Publications (11)
Three years of muography at Mount Etna: results and perspectives
G. Gallo, D. Lo Presti, D. L. Bonanno +6
The Summit Craters system represents the point of maximum expression of the persistent tectonic activity at Mount Etna Volcano. The Muography of Etna Volcano (MEV) Project began in…
The MEV project: design and testing of a new high-resolution telescope for Muography of Etna Volcano
D. Lo Presti, G. Gallo, D. L. Bonanno +12
The MEV project aims at developing a muon telescope expressly designed for the muography of Etna Volcano. In particular, one of the active craters in the summit area of the volcano…
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…
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…
NURE: An ERC project to study nuclear reactions for neutrinoless double beta decay
M. Cavallaro, E. Aciksoz, L. Acosta +71
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0ν\b{eta}\b{eta}) is considered the best potential resource to determine the absolute neutrino mass scale. Moreover, if observed, it will signal th…
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…
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…
Measurement of the atmospheric muon flux with the NEMO Phase-1 detector
S. Aiello, F. Ameli, I. Amore +85
The NEMO Collaboration installed and operated an underwater detector including prototypes of the critical elements of a possible underwater km3 neutrino telescope: a four-floor tow…
Mini-phoswich and SiPM for Heavy Ion Detection
D. Carbone, P. Finocchiaro, C. Agodi +9
The possibility to use a mini-phoswich detector to identify ions in the region of Z ~ 10 is explored in the framework of the NUMEN project. The NUMEN program, aimed at the investig…
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…