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R&D on a high-performance electromagnetic calorimeter based on oriented crystalline scintillators
M. Soldani, N. Argiolas, L. Bandiera +36
Although inorganic scintillators are widely used in the design of electromagnetic calorimeters for high-energy physics and astrophysics, their crystalline nature and, hence, their…
High-Precision Alignment Techniques for Realizing an Ultracompact Electromagnetic Calorimeters Using Oriented high-Z Scintillator Crystals
Lorenzo Malagutti, Alessia Selmi, Laura Bandiera +29
Electromagnetic calorimeters used in high-energy physics and astrophysics rely heavily on high-Z inorganic scintillators, such as lead tungstate (PbWO4 or PWO). The crystalline str…
Beam test, simulation, and performance evaluation of PbF and PWO-UF crystals with SiPM readout for a semi-homogeneous calorimeter prototype with longitudinal segmentation
C. Cantone, S. Carsi, S. Ceravolo +15
Crilin (Crystal Calorimeter with Longitudinal Information) is a semi-homogeneous, longitudinally segmented electromagnetic calorimeter based on high-, ultra-fast crystals with U…
A high-performance custom photodetection system to probe the light yield enhancement in oriented crystals
M. Soldani, L. Bandiera, L. Bomben +16
Scintillating homogeneous detectors represent the state of the art in electromagnetic calorimetry. Moreover, the currently neglected crystalline nature of the most common inorganic…
A Portable Cosmic Ray Detector for School Education
Luca Bomben, Stefano Capelli, Chiara Fanzini +7
This article describes the design, assembly and characterization of a portable cosmic ray detector, developed by the INSULAB group and suitable for teaching activities aimed at hig…
Muon detection in electron-positron annihilation for muon collider studies
N. Amapane, M. Antonelli, F. Anulli +43
The investigation of the energy frontier in physics requires novel concepts for future colliders. The idea of a muon collider is very appealing since it would allow to study partic…
The ENUBET positron tagger prototype: construction and testbeam performance
F. Acerbi, M. Bonesini, F. Bramati +50
A prototype for the instrumented decay tunnel of ENUBET was tested in 2018 at the CERN East Area facility with charged particles up to 5 GeV. This detector is a longitudinal sampli…
Decay tunnel instrumentation for the ENUBET neutrino beam
F. Acerbi, A. Berra, M. Bonesini +56
The uncertainty in the initial neutrino flux is the main limitation for a precise determination of the absolute neutrino cross section. The ERC funded ENUBET project (2016-2021) is…
Polysiloxane-based scintillators for shashlik calorimeters
F. Acerbi, A. Branca, C. Brizzolari +46
We present the first application of polysiloxane-based scintillators as active medium in a shashlik sampling calorimeter. These results were obtained from a testbeam campaign of a…
The ENUBET narrow band neutrino beam
ENUBET Collaboration, M. Tenti, F. Acerbi +54
The narrow band beam of ENUBET is the first implementation of the "monitored neutrino beam" technique proposed in 2015. ENUBET has been designed to monitor lepton production in the…
Identification of particles with Lorentz factor up to with Transition Radiation Detectors based on micro-strip silicon detectors
J. Alozy, N. Belyaev, M. Campbell +39
This work is dedicated to the study of a technique for hadron identification in the TeV momentum range, based on the simultaneous measurement of the energies and of the emission an…
Irradiation and performance of RGB-HD Silicon Photomultipliers for calorimetric applications
F. Acerbi, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +41
Silicon Photomultipliers with cell-pitch ranging from 12 m to 20 m were tested against neutron irradiation at moderate fluences to study their performance for calorimetric ap…
A high precision neutrino beam for a new generation of short baseline experiments
F. Acerbi, G. Ballerini, S. Bolognesi +53
The current generation of short baseline neutrino experiments is approaching intrinsic source limitations in the knowledge of flux, initial neutrino energy and flavor. A dedicated…
Shashlik calorimeters: novel compact prototypes for the ENUBET experiment
M. Pari, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +50
We summarize in this paper the detector R&D performed in the framework of the ERC ENUBET Project. We discuss in particular the latest results on longitudinally segmented shashlik c…
A narrow band neutrino beam with high precision flux measurements
A. Coffani, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +49
The ENUBET facility is a proposed narrow band neutrino beam where lepton production is monitored at single particle level in the instrumented decay tunnel. This facility addresses…
Strong reduction of the effective radiation length in an axially oriented scintillator crystal
L. Bandiera, V. V. Tikhomirov, M. Romagnoni +14
We measured a considerable increase of the emitted radiation by 120 GeV/c electrons in an axially oriented lead tungstate scintillator crystal, if compared to the case in which the…
Testbeam performance of a shashlik calorimeter with fine-grained longitudinal segmentation
G. Ballerini, A. Berra, R. Boanta +34
An iron- plastic-scintillator shashlik calorimeter with a 4.3 longitudinal segmentation was tested in November 2016 at the CERN East Area facility with charged particles up t…
The design and construction of the MICE Electron-Muon Ranger
R. Asfandiyarov, P. Bene, A. Blondel +18
The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a fully-active tracking-calorimeter installed in the beam line of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE). The experiment will demonstrate i…
A compact light readout system for longitudinally segmented shashlik calorimeters
A. Berra, C. Brizzolari, S. Cecchini +17
The longitudinal segmentation of shashlik calorimeters is challenged by dead zones and non-uniformities introduced by the light collection and readout system. This limitation can b…
SuperB Technical Design Report
SuperB Collaboration, M. Baszczyk, P. Dorosz +406
In this Technical Design Report (TDR) we describe the SuperB detector that was to be installed on the SuperB e+e- high luminosity collider. The SuperB asymmetric collider, which wa…
Characterization of a tagged -ray beam line at the DANE Beam Test Facility
P. W. Cattaneo, A. Argan, F. Boffelli +64
At the core of the AGILE scientific instrument, designed to operate on a satellite, there is the Gamma Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) consisting of a Silicon Tracker (ST), a Cesium Io…