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20082025
most citedPositronium Physics and Biomedical Applications

90 citations · 255 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

nucl-ex2025

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…

physics.ins-det2024★ 5 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2024

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…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 1 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2023

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…

physics.med-ph2023★ 90 cited

Positronium Physics and Biomedical Applications

Steven D. Bass, Sebastiano Mariazzi, Pawel Moskal +1

Positronium is the simplest bound state, built of an electron and a positron. Studies of positronium in vacuum and its decays in medium tell us about Quantum Electrodynamics, QED,…

physics.ins-det2023★ 6 cited

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…

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.atom-ph2022★ 28 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2021

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…

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…

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.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…

hep-ex2017★ 9 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2013★ 2 cited

Annihilation of low energy antiprotons in silicon

S. Aghion, O. Ahlén, A. S. Belov +56

The goal of the AEIS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN, is to measure directly the Earth's gravitational acceleration on antimatter. To achiev…

physics.atom-ph2008★ 21 cited

Formation Of A Cold Antihydrogen Beam in AEGIS For Gravity Measurements

G. Testera, A. S. Belov, G. Bonomi +62

The formation of the antihydrogen beam in the AEGIS experiment through the use of inhomogeneous electric fields is discussed and simulation results including the geometry of the ap…