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most citedMeasuring nonclassicality with Silicon photomultipliers

30 citations · 168 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.ins-det2025

Energy Response and Resolution to Positrons in a Capillary-Tube Dual-Readout Calorimeter

Sebastiano Francesco Albergo, Alessandro Braghieri, Alexander Burdyko +22

We present the results of a test beam campaign on a capillary-tube fibre-based dual-readout calorimeter, designed for precise hadronic and electromagnetic energy measurements in fu…

physics.ins-det2023

Exposing a fibre-based dual-readout calorimeter to a positron beam

N. Ampilogov, S. Cometti, J. Agarwala +14

A prototype of a dual-readout calorimeter using brass capillary tubes surrounding scintillating and clear plastic optical fibres was tested using beams of particles with energies b…

physics.ins-det2022★ 7 cited

A cryogenic tracking detector for antihydrogen detection in the AEgIS experiment

C. Amsler, M. Antonello, A. Belov +55

We present the commissioning of the Fast Annihilation Cryogenic Tracker detector (FACT), installed around the antihydrogen production trap inside the 1 T superconducting magnet of…

physics.ins-det2022

Dual-Readout Calorimetry for Future Experiments Probing Fundamental Physics

I. Pezzotti, Harvey Newman, J. Freeman +22

In this White Paper for the 2021 Snowmass process, we detail the status and prospects for dual-readout calorimetry. While all calorimeters allow estimation of energy depositions in…

physics.ins-det2019★ 5 cited

Assessment of the potential of SiPM-based systems for bioluminescence detection

S. Lomazzi, M. Caccia, C. Distasi +6

Bioluminescence detection requires single-photon sensitivity, extremely low detection limits and wide dynamic range. Such performances were traditionally assured by photomultiplier…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 23 cited

Rydberg-positronium velocity and self-ionization studies in 1T magnetic field and cryogenic environment

M. Antonello, A. Belov, G. Bonomi R. S. Brusa +43

We characterized the pulsed Rydberg-positronium production inside the AEgIS (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) apparatus in view of antihydrogen formati…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 10 cited

Efficient positronium production by stimulated decay from the level

M. Antonello, A. Belov, G. Bonomi +48

We investigate experimentally the possibility of enhancing the production of positronium atoms by driving the - and - transitions, overcoming the nat…

quant-ph2018

Optimizing Silicon photomultipliers for Quantum Optics

Giovanni Chesi, Luca Malinverno, Alessia Allevi +4

Silicon Photomultipliers are potentially ideal detectors for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information studies based on mesoscopic states of light. However, their non-idealities hampe…

quant-ph2018★ 30 cited

Measuring nonclassicality with Silicon photomultipliers

Giovanni Chesi, Luca Malinverno, Alessia Allevi +3

Detector stochastic deviations from an ideal response can hamper the measurement of quantum properties of light especially in the mesoscopic regime where photon-number resolution i…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 28 cited

Velocity selected production of metastable positronium

C. Amsler, M. Antonello, A. Belov +52

Positronium in the metastable state exhibits a low electrical polarizability and a long lifetime (1140 ns) making it a promising candidate for interferometry experiments wit…

physics.ins-det2018★ 30 cited

Tests of a dual-readout fiber calorimeter with SiPM light sensors

M. Antonello, M. Caccia, M. Cascella +16

In this paper, we describe the first tests of a dual-readout fiber calorimeter in which silicon photomultipliers are used to sense the (scintillation and Cherenkov) light signals.…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 25 cited

Producing long-lived Ps via laser excitation in magnetic and electric fields

S. Aghion, C. Amsler, M. Antonello +62

Producing positronium (Ps) in the metastable state is of interest for various applications in fundamental physics. We report here about an experiment in which Ps atom…

physics.ins-det2013★ 9 cited

An Educational Kit Based on a Modular Silicon Photomultiplier System

V. Arosio, M. Caccia, V. Chmill +7

Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPM) are state of the art light detectors with unprecedented single photon sensitivity and photon number resolving capability, representing a breakthrou…

nucl-ex2005★ 1 cited

Beam Test Performance and Simulation of Prototypes for the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector

Jan Conrad

The silicon pixel detector (SPD) of the ALICE experiment in preparation at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is designed to provide the precise vertex reconstruction needed f…