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The Amerigo Vespucci as a traveling laboratory for studying the cosmic-ray fluxes at sea level
Davide Cerasole, Federica Cuna, Gaia De Palma +13
We have installed and operated a plastic scintillator detector counter to measure the flux of cosmic radiation during the 2023-2025 tour of the historical vessel Amerigo Vespucci.…
Development of a Cherenkov-Based Time-of-Flight Detector Using Silicon Photomultipliers
Liliana Congedo, Giuseppe De Robertis, Antonio Di Mauro +11
The aim of this work is to develop high precision Time-of-Flight (TOF) devices based on high refractive index solid Cherenkov radiators read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs)…
Efficient and precise Cherenkov-based charged particle timing using SiPMs
M. N. Mazziotta, A. Di Mauro, M. Giliberti +7
Dedicated R&D efforts are currently underway to couple a thin Cherenkov radiator to Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays for precise charged particle Time-of-Flight (ToF) measurem…
A SiPM-Based RICH Detector with Timing Capabilities for Isotope Identification
M. N. Mazziotta, L. Congedo, G. De Robertis +7
In this work, we present a novel compact particle identification (PID) detector concept based on Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) optimized to perform combined Ring-Imaging Cherenk…
Test beam performance of a novel RICH detector with timing capabilities for the future ALICE~3 PID system at LHC
M. N. Mazziotta, L. Congedo, G. De Robertis +9
The ALICE Collaboration is proposing a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Run 5 and beyond. A key subsystem for charged particle identification will be a Ring-Imaging C…
Development of a novel compact and fast SiPM-based RICH detector for the future ALICE 3 PID system at LHC
M. N. Mazziotta, A. R. Altamura, L. Congedo +12
A dedicated R\&D is ongoing for the charged particle identification system of the \mbox{ALICE 3} experiment proposed for the LHC Run 5 and beyond. One of the subsystems for the hig…
Charge-dependent spectral softenings of primary cosmic-rays below the knee
DAMPE Collaboration, Francesca Alemanno, Qi An +146
In most particle acceleration or propagation theories, the characteristic features of the cosmic ray spectra due to acceleration limits or propagation phase changes are charge depe…
The simulation chain for the Terzina Cherenkov telescope on board the NUSES space mission
M. Abdullahi, R. Aloisio, F. Arneodo +74
The Terzina telescope is designed to detect ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and Earth-skimming neutrinos from a 550 km low-Earth orbit (LEO) by observing Cherenkov light emi…
Observation of a spectral hardening in cosmic ray boron spectrum with the DAMPE space mission
DAMPE Collaboration, F. Alemanno, C. Altomare +143
Secondary cosmic ray fluxes are important probes of the propagation and interaction of high-energy particles in the Galaxy. Recent measurements of primary and secondary cosmic ray…
The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars
David A. Smith, Philippe Bruel, Colin J. Clark +156
We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio…
The EXTRA-BL4S experiment for the measurement of the energy and angular distributions of transition radiation X-rays
M. N. Mazziotta, F. Loparco, A. Anelli +18
We have designed and implemented an experiment to measure the angular distributions and the energy spectra of the transition radiation X-rays emitted by fast electrons and positron…
Constraints on dark matter scattering with long lived mediators from observations of the Sun with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
D. Serini, F. Loparco, M. N. Mazziotta +6
The Sun represents a promising target for indirect dark matter searches, as dark matter particles from the Galactic halo can be gravitationally trapped in its core or in external o…
FLUKA cross sections for cosmic-ray interactions with the DRAGON2 code
Pedro de la Torre Luque, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Alfredo Ferrari +3
Secondary particles produced in spallation reactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas provide valuable information that allow us to investigate the injection and transport…
Gamma-rays from young radio galaxies and quasars
Giacomo Principe, Leonardo Di Venere, Monica Orienti +4
According to radiative models, radio galaxies and quasars are predicted to produce gamma rays from the earliest stages of their evolution. Exploring their high-energy emission is c…
Implications of current nuclear cross sections on secondary cosmic rays with the upcoming DRAGON2 code
Pedro de la Torre Luque, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Francesco Loparco +2
Current measurements of cosmic-ray fluxes have reached unprecedented accuracy thanks to the new generation of experiments, and in particular the AMS-02 mission. At the same time, s…
Search for dark matter signatures in the gamma-ray emission towards the Sun with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
M. N. Mazziotta, F. Loparco, D. Serini +4
Dark matter particles from the Galactic halo can be gravitationally trapped in the solar core or in external orbits. The enhanced density of dark matter particles either in the sol…
A Search for Cosmic-ray Proton Anisotropy with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
LAT Collaboration
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has amassed a large data set of primary cosmic-ray protons throughout its mission. The LAT's wide field of view and full-sky survey capabilitie…
Multi-messenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A
The IceCube, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC +13
Individual astrophysical sources previously detected in neutrinos are limited to the Sun and the supernova 1987A, whereas the origins of the diffuse flux of high-energy cosmic neut…
Status Report of the MACRO Experiment for the year 2001
G. Giacomelli, A. Margiotta
In this 2001 status report of the MACRO experiment, results are presented on atmospheric neutrinos and neutrino oscillations, high energy neutrino astronomy, searches for WIMPs, se…
Transition Radiation Detector in MACRO
M. N. Mazziotta
The MACRO detector is located in the Gran Sasso Laboratory. MACRO's overburden varies from 3150 to 7000 hg/cm^2. A transition radiation detector (TRD) has been added to the MACRO d…