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A search for with the first dataset of the MEG II experiment
MEG II collaboration, K. Afanaciev, A. M. Baldini +79
The MEG II experiment, based at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, reports the result of a search for the decay from data taken in the first physics run in 20…
Operation and performance of MEG II detector
MEG II Collaboration, K. Afanaciev, A. M. Baldini +82
The MEG II experiment, located at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland, is the successor to the MEG experiment, which completed data taking in 2013. MEG II started fully…
ATHENA X-IFU Demonstration Model: First joint operation of the main TES Array and its Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC)
M. D'Andrea, K. Ravensberg, A. Argan +28
The X-IFU is the cryogenic spectrometer onboard the future ATHENA X-ray observatory. It is based on a large array of TES microcalorimeters, which works in combination with a Cryoge…
The Search for with 10 Sensitivity: the Upgrade of the MEG Experiment
The MEG II Collaboration, Alessandro M. Baldini, Vladimir Baranov +67
The MEG experiment took data at the Paul Scherrer Institute in the years 2009--2013 to test the violation of the lepton flavour conservation law, which originates from an accidenta…
The large scale polarization explorer (LSPE) for CMB measurements: performance forecast
The LSPE collaboration, G. Addamo, P. A. R. Ade +102
[Abridged] The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is one of the current frontiers in cosmology. In particular, the detection of the primor…
Progress report on the Large Scale Polarization Explorer
L. Lamagna, G. Addamo, P. A. R. Ade +96
The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Back…
Search for lepton flavour violating muon decay mediated by a new light particle in the MEG experiment
A. M. Baldini, F. Berg, M. Biasotti +68
We present the first direct search for lepton flavour violating muon decay mediated by a new light particle X, . This search uses…
The Demonstration Model of the ATHENA X-IFU Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector
Matteo D'Andrea, Claudio Macculi, Guido Torrioli +11
The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC) of ATHENA X-IFU is designed to reduce the particle background of the instrument and to enable the mission science goals. It is a 4 p…
Working principle and demonstrator of microwave-multiplexing for the HOLMES experiment microcalorimeters
D. T. Becker, D. A. Bennett, M. Biasotti +21
The determination of the neutrino mass is an open issue in modern particle physics and astrophysics. The direct mass measurement is the only theory-unrelated experimental tool capa…
Neutrino physics with the PTOLEMY project: active neutrino properties and the light sterile case
PTOLEMY collaboration, M. G. Betti, M. Biasotti +54
The PTOLEMY project aims to develop a scalable design for a Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) detector, the first of its kind and the only one conceived that can look directly at th…
A Design for an Electromagnetic Filter for Precision Energy Measurements at the Tritium Endpoint
M. G. Betti, M. Biasotti, A. Bosca +48
We present a detailed description of the electromagnetic filter for the PTOLEMY project to directly detect the Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB). Starting with an initial estimate f…
Results from Pilot Run for MEG II Positron Timing Counter
M. Nakao, A. De Bari, M. Biasotti +15
The MEG II experiment at Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland will search for the lepton flavour violating muon decay, , with a sensitivity of impro…
PTOLEMY: A Proposal for Thermal Relic Detection of Massive Neutrinos and Directional Detection of MeV Dark Matter
E. Baracchini, M. G. Betti, M. Biasotti +48
We propose to achieve the proof-of-principle of the PTOLEMY project to directly detect the Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB). Each of the technological challenges described in [1,2]…
Status of the HOLMES Experiment to Directly Measure the Neutrino Mass
A. Nucciotti, B. Alpert, M. Balata +35
The assessment of neutrino absolute mass scale is still a crucial challenge in today particle physics and cosmology. Beta or electron capture spectrum end-point study is currently…
The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector for ATHENA X-IFU: improvement of the test setup towards the Demonstration Model
Matteo D'Andrea, Claudio Macculi, Andrea Argan +8
The ATHENA X-IFU development program foresees to build and characterize an instrument Demonstration Model (DM), in order to probe the system critical technologies before the missio…
The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector for ATHENA X-IFU: assessing the role of the athermal phonons collectors in the AC-S8 prototype
Matteo D'Andrea, Claudio Macculi, Andrea Argan +7
The ATHENA X-ray Observatory is the second large-class mission in the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 science programme. One of the two on-board instruments is the X-IFU, an imaging sp…
The Cryogenic Anticoincidence Detector for ATHENA X-IFU: Preliminary test of AC-S9 towards the Demonstration Model
Matteo D'Andrea, Claudio Macculi, Andrea Argan +9
Our team is developing the Cryogenic Anticoincidence Detector (CryoAC) of the ATHENA X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU). It is a 4-pixels TES-based detector, which will be placed le…
The design of the MEG II experiment
A. M. Baldini, E. Baracchini, C. Bemporad +72
The MEG experiment, designed to search for the mu+->e+ gamma decay at a 10^-13 sensitivity level, completed data taking in 2013. In order to increase the sensitivity reach of the e…
Muon polarization in the MEG experiment: predictions and measurements
A. M. Baldini, Y. Bao, E. Baracchini +67
The MEG experiment makes use of one of the world's most intense low energy muon beams, in order to search for the lepton flavour violating process …
HOLMES - The Electron Capture Decay of 163Ho to Measure the Electron Neutrino Mass with sub-eV sensitivity
B. Alpert, M. Balata, D. Bennett +35
The European Research Council has recently funded HOLMES, a new experiment to directly measure the neutrino mass. HOLMES will perform a calorimetric measurement of the energy relea…
Measurement of the radiative decay of polarized muons in the MEG experiment
MEG Collaboration, A. M. Baldini, Y. Bao +68
We studied the radiative muon decay by using for the first time an almost fully polarized muon source. We identified a large sample (~13000) of these decays in…
The Hot and Energetic Universe: The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) for Athena+
D. Barret, J. W. den Herder, L. Piro +55
The Athena+ mission concept is designed to implement the Hot and Energetic Universe science theme submitted to the European Space Agency in response to the call for White Papers fo…