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Background of the BULLKID detector array operated with moderate shield on surface
D. Delicato, A. Acevedo-Rentería, M. Folcarelli +42
We present the operation with moderate radiation shield in a surface laboratory of BULLKID (BULky and Low-threshold Kinetic Inductance Detector), a cryogenic detector for searches…
Projected sensitivity to light WIMP-like particles of the BULLKID-DM experiment
Matteo Folcarelli, A. Acevedo-Rentería, L. E. Ardila-Perez +39
BULLKID-DM is an experiment designed for the direct searches of particle dark matter candidates with mass around 1 GeV, or below, and cross-section with nucleons smaller than $10^{…
Real-Time Readout System Design for the BULLKID-DM Experiment: Enhancing Dark Matter Search Capabilities
T. Muscheid, R. Gartmann, L. E. Ardila-Perez +41
The BULLKID-DM experiment aims to detect WIMP-like potential Dark Matter particles with masses below 1 GeV/c^2. Sensing these particles is challenging, as it requires nuclear recoi…
Energy calibration of bulk events in the BULLKID detector
M. Folcarelli, D. Delicato, A. Acevedo-Rentería +39
BULLKID is a cryogenic, solid-state detector designed for direct searches of particle Dark Matter candidates, with mass GeV/c, and coherent neutrino-nucleus scatte…
Spectrometry of Captured Highly Charged Ions Produced Following Antiproton Annihilations
F. P. Gustafsson, M. Volponi, J. Zielinski +61
We report a proof-of-principle study demonstrating the first capture and time-of-flight spectrometry of highly charged ions (HCIs) produced following antiproton annihilations in a…
AEgIS Experiment at CERN: Design and Commissioning of SARA (Scintillator Assemblies to Reveal Annihilations)
P. Conte, G. Consolati, M. Prata +12
SARA is the system of plastic scintillators coupled with silicon photomultipliers that will take part in the AEgIS experiment at CERN, measuring the time-of-flight of antihydrogen…
CERN AD/ELENA Antimatter Program
R. Caravita, A. Cridland Mathad, J. S. Hangst +6
The CERN AD/ELENA Antimatter program studies the fundamental charge, parity, time (CPT) reversal invariance through high-precision studies of antiprotons, antihydrogen, and antipro…
TALOS (Total Automation of LabVIEW Operations for Science): A framework for autonomous control systems for complex experiments
M. Volponi, J. Zieliński, T. Rauschendorfer +52
Modern physics experiments are frequently very complex, relying on multiple simultaneous events to happen in order to obtain the desired result. The experiment control system plays…
Real-time antiproton annihilation vertexing with sub-micron resolution
M. Berghold, D. Orsucci, F. Guatieri +63
The primary goal of the AEgIS experiment is to precisely measure the free fall of antihydrogen within Earth's gravitational field. To this end, a cold ~50K antihydrogen beam has to…
Perspectives from a cold antideuteron beam in the AD/ELENA facility
Ruggero Caravita
The perspectives opened by the development of a low-energy antideuteron beam are here reviewed: precision measurements of the antideuteron properties; formation and spectroscopic a…
Positronium laser cooling via the - transition with a broadband laser pulse
L. T. Glöggler, N. Gusakova, B. Rienäcker +49
We report on laser cooling of a large fraction of positronium (Ps) in free-flight by strongly saturating the - transition with a broadband, long-pulsed 243 nm alexandri…
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…
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…
AEgIS: Status and Prospects
Ruggero Caravita
The progresses of the AEgIS collaboration on its way towards directly measuring the gravitational free-fall of neutral antimatter atoms are reviewed. The experiment recently develo…
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…
Toward inertial sensing with a monochromatic positronium beam
Sebastiano Mariazzi, Ruggero Caravita, Michael Doser +2
In this work, we discuss the possibility of inertial sensing with positronium in the metastable state for the measurement of optical dipole, relativistic and gravitational…
A fiber detector to monitor ortho-Ps formation and decay
Benjamin Rienäcker, Roberto Sennen Brusa, Ruggero Caravita +4
We describe a novel method to use a scintillating fiber detector similar to the Fast Annihilation Cryogenic Tracking (FACT) used at the antimatter experiment AEgIS to monitor the p…
PeopleTraffic: a common framework for harmonizing privacy and epidemic risks
Ruggero Caravita
PeopleTraffic is a proposed initiative to develop a real-time, open-data population density mapping tool open to public institutions, private companies and the civil society, provi…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Measurement of antiproton annihilation on Cu, Ag and Au with emulsion films
S. Aghion, C. Amsler, A. Ariga +69
The characteristics of low energy antiproton annihilations on nuclei (e.g. hadronization and product multiplicities) are not well known, and Monte Carlo simulation packages that us…
Cross Section for Rydberg Antihydrogen Production via Charge Exchange Between Rydberg Positronium and Antiprotons in Magnetic Field
D. Krasnicky, R. Caravita, C. Canali +1
The antihydrogen formation by charge exchange between cold antiprotons and Rydberg positronium Ps is studied by using the Classical Trajectory Monte Carlo (CTMC) method.