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Pulse-shape discrimination with machine learning for CZT detectors at the DANE beam test facility
Simone Manti, Francesco Artibani, Leonardo Abbene +36
Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors offer versatility, operational simplicity, and room-temperature X- and gamma-ray spectroscopy, making them attractive for collider applicatio…
Experimental determination of the Dalitz plot for positronium decay using the J-PET detection system
Magdalena Skurzok, Steven D. Bass, Kamila Kasperska +37
We present the first measurements of the Dalitz plot for ortho-positronium annihilation to three photons. Our measurements, accurate to about 3% statistical and 2-3% systematic unc…
First-in-human quantum entanglement imaging
Pawel Moskal, Deepak Kumar, Sushil Sharma +37
Annihilation photons are quantum-entangled in polarization, a phenomenon that has not been exploited in medical diagnostics so far. We present the first in vivo imaging of the degr…
First ex-vivo positronium imaging of tissues with modular J-PET scanner using Sc radionuclide
Karol Kubat, Manish Das, Sushil Sharma +41
This study presents the first ex-vivo positronium imaging of human tissues using the modular J-PET scanner with the Sc radionuclide. The Sc isotope was produced via t…
Feasibility study of the positronium lifetime imaging with the Biograph Vision Quadra and J-PET tomographs
Szymon Parzych, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Ermias Yitayew Beyene +39
Background: After its first ex-vivo and in-vivo demonstration, Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) has received considerable interest as a potential new diagnostic biomarker. High s…
First Positronium Lifetime Imaging using Mn and Co with a plastic-based PET scanner
Manish Das, Sushil Sharma, Ermias Yitayew Beyene +45
Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) extends positron emission tomography by using the lifetime of positronium atoms as a probe of tissue molecular architecture. In this work, we rep…
Studies of CPT symmetry in positronium decays with 192 plastic strip J-PET detector
N. Chug, S. D. Bass, E. Y. Beyene +40
A direct test of the CPT symmetry is performed for the electromagnetic decays of ortho-positronium using the J-PET tomograph. We present the precise measurement of the CPT-sensitiv…
First experimental measurements of biophotons from Astrocytes and Glioblastoma cell cultures
L. De Paolis, E. Pace, C. Mazzanti +10
Biophotons are non-thermal and non-bioluminescent ultraweak photon emissions, first hypothesised by Gurwitsch in 1924 as a regulatory mechanism in cell division, and then experimen…
First positronium imaging using Sc with the J-PET scanner: a case study on the NEMA-Image Quality phantom
Manish Das, Sushil Sharma, Aleksander Bilewicz +41
Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI), an emerging extension of conventional positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, offers a novel window for probing the submolecular properties…
First Linearity and Stability Characterization for CZT Detection System in a ee Collider Environment
Leonardo Abbene, Francesco Artibani, Manuele Bettelli +40
The SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration built a new cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT, CdZnTe)-based X-ray detection system, used for the first time in the DANE electron-positron collider at IN…
Nanoporosity imaging by positronium lifetime tomography
K. Dulski, E. Beyene, N. Chug +25
Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) is a well-established non-destructive technique used for nanostructural characterization of porous materials. It is based on the…
Investigation of Novel Preclinical Total Body PET Designed With J-PET Technology:A Simulation Study
M. Dadgar, S. Parzych, F. Tayefi Ardebili +29
The growing interest in human-grade total body positron emission tomography (PET) systems has also application in small animal research. Due to the existing limitations in human-ba…
Comparative studies of plastic scintillator strips with high technical attenuation length for the total-body J-PET scanner
L. Kaplon, J. Baran, N. Chug +31
Plastic scintillator strips are considered as one of the promising solutions for the cost-effective construction of total-body positron emission tomography, (PET) system. The purpo…
Search for Pauli Exclusion Principle Violations with Gator at LNGS
L. Baudis, R. Biondi, A. Bismark +8
The Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) appears from fundamental symmetries in quantum field theories, but its physical origin is still to be understood. High-precision experimental se…
Non-maximal entanglement of photons from positron-electron annihilation demonstrated using a novel plastic PET scanner
P. Moskal, D. Kumar, S. Sharma +25
In state-of-the-art Positron Emission Tomography (PET), information about annihilation photon polarization is unavailable. Here, we present a PET scanner built from plastic scintil…
Biophotons: A Hard Problem
L. De Paolis, R. Francini, I. Davoli +8
About a hundred years ago the Russian biologist A. Gurwitsch, based on his experiments with onion plants by measuring their growth rate, made the hypothesis that plants emitted a w…
Discrete symmetries tested at 10 precision using linear polarization of photons from positronium annihilations
Paweł Moskal, Eryk Czerwiński, Juhi Raj +38
Discrete symmetries play an important role in particle physics with violation of CP connected to the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe. We report the most precise test of…
Feasibility studies for imaging ee annihilation with modular multi-strip detectors
S. Sharma, L. Povolo, S. Mariazzi +41
Studies based on imaging the annihilation of the electron (e) and its antiparticle positron (e) open up several interesting applications in nuclear medicine and fundame…
Comparative studies of the sensitivities of sparse and full geometries of Total-Body PET scanners built from crystals and plastic scintillators
Meysam Dadgar, Szymon Parzych, Jakub Baran +28
Background: Total-Body imaging offers high sensitivity, single-bed position, and low dose, but high construction costs limit worldwide utilization. This study compares existing and…
A Time Projection Chamber to Search for Feebly Interacting Bosons via Proton Induced Nuclear Reactions
Martin Sevior, Michael Baker, Lindsey Bignell +7
We propose a new Time Projection Chamber particle detector (TPC) to search for the existence of feebly-interacting bosons and to investigate the existence of the X17 boson, propose…
TOF MLEM Adaptation for the Total-Body J-PET with a Realistic Analytical System Response Matrix
R. Y. Shopa, J. Baran, K. Klimaszewski +32
We report a study of the original image reconstruction algorithm based on the time-of-flight maximum likelihood expectation maximisation (TOF MLEM), developed for the total-body (T…
J-PET detection modules based on plastic scintillators for performing studies with positron and positronium beams
S. Sharma, J. Baran, R. S. Brusa +33
The J-PET detector, which consists of inexpensive plastic scintillators, has demonstrated its potential in the study of fundamental physics. In recent years, a prototype with 192 p…
On the linear friction many-body equation for dissipative spontaneous wavefunction collapse
Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Matteo Carlesso, Kristian Piscicchia +3
We construct and study the simplest universal dissipative Lindblad master equation for many-body systems with the purpose of a new dissipative extension of existing nonrelativistic…
Snowmass 2021 Topical Report on Synergies in Research at Underground Facilities
Catalina Curceanu, Derek Elsworth, Joe Formaggio +6
This is a Snowmass 2021 Topical Report for the Underground Facilities and Infrastructure Frontier on Synergies in Research at Underground Facilities: A broad range of scientific an…