajedi, L. Blackberg, S. Majewski +1
Intraoperative Gamma Probe (IPG) remains the current gold standard modality for sentinel lymph node identification and tumor removal in cancer patients. However, even alongside the…
Progress in Absorber R&D 2: Windows
D. M. Kaplan, E. L. Black, K. W. Cassel +16
A program is underway to develop liquid-hydrogen energy absorbers for ionization cooling of muon-beam transverse emittance. Minimization of multiple-scattering-induced beam heating…
Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics
The ATLAS Collaboration, G. Aad, E. Abat +2604
A detailed study is presented of the expected performance of the ATLAS detector. The reconstruction of tracks, leptons, photons, missing energy and jets is investigated, together w…
Progress in Absorber R&D for Muon Cooling
D. M. Kaplan, E. L. Black, M. Boghosian +19
A stored-muon-beam neutrino factory may require transverse ionization cooling of the muon beam. We describe recent progress in research and development on energy absorbers for muon…
Proposal for Cherenkov Time of Flight Technique with Picosecond Resolution
S. Majewski, A. Margaryan, L. Tang
A new particle identification device for Jlab 12 GeV program is proposed. It is based on the measurement of time information obtained by means of a new photon detector and time mea…
The BigBOSS Experiment
D. Schlegel, F. Abdalla, T. Abraham +138
BigBOSS is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment to study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure with a wide-area galaxy and quasar redshift survey…
Calibration of Binary Population Synthesis Models Using White Dwarf Binaries from APOGEE, GALEX and Gaia
A. C. Rubio, K. Breivik, C. Badenes +5
The effectiveness and stability of mass transfer in binaries system are crucial in determining its final product. Rapid binary population synthesis (BPS) codes simplify the complex…
Tidal Streams around External Galaxies
M. Pohlen, D. Martinez-Delgado, S. Majewski +3
We have the unique opportunity to observe and model nearby streams around the two large Local Group spirals Milky Way and M31 in great detail. However, the detection of streams aro…
The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview and Clusters Without Previous HST Photometry
Ata Sarajedini, L. Bedin, B. Chaboyer +10
We present the first results of a large ACS Survey of Galactic globular clusters. This Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury project is designed to obtain photometry with S/N > ~10…
Starcounts Redivivus II: Deep Starcounts with Keck and HST and the Luminosity Function of the Galactic Halo
I. N. Reid, Lin Yan, S. Majewski +2
We have combined deep starcount data with Galaxy model predictions to investigate how effectively such measurements probe the faint end of the halo luminosity function. We have tes…
Two Ultra-Faint Milky Way Stellar Systems Discovered in Early Data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey
S. Mau, W. Cerny, A. B. Pace +56
We report the discovery of two ultra-faint stellar systems found in early data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). The first system, Centaurus I (DELVE J1238-40…
The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. XII. Photometric Binaries along the Main-Sequence
A. P. Milone, G. Piotto, L. R. Bedin +15
The fraction of binary stars is an important ingredient to interpret globular cluster dynamical evolution and their stellar population. We investigate the properties of main-sequen…
The Qweak Experiment: A Search for New Physics at the TeV Scale via a Measurement of the Proton's Weak Charge
R. D. Carlini, J. M. Finn, S. Kowalski +83
We propose a new precision measurement of parity-violating electron scattering on the proton at very low Q^2 and forward angles to challenge predictions of the Standard Model and s…
Below 100 ps CTR using FastIC+, an ASIC including on-chip digitization for ToF-PET and beyond
D. Mazzanti, S. Gomez, J. Mauricio +19
This work presents the 8-channel FastIC+, a low-power consumption and highly configurable multi-channel front-end ASIC with internal digitization, for the readout of photo-sensors…
Discovery of an Ultra-Faint Stellar System near the Magellanic Clouds with the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) Survey
W. Cerny, A. B. Pace, A. Drlica-Wagner +29
We report the discovery of a new ultra-faint stellar system found near the Magellanic Clouds in the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) Survey. This new system, DELVE J015568…
The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. III. The Double Subgiant Branch of NGC 1851
A. P. Milone, L. R. Bedin, G. Piotto +13
Photometry with HST's ACS reveals that the subgiant branch (SGB) of the globular cluster NGC 1851 splits into two well-defined branches. If the split is due only to an age effect,…
Young [/Fe]-enhanced stars discovered by CoRoT and APOGEE: What is their origin?
C. Chiappini, F. Anders, T. S. Rodrigues +34
We report the discovery of a group of apparently young CoRoT red-giant stars exhibiting enhanced [alpha/Fe] abundance ratios (as determined from APOGEE spectra) with respect to Sol…
Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars IV: The Extended Structure of the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal
C. Palma, S. Majewski, M. Siegel +3
We present a large area photometric survey of the Ursa Minor dSph. We identify UMi giant star candidates extending to ~3 deg from the center of the dSph. Comparison to previous cat…
Experimental Investigation of Weak Non-Mesonic Decay of 10Be(Lambda)Hypernuclei at CEBAF
S. Majewski, L. Majling, A. Margaryan +1
Hypernuclei are convenient laboratory to study the baryon-baryon weak interaction and associated effective Hamiltonian. The strangeness changing process, in which a Lambda hyperon…