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20142026
most citedCharacterization of the SIDDHARTA-2 luminosity monitor

29 citations · 187 across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

physics.atom-ph2026

Kaonic Atom X-ray Spectroscopy: From SIDDHARTA-2 to the EXKALIBUR Program

F. Sgaramella, L. Abbene, F. Artibani +31

X-ray spectroscopy of kaonic atoms offers a unique experimental window on the interplay between low-energy strong interaction and precision atomic physics studies. This article rev…

physics.ins-det2026

Pulse-shape discrimination with machine learning for CZT detectors at the DANE beam test facility

Simone Manti, Francesco Artibani, Leonardo Abbene +36

Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors offer versatility, operational simplicity, and room-temperature X- and gamma-ray spectroscopy, making them attractive for collider applicatio…

hep-ex2026

First measurement of kaonic deuterium X-ray transitions

Massimiliano Bazzi, Francesco Clozza, Carlo Guaraldo +38

The study of the strong interaction among hadrons at low energies remains one of the key challenges in fundamental physics because of its non-perturbative nature, which makes theor…

nucl-ex2026

High-precision measurement of the kaonic hydrogen 1s level shift and width with SIDDHARTA-2

M. Bazzi, F. Clozza, C. Guaraldo +37

Kaonic atoms provide a unique experimental probe of strong interaction in the low-energy regime. In particular, the strong-interaction-induced shift () and…

nucl-ex2026

First Kaonic Boron Isotopes Measurements with SIDDHARTA-2 at DANE

D Sirghi, M Iliescu, F Sgaramella +35

A precision measurement of X-ray transitions in kaonic boron, performed by the SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration at the DANE collider, is reported. The energies and yields of the $5g\ri…

physics.bio-ph2026

Biophoton Emission from Palm during Meditation: A Multi-Method Complexity Analysis

E. Pace, L. De Paolis, G. Felici +5

Biophotons are ultra-weak photon emissions in the visible spectrum produced by living organisms. While extensively studied in plants, germinating seeds, and cell cultures, no syste…

cs.CV2026

Perceptual misalignment of texture representations in convolutional neural networks

Ludovica de Paolis, Fabio Anselmi, Alessio Ansuini +1

Mathematical modeling of visual textures traces back to Julesz's intuition that texture perception in humans is based on local correlations between image features. An influential a…

nucl-ex2026

Kaonic Copper and Fluorine Absolute Yields Measurement with a CZT-based Detection System at DANE

Francesco Artibani, Simone Manti, Leonardo Abbene +36

\noindent In this work, new measurements of absolute X-ray yields for several transitions in kaonic copper and, for the first time, in kaonic fluorine are reported. The data were c…

physics.ins-det2025

Time-based Selection of Kaonic Atom X-ray Events with Quasi-Hemispherical CZT Detectors at the DAFNE collider

Francesco Artibani, Leonardo Abbene, Antonino Buttacavoli +37

This work presents the results of a time-based event selection for searching X-ray signals from kaonic atom X-ray transition using a single quasi-hemispherical Cadmium-Zinc-Telluri…

physics.bio-ph2025

First experimental measurements of biophotons from Astrocytes and Glioblastoma cell cultures

L. De Paolis, E. Pace, C. Mazzanti +10

Biophotons are non-thermal and non-bioluminescent ultraweak photon emissions, first hypothesised by Gurwitsch in 1924 as a regulatory mechanism in cell division, and then experimen…

nucl-ex2024★ 6 cited

High precision X-ray spectroscopy of kaonic neon

F Sgaramella, D Sirghi, K Toho +41

The high-precision kaonic neon X-ray transitions measurement performed by the SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration at the DANE collider is reported. Both the X-ray energies and yields for…

physics.ins-det2024

Kaonic lead feasibility measurement at DAΦNE to solve the charged kaon mass discrepancy

D. Bosnar, L. Abbene, C. Amsler +39

An HPGe detector equipped with a transistor reset preamplifier and readout with a CAEN DT5781 fast pulse digitizer was employed in the measurement of X-rays from kaonic lead at the…

physics.bio-ph2024

Biophotons: A Hard Problem

L. De Paolis, R. Francini, I. Davoli +8

About a hundred years ago the Russian biologist A. Gurwitsch, based on his experiments with onion plants by measuring their growth rate, made the hypothesis that plants emitted a w…

physics.ins-det2023★ 1 cited

SIDDHARTA-2 apparatus for kaonic atoms research on the DANE collider

F. Sirghi, F. Sgaramella, L. Abbene +41

SIDDHARTA-2 represents a state-of-the-art experiment designed to perform dedicated measurements of kaonic atoms, which are particular exotic atom configurations composed of a negat…

nucl-ex2023★ 3 cited

First measurement of kaonic helium-4 M-series transitions

F Sgaramella, D Sirghi, L Abbene +40

In this paper we present the results of a new kaonic helium-4 measurement with a 1.37 g/l gaseous target by the SIDDHARTA-2 experiment at the DAΦNE collider. We measured, for the f…

physics.ins-det2023

CdZnTe detectors tested at the DAΦNE collider for future kaonic atoms measurements

A. Scordo, L. Abbene, F. Artibani +42

The SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration at the INFN Laboratories of Frascati (LNF) aims to perform groundbreaking measurements on kaonic atoms. In parallel and beyond the ongoing kaonic deut…

physics.ins-det2023★ 2 cited

Novel Machine Learning and Differentiable Programming Techniques applied to the VIP-2 Underground Experiment

F Napolitano, M Bazzi, M Bragadireanu +20

In this work, we present novel Machine Learning and Differentiable Programming enhanced calibration techniques used to improve the energy resolution of the Silicon Drift Detectors…

nucl-ex2023★ 10 cited

Measurements of high-n transitions in intermediate mass kaonic atoms by SIDDHARTA-2 at DANE

F. Sgaramella, M. Tüchler, C. Amsler +38

The SIDDHARTA-2 experiment installed at the DANE collider of INFN-LNF performed, for the first time, measurements of high-n transitions in intermediate mass kaonic atoms…

physics.ins-det2023★ 11 cited

New opportunities for kaonic atoms measurements from CdZnTe detectors

L. Abbene, M. Bettelli, A. Buttacavoli +42

We present the tests performed by the SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration at the DAΦNE collider with a quasi-hemispherical CdZnTe detector. The very good room-temperature energy resolution a…

hep-th2022★ 13 cited

Experimental test of Non-Commutative Quantum Gravity by VIP-2 Lead

Kristian Piscicchia, Andrea Addazi, Antonino Marciano +18

Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) violations induced by space-time non-commutativity, a class of universality for several models of Quantum Gravity, are investigated by the VIP-2 Lea…

hep-th2022★ 19 cited

Strongest atomic physics bounds on Non-Commutative Quantum Gravity Models

Kristian Piscicchia, Andrea Addazi, Antonino Marciano +18

Investigations of possible violations of the Pauli Exclusion Principle represent critical tests of the microscopic space-time structure and properties. Space-time non-commutativity…

physics.ins-det2022

Studies of the linearity and stability of Silicon Drift Detectors for kaonic atoms X-ray spectroscopy

A. Khreptak, C. Amsler, M. Bazzi +36

The SIDDHARTA-2 experiment at the DANE collider aims to perform precision measurements of kaonic atoms X-ray spectroscopy for the investigation of the antikaon-nucleon strong in…

physics.ins-det2022

First tests of the full SIDDHARTA-2 experimental apparatus with a 4 He gaseous target

A. Scordo, C. Amsler, M. Bazzi +38

In this paper, we present the first tests performed after the full installation of the SIDDHARTA-2 experimental apparatus on the Interaction Region of the DAΦNE collider at the INF…

physics.ins-det2022★ 17 cited

The SIDDHARTA-2 calibration method for high precision kaonic atoms X-ray spectroscopy measurements

F Sgaramella, M Miliucci, M Bazzi +29

The SIDDHARTA-2 experiment at the DANE collider aims to perform the first kaonic deuterium X-ray transitions to the fundamental level measurement, with a systematic error at the…